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The Ship Rats are finally on their way home. After a year travelling the oceans, little Preen is looking forward to some peace and quiet. The arrival of a rich merchant and his pet dog ruin all that. The truce between the sailors and rats aboard the Dutch trading ship might be on the verge of breaking down. A strange new rat called Xing also makes Preen's life more complicated. Can nervous Preen overcome her fears and dig out dangerous secrets in time to save her friends?
A boy blinded by fire. A woman raised by wolves. An avowed enemy offers help. In this second in the Dawn of Humanity trilogy, the first trilogy in the Man vs. Nature saga, Lucy and her eclectic group escape the treacherous tribe that has been hunting them and find a safe haven in the famous Wonderwerk caves in South Africa, the oldest known occupation of caves by humans. They don't have clothing, fire, or weapons, but the caves keep them warm and food is plentiful. Circumstances make it clear that they can't stay, not with the rest of her tribe enslaved by the treacherous enemy. To free them requires not only the prodigious skills of Lucy's unique group--which includes a proto-wolf and a fem...
After 40 years of marriage, Olivia's husband unexpectedly passes away. But when Ben's will reveals a life-altering secret, she suffers a blow no widow should ever experience. Olivia learns that she gave birth to a baby who later died in the nursery. Instead of telling his wife what happened, Ben switched the child with another. And as if that's not enough, Ben's will doesn't reveal which of their five sons is truly not hers. Olivia visits each of her sons to share a final connection before facing the truth that will change their family, and discovers that each of them has been harboring a painful secret, just like their father. But will the secrets destroy their family, or bring them closer together?
Her future looked promising and it was supposed to come easily. Carefree art model and college student Nell seems to have it all together. Everything changes though when she is faced with an unplanned pregnancy. Motherhood is a role she grudgingly accepts, despite believing her life is over. Quickly though, she discovers unexpected joy in her new role and Charlie becomes the center of her universe. Thirteen years later everything changes when tragedy strikes Charlie's middle school. Faced with the unimaginable, Nell reaches out in desperation via text to the one person who can heal her broken heart, Charlie himself. When she gets a shocking reply, she is driven to learn the truth. Who was the person on the other end of the text chain, and could she get to them in time?Ellipsis is a story about love, grief, and ultimately finding purpose.
It's a bleak time for the people of Mackabine. A false Regent holds rule over the capital, while in the county of Geid, a corrupt Baron confiscates grain while his subjects starve. The only opposition comes from a group of outlaws known as Queensmen. Senna is no Queensmen, no hero of legend, but she devises her own scheme to undermine the Baron by becoming his housekeeper. Can she learn enough to turn the Baron's secrets against him? And perhaps catch the eye of the handsome leader of the Queensmen?
Twenty years past, the governors plotted murder. Ruled by avarice, they imprisoned the winged dragons of Taran Leigh in the black cells of a stone lair. Tormented by spine and spur the once peaceful creatures howl, immense webbed wings beating beneath iron bars. Those who raised their voices in protest were banished--skyriders, the men who rode the dragons--vanished to the distant mountains of the Mirror.Now, Treasa, the daughter of exiles, seeker of secrets, dreams with the lair's dragons, her heart torn by her love for the winged creatures and a man who masters them. She must choose her path with care. The lair's black -garbed riders sense the dragon's growing savagery. Yet one, Conall, longs to grasp their power, subdue them and soar, unaware that winged flight, merged in harmony, is his for the asking. Then, a curved talon rends Conall's flesh and dragon scale, rattling against white ribs and the world shifts. As hearts once parted bind, Terasa and Conall join forces to fight for the dragon's freedom. Alliances form, old myths are revealed and new myths are born.
'The book's plot is similar in key ways to ... Jean M. Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear--Kirkus ReviewsBorn in the harsh world of East Africa 1.8 million years ago, where hunger, death, and predation are a normal part of daily life, Lucy and her band of early humans struggle to survive. It is a time in history when they are relentlessly annihilated by predators, nature, their own people, and the next iteration of man. To make it worse, Lucy's band hates her. She is their leader's new mate and they don't understand her odd actions, don't like her strange looks, and don't trust her past. To survive, she cobbles together an unusual alliance with an orphaned child, a beleaguered protodog who's l...
Three years has passed since Roxanne left. She's obeyed and fulfilled Remo's every wish. His latest command, however, will send her back to Earth. Aware her presence Earth-side is furthering Remo's plans, Roxanne delves into an impossible chase against time, the preternatural community, and herself. But she might already be too late, and Roxanne experiences firsthand that when desperate people are pressed against a rock, they're willing to commit just about anything.
Spacefaring explorer Rod Gallowglass discovers a lost colony planet with a bizarre pseudo-medieval culture, witches and warlocks, and monsters out of myth and legend. How can a place like this even exist?
The tree wasn't there last night. Wes's perfect little family doesn't appreciate nature like he does, and they don't seem to care that their own back yard has become a site of unearthly mystery.But Wes cares. He needs to know what it is, and where it came from, because this is no ordinary tree. It's growing far too quickly.Then there's the concerning matter of the entity that the tree attracts in the middle of the night ...P.T. Phronk presents a short novel of quiet horror that will make you rethink the things growing just outside your door.