![]() ![]() Enne’s offer of compensation, however, could be the solution to all his problems. ![]() Levi is also only one payment away from cleaning up a rapidly unraveling investment scam, so he doesn’t have time to investigate a woman leading a dangerous double life. Unfortunately, Levi is not the gentleman she expected - he’s a street lord and a con man. But when her mother goes missing, Enne must leave her finishing school - and her reputation - behind to follow her mother’s trail to the city where no one survives uncorrupted.įrightened and alone, Enne has only one lead: the name Levi Glaisyer. Welcome to the City of Sin, where casino families reign, gangs infest the streets … and secrets hide in every shadow.Įnne Salta was raised as a proper young lady, and no lady would willingly visit New Reynes, the so-called City of Sin. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Rising tension and barely restrained passion blurs the lines between right and wrong, and Emory begins to wonder if the man with no name is the one who has rescued her from death. ![]() A desperate young woman is caught at the center of a dispute, and Emory can't bring herself to look the other way, even if it means breaking the law. But before she can escape, the two encounter dangerous people who adhere to their own code of justice. ![]() She's willing to take any risks necessary to survive. While police suspect Jeff of "instant divorce," Emory regains consciousness only to find herself the captive of a man whose violent past is so dark he won't even tell her his name. Fog and ice encapsulate the wilderness and freeze the search. But by the time he reports her missing, the trail has (literally) gone cold. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina minutes after an argument with her husband Jeff. ![]() In this New York Times bestselling thriller, a doctor is kidnapped in the mountain wilderness after a fight with her husband - and as the FBI closes in, she must make dangerous choices to survive.Dr. ![]() ![]() Moonbeam’s parents joined the Lord’s Legion when she was very young. Perhaps she is visualising an early memory of her life before living in the community. She picks up a paintbrush and creates scenes of a small house by the sea. The teenager is unable to speak about the disaster where many people died. In the aftermath of the destruction of the Legion’s compound, Moonbeam is recovering in a Secure Unit in Odessa, Texas. It is not clear how her family of Brothers and Sisters – the Lord’s Legion community – reached this devastating and tragic crisis. Coming to the book raw and without preconceptions I was quickly immersed in an intense atmosphere of fear, suspicion and confusion. The disjointed memories of survivor Moonbeam are filled with gunshots and burning fire. ![]() ![]() I picked up After the Fire without reading the blurb or having prior knowledge of its subject. “The things I’ve seen are burned into me, like scars that refuse to fade”. ![]() ![]() ![]() The group heads to a monastery to consult with Jonus, a wise monk, about a pain in Beatrice's side. The superstitious villagers attempt to kill the boy, but Wistan rescues him and joins Axl and Beatrice on their journey, hoping to leave Edwin at the son's village. A visiting Saxon warrior, Wistan, kills the ogres and rescues Edwin who is discovered to have a wound, believed to be an ogre-bite. They stay at a Saxon village where two ogres have dragged off a boy named Edwin. ![]() Although barely able to remember, they feel sure that they once had a son, and they decide to travel to a village several days' walk away to seek him out. Along with everyone else in their community, Axl and Beatrice, an elderly Briton couple, suffer from severe selective amnesia that they call the 'mist'. Plot summary įollowing the death of King Arthur, Saxons and Britons live in harmony. It also placed sixth in the 2016 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. The book was nominated for the 2016 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and the 2016 Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature. ![]() After dimly recalling that they might years earlier have had a son, the couple decide to travel to a neighbouring village to seek him out. The novel follows an elderly Briton couple, Axl and Beatrice, living in a fictional post- Arthurian England in which no-one is able to retain long-term memories. The Buried Giant is a fantasy novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, published in March 2015. ![]() ![]() Once she entered school, Amy was often told by her teachers that she should become a writer. ![]() Amy had to secretly take care of them without the government agents-or her parents-finding out. They were abandoned on her doorstep by parents on the run from top secret government agents bent on capturing their supernatural kids. ![]() She would pretend that her baby dolls were real children with magical powers. Early on, the family moved around a bit, spending time in Atlanta, Georgia and Hendersonville, North Carolina before returning to Pennsylvania for the remainder of Amy's growing up years.įrom the start, Amy had a big imagination. She is the oldest daughter of Tom and Peggy Williams and has one younger brother, Tom Jr. Amy Christine Parker was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in1972. ![]() |