If you walk the streets of Phoenix during the day, you see a city, built by strong hands and strong minds. Her spires of glass and steel pierce the blue skies and scintillate in the blazing Arizona sun. Cars rush through the streets, billowing dust and desert scents. And once and a while you’ll notice a black and silver cab . . .
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A fantasy set in modern Japan, about a young woman and the kami who takes a strong interest in her. . . .
When an accident threatens a centuries-long truce between Ottumwa’s citizens and those who live under it, an unlikely and forbidden love affair may be the only thing that prevents the city’s destruction. Six recent Ottumwa High graduates begin their summer much like the rest of their classmates; they party, prepare for college, look for jobs, and begin to explore . . .
Danny didn’t want to move, especially to an old house with a graveyard in the backyard. The ghost and the gargoyle were an additional nuisance . . . . . .
This is an original Action/Adventure/Mystery novel about every question about the world as we know it through the eyes of 3 oblivious teens: “When Three normal high school students discover the new world of Deviant, and Murderous soldiers their lives are forever in shambles as they must now run and hide from every organization looking for them. Strange things and . . .
A humorous chronicle of supernatural occurrences in a small Wisconsin town. Featuring Lovecraftian references, classic monsters, and magic. . . .
Follows the adventures of a small group dedicated to exploring supernatural mysteries. During the course of the adventure new characters are introduced and pasts revealed. The POV of the posts are stated in the title and switch between several of the characters. It starts out as a journal but changes into a normal story as it progresses. The author uses . . .
It’s a fiery hot summer, and sixteen-year-old Jesse Wright is on the run. An oddly gifted boy, he arrives in a new city where the direction of his life is about to change. He’s hungry and lonely and desperate – and beset by visions of a stranger who is being brutally tortured. And then there are Jesse’s own memories of . . .
Welcome to Crescent Manor. Where the rent is cheap and your neighbours are dead to the world.—The Landlord Mark and Nathan Connor are twins, but in name only. There is little to connect them, save their current residence in Crescent Manor, an old building situated in the centre of a mid-sized city. They are unaware the tenants of . . .
Mary’s back, and she has to help Vicky, her nemesis. While on a date, Vicky gets into car wreck that leaves her in a coma. Through dreams, she reaches out to Mary for help. Mary isn’t happy to help her, but she’s willing to do almost anything to get her out of her head. . . .
All the time we are surrounded by coincidences. Some we pay a second thought to and then forget about. Some fill us with wonder. Some we never even notice. But there are some which can scare us. When Kieran Whyteleafe starts to see little coincidences happening around him he decides to investigate their meaning. The coincidences seem to centre . . .
In the sequel to Breathless, Lilith’s back, and she’s got her eye on Jason. Jason doesn’t think Azazel’s new best friend Jude is really gay. Someone put a bell, engraved with a picture of the sun rising over water, in Azazel’s purse. Azazel’s worried, but Jason thinks she’s paranoid. Jason and Azazel might be at the . . .
Vampires are walking the streets. You probably aren’t even aware of them: the Living do their thing by day, the Undead by night. Everything you’ve heard about vampires is lies. They don’t suck the blood of maidens, they don’t torment innocent people and they don’t dress like Robert Smith from The Cure. Actually, that last one’s true. Reviled . . .
It certainly has some excellent writing and the characters are realistic and gripping. It makes me almost want to sympathize with the narrator right from the get-go. It’s written in such a way that the university she writes about could actually exist. The attention to detail of the school itself proves that the author lived it firsthand (college in general, [more . . .]
A difficult narrative is handled with surprising skill by the author of this story. A combination ghost story, mystery, and period piece, it also encompasses multiple timelines. The number of issues brought up by the different epochs, such as language differences, scene descriptions, and in this case legal issues, are more than enough to bring a lesser writer to his/her [more . . .]