![]() On the planet Rada, Meli Galdes' family is of minor rank, and were relying on her marriage to Celino, the razor-smart, ruthless leader of the powerful Carvanna empire. The struggle for power is a bloody, full-contact sport: in business, on the battlefield.and sometimes in the bedroom.Silent BladeOld hatreds die hard. ![]() They are their own country, their own rulers, and their only limits are other Kinsmen. In a distant, future world Kinsmen-small powerful groups of genetically and technologically advanced families-control vast financial empires. ![]() ** PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED - This is an anthology edition of the Kinsmen Universe, which includes SILENT BLADE, SILVER SHARK, plus a new short story, and three original illustrations.**Family is everything. ![]()
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![]() ![]() One Night in Winter is full of redemptive love and inner freedom." Evening Standard The novel's theme is Love: family love, youthful romance, adulterous passion. Stalin's chilling charisma is brilliantly realised. Montefiore weaves a tight, satisfying plot, delivering surprises to the last page. He has now completed his Moscow Trilogy of novels featuring Benya Golden and Comrade Satinov, Sashenka, Dashka and Fabiana. 'The Romanovs' is his latest history book. He read history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, where he received his Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD). He has won prizes in both non-fiction and fiction. ![]() Simon Sebag Montefiore is the author of the global bestsellers 'The Romanovs' and 'Jerusalem: the Biography,' 'Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar' and Young Stalin and the novels Sashenka and One Night in Winter and "Red Sky at Noon." His books are published in 48 languages and are worldwide bestsellers. ![]() ![]() ![]() After a mugging exposes her unique ability, Lila decides to run to the only people she can trust - her brother and Alex. The second is that she's been in love with her brother's best friend, Alex, since forever. The first is that she can move things just by looking at them.
![]() ![]() Why not cut them up, they’re already dead? But is it? And fear, once she comes to understand the part she plays in the dangerous black market for supernatural body parts, of who and what she is. She learned at an early age to keep her mouth shut to avoid betraying her family’s dark secrets. Fear of her mother, who brings home the corpses Nita dissects. What would you do to escape? What lines would you cross? What if your body parts were about to be sold off to the highest bidder. But what makes this book a stand-out is the way it raises gruesome “what if’s” and holds up a mirror to the reader’s face. I learned more than I need to know about the disassembly of human anatomy, and it was fascinating. This book met all my expectations! DON’T read this book while eating a nice meal, especially the bits about dissection. ![]() Now on the other side of the bars, if she wants to escape, Nita must ask herself if she’s willing to become the worst kind of monster. But when she decides to save her mother’s victim, she ends up sold in his place-because Nita herself isn’t exactly “human.” She has the ability to alter her biology, a talent that is priceless on the black market. Nita just dissects the bodies after they’ve been “acquired.” Until her mom brings home a live specimen and Nita decides she wants out dissecting a scared teenage boy is a step too far. Nita doesn’t murder supernatural beings and sell their body parts on the internet-her mother does that. ![]() ![]() ![]() The fighting ended after Philip was shot, quartered, and beheaded in August 1676. Both sides, in fact, had pursued the war seemingly without restraint, killing women and children, torturing captives, and mutilating the dead. While it raged, colonial armies pursued enemy Indians through the swamps and woods of New England, and Indians attacked English farms and towns from Narragansett Bay to the Connecticut River Valley. The war spread quickly, pitting a loose confederation of southeastern Algonquians against a coalition of English colonists. ![]() Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war." It all began when Philip (called Metacom by his own people), the leader of the Wampanoag Indians, led attacks against English towns in the colony of Plymouth. Publisher description: King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war-colonists against Indians-that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Warning: The following article contains spoilers for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. At its core, the trilogy is a story of the bonds forged between vastly different peoples, the unity born from fellowship, and individual capacity for courage, loyalty, and perseverance. Yet despite its grand, fully realized settings, sweeping descriptions of generational wars, and wholly imaginative depictions of otherworldly beings, the most compelling thing about Lord of the Rings has nothing to do with the looming Eye of Sauron. Tolkien's groundbreaking, genre-defining fantasy epic, The Lord of the Rings is a saga about a great many things: the push and pull between tremendous good and unthinkable evil, the tantalizing yet insidious nature of ambition and pride, and the call of fate and destiny. ![]() ![]() ![]() The highlight is instead Sesily’s fierce, loyal friend group, and readers will be eager to see more of them in future installments. Caleb’s defining traits are his unwavering devotion and willingness to martyr himself, but he lacks the wonderful nuance that animates Sesily herself. She is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical romances, and the author of a monthly column at The Washington Post celebrating the best of the romance genre. Refreshingly, their relationship’s development hinges on Caleb learning that Sesily is more than capable of protecting herself. A life-long romance reader, Sarah MacLean wrote her first romance novel on a dare, and never looked back. ![]() ![]() As resolved as he is to keep his distance, however, he’s equally determined to protect Sesily, and comes to her rescue in ballrooms and bar fights alike. The pair have been pining for each other for two years, but Caleb’s convinced that his dark past will endanger any woman in his orbit. Throwing a wrench in this plan is American tavern owner Caleb Calhoun. ![]() With a group of multitalented, badass women at her back, Sesily makes a habit of toppling villainous aristocrats, and now she’s plotting to expose the crimes of the horrible Viscount Coleford. Thirty-year-old Lady Sesily Talbot’s brazen reputation is well-earned-it’s also a helpful cover for her acts of vigilante justice: no one thinks twice about a notorious lightskirt luring men into dark corners. Bestseller MacLean ( Daring and the Duke) launchers her Hell’s Belles series with a sizzling, adventurous Victorian romance. ![]() ![]() Run for the Roses by Rachel Schieffelbein is about a girl named Abigail Conrad who has spent her whole life training for one goal: to win the roses at the Arabian Youth Nationals. I've chosen three sports-themed teen titles from our list to share with HEA's readers who love sports. Because everyone knows the greatest part of the journey is not whether you win or lose, but how you get there. In the end, each of the main characters had to learn to let go of their competitive nature in order to welcome the possibility of love into their lives. What I learned was that these stories are not just about girls who play sports, but about letting go and allowing life to happen. ![]() I was intrigued by how seriously devoted to sports characters these stories were and wondered what inspired the authors to write the particular sport into the story. More and more, sports played prominently in the storylines. A few months ago, however, I started noticing a trend in our Young Adult contemporary romance submissions. Most are high-school-themed or intense first-love accounts. Georgia: At Swoon Romance, we receive lots of teen romance submissions. ![]() Georgia McBride, publisher at Swoon Romance, shares three YA titles that prominently feature sports themes. ![]() ![]() Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. ![]() Reviews and screenshots of book excerpts must contain the book title/author in the post title.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for and/or keywords that will inform future searches.Rules Post titles must be clear and informative For updated information regarding ongoing community features includings upcoming AMAs, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. ![]() Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with informative links about Book Clubs, AMAs, etc. Home of the magic search button and endless book recommendations as well as discussions about tropes and characters, Author AMAs, book clubs, and more. ![]() R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her major series is set in a long-lost Earth colony, Pern, a world whose first human settlers (see Colonization of Other Worlds) had modified the native dragonish species "fire lizards" through Genetic Engineering – the relatively late Dragonsdawn ( 1988) serves as the relevant origin story – in order to create the romantic empath dragons who dominate the overall sequence. Soon McCaffrey began publishing the linked novels and stories that have made her reputation as a writer of romantic, heightened tales of adventure designed to appeal – and to make good sense to – readers who start young and who, over the years, grow into her world. She began publishing work of genre interest with "Freedom of the Race" for Hugo Gernsback's Science-Fiction Plus in 1953, becoming well-known a decade or so later with her first novel, Restoree ( 1967), which rather conventionally, though with tongue in cheek, tells the story of a young woman who, after being flayed alive by Alien flesh-eaters, is saved and with her skin restored has adventures in another world's high society. Most of her output was sf, though tinged with the tone and instruments of Fantasy: much of her main work, the enormous Pern sequence of Planetary Romance adventures (see below) is normally experienced as fantasy. ![]() (1926-2011) US-born professional horsebreeder and author, in Ireland from the 1970s mother of Gigi McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey. ![]() |