"I, the most humble Mother Joachima, now in the one hundred and sixteenth year of my life, in obedience to the request of Mother Superior, was entrusted with chronicling the beginnings of our mission here on Terra Two and the first hundred years of terraforming.""I, the most humble Mother Joachima, now in the one hundred and sixteenth year of my life, in obedience to the request of Mother Superior, was entrusted with chronicling the beginnings of our mission here on Terra Two and the first hundred years of terraforming.""Many people would have been better suited for this task, since they are much more knowledgeable and eloquent than I, but I was chosen for I was blessed to witness many of the events first hand. Whether I will be worthy of this task is at the mercy of the Almighty, to Whom I pray for guidance and fair resurgence of my memories."[...]The sun peeked from behind Terra Two, festooning its edge with a very thin and sharply intense sliver of light that broadened quickly, casting coffee colored shadows on the chocolate rose surface, shimmering on the plane of the water and making it shine like old gold. The images of the methane containers echoed on the restless liquid surface and thin wisps of foam got carried by the breeze to form even and delicate crests between the islands. The waves interfered and harmonized creating complex ephemeral patterns, almost as if the planet was trying to tell the newcomers a story in a language so ancient and abstruse only it understood.

★★★★★ "POWERFUL! Rose Haven creates an intensely romantic world for young and old alike. A place where there is darkness and light, love and hope, and if you dare to go there you will never want to leave."Lady Rebecca Thompsons’ chances of landing a good husband have already been diluted because of her late father’s questionable reputation. To make matters worse, she finds herself on the brink of losing her fortune and the estate that she loves more than anything! The man behind all her miseries, Lord Henry Northwall, is also the only man who can give her everything she ever dreamed of; but at what cost? Read on to find out if Lady Rebecca is willing to accept Henry’s scandalous proposal….. ★★★★★ "POWERFUL! Rose Haven creates an intensely romantic world for young and old alike. A place where there is darkness and light, love and hope, and if you dare to go there you will never want to leave."

A billion people vanish—O Armageddon! Yet one must learn the Secrets of the Ages. Guided by a Holy Angel, missionary pilot RW flies in a dream-sphere of an ancient God fearing dragon. His amazement grows level by level as the world he thought he knew crumbles. Simultaneously, the Angel deftly unravels humanities hidden secrets. But will RW unravel a secret that has mystified angels forever?In the first two books of this trilogy (“Cashback” and “Their Own Game”), mysterious and unexplained men on motorbikes appear from time to time. This final book explains their top secret role.***One of Britain’s top particle physicists, Jack Barclay, is on the verge of a major breakthrough in developing the nuclear fusion process into a clean and sustainable alternative to carbon fuels. News of this spreads round the world causing great interest in most nations but grave concern in Russia. When other countries, including America, seek collaboration to help speed his work, Russia determines to put an end to Barclay’s research at the Harwell and Culham laboratories.As a top-secret British intelligence agency is tasked with protecting Barclay, one of Russia’s top KGB agents is sent to arrange his assassination. The twists and turns of the action-packed plot take us, with the intelligence agency’s team, from England’s nuclear research laboratories to a final, bloody, gunfight in the Swiss Alps.

In the first two books of this trilogy (“Cashback” and “Their Own Game”), mysterious and unexplained men on motorbikes appear from time to time. This final book explains their top secret role by following the desperate attempt by their Intelligence agency to prevent the assassination of one of Britain’s leading nuclear physicists.In the first two books of this trilogy (“Cashback” and “Their Own Game”), mysterious and unexplained men on motorbikes appear from time to time. This final book explains their top secret role.***One of Britain’s top particle physicists, Jack Barclay, is on the verge of a major breakthrough in developing the nuclear fusion process into a clean and sustainable alternative to carbon fuels. News of this spreads round the world causing great interest in most nations but grave concern in Russia. When other countries, including America, seek collaboration to help speed his work, Russia determines to put an end to Barclay’s research at the Harwell and Culham laboratories.As a top-secret British intelligence agency is tasked with protecting Barclay, one of Russia’s top KGB agents is sent to arrange his assassination. The twists and turns of the action-packed plot take us, with the intelligence agency’s team, from England’s nuclear research laboratories to a final, bloody, gunfight in the Swiss Alps.

Read SONG TO WAKE TO for a taste of the fictional world of Levels - on the surface just like our own. Beneath its skin, however, an ancient heart beats faster as old stories waken. Meet your strong minded yet fickle heroine and your brave and powerful hero. See their lives through their eyes, hear their voices, and feel their excitement as their adventure begins. Step on to Levels One.Sixteen-year-old Maddy Bride starts at a new school in the countryside. She knows she’ll have to deal with sports obsessed rich kids, cliques, and pressure. She doesn’t expect myths from the shadowy past to be taking place around her. Not only are the legends unfinished. They’re starting all over again.Her new classmate, Eddy Moon, is awkward, and shy, and has lived a life of hardship and loneliness. As his strength and sense of purpose become more and more striking, Maddy comes to believe that he may have a place in the stories. At the same time she realises that the place she wants is by his side.Closeness to Eddy brings Maddy another shocking realisation. Not only is he a mythic hero returned to life in the countryside, but maybe she too has a place in the legends. Torn between normality and her attraction to the magnificent Eddy Moon, Maddy has to decide who she is, who she is going to be, and whether stories must end the same way twice.

A war against a clone race called Deviants rages. Pitted against them and a deadly virus, humans are all but extinct. They live in secret, walled-in cities for protection, and only Exteriors, agents operating above the law, are allowed outside. A team is sent into the decimated Washington D.C. to evaluate its potential for recolonization. They find survivors, but not all of them are as they seem.Myth Fisher was a survivor. That was what she did. As a Cartographer in the Colony of Hand, she was one of the Outsiders, and that made her separate from the other Colonists. She existed to travel to the Outside of the Colony to scrounge for food and supplies in the place she knew as Dwindle. Her life was a battle between herself and the Undead, the creatures whose sickness had been wrought hundreds of cycles ago by the "Bad People." Her immunity has always saved her from experiencing that horrible transformation from person to beast, at least until her mentor returned with the very disease "the taint" was supposed to prevent her from contracting.As events begin to spiral out of her control, Outlanders head her way, and Oliver Dark is among them. An "Exterior" for the High Council, a group of supercomputers that rule the decimated remains of the new world after the Fourth World War, he serves as a hired hit-man and soldier for Probe, the Primary Reconnaissance of Overpopulation of Biological Entities. This company is the government, and the government is the company. And their sole purpose is to push back the Deviants, the clone race that the High Council created in the hundreds of years before. Forever at war with the copycat race and at the bidding of mysterious overlords known only to Dark as his Masters, Dark's purpose in Dwindle is to gain back much needed territory for the human race.When Dark and Fisher collide through a series of unexpected circumstances, they both realize that their worlds are not entirely what they appear to be. Inquiries into the outside world lead Fisher to believe that her life, and the lives of all those in Dwindle, is not as simple as it may have once appeared. And for Dark, her existence proves to be more problematic than he may have anticipated for himself, the High Council, his Masters, and the world.

Winter Solstice Winter draws you in to the land of the Vikings, a dangerous time full of mystery & mythology. Nothing is simple when you're battling an evil Empress & the three heroes of the piece Ailia, Lucia & Soren find themselves deeply entwined. But can they overcome the strife that comes between them in order to rise up & not only reclaim the Northlandic Throne but save all of humanity?WINTER SOLSTICE WINTER is a New Adult fantasy romance mixed with Viking mythology novel. Think Lord of the Rings 'light' meets Princess and the Pauper, with a soul mate love story - an epic saga with two strong female heroines.It’s not easy being a seventeen-year-old adopted peasant girl in the Viking-inhabited Northlandic Kingdom, especially when you have terrifying mare dreams of an evil Empress named Eiess and when your friends oust you because they consider you cursed. Little does Ailia know, that she hasn’t even seen the tip of the iceberg yet...On Winter Solstice, Ailia seeks out a quiet place to ponder: a large cliff overlooking her hometown. On her way home, Eiess and an army of Vikings capture her before attacking the Northlandic castle. After having usurped the throne, Eiess suspends the seasons on not only the coldest, but also the darkest day of the year.Princess Lucia, sole heir to the Northlandic Throne, is taken prisoner by Eiess. For months, Lucia wastes away in the castle’s tower, never knowing when this nightmare of beatings, starvation and bitter cold will end. But when she miraculously escapes, she learns that she has a sister she must find so they can together defeat Eiess.Ailia wakes up in a glacier cave months later with no memory of how she ended up there. On her way home, a handsome, yet mysterious young man named Soren, rescues her, and tells her he will help her find the answers to her questions about her mare dreams. Ailia is immediately drawn to Soren, thinking she knows him from somewhere, maybe from a dream of a previous life? She falls for him, but no sooner than he reveals he has been sent by the gods to defeat Eiess, and is waiting to reunite with his soul mate, Lucia, so they together can form an alliance.As Eiess continues to amass her forces, Ailia, Lucia and Soren discover that their destinies are intertwined behind a veil of dark secrets and lies. Finally together, they begin to form an alliance. But will they succeed in unravelling the maze of lies and learn the truth so they can defeat Eiess before darkness overcomes the Kingdom forever?

Elusive creatures. Strategies revealed. The death of a woman draws the attention of an enigmatic detective, and through the angels he will unveil this crime.Isaias is a moody policeman who exercises his work without any mishaps in listless Rio Vermelho, a small town in Minas Gerais, Brazil. But his routine changed when, one morning, the body of young Judith was found in the backyard of the rectory. The failure of investigation leads to the request for assistance of a detective from the principal city. The newcomer detective had a strange movement in the eyes, and an extraordinary and unbe- lievable ability: he could read the thoughts of others. From the delegate, Isaiah knew that Clovis could do it in dialogue with angels. The research was becoming more exciting every day. But Isaias intrigued with the difficulty of Clovis to unveil the crime, after all, couldn't him just observe and ask the angels close to the suspects? As soon as Isaias can understand how the detective Clovis viewing the world through the angels and how those angels influence human beings, Isaias not only discover the Judith’s secret, he also see that his life and destiny changed completely.

Is Mercedes Strand living every tween girl's dream, or a sane person's nightmare?****This version is a combination of the first three books of the Evanescence series: Evanescence, The Mirror, and Soul Cannibal****For the girl who has everything, Mercedes Strand can't possibly ask for more. But more she will get. She's earned it after all. She's kind, altruistic, and a total whiz on the computer. What will her rewards entail? How about a hot vampire boyfriend? Yeah, nearly draining her dry of blood and informing her she's earned the wrath of an evil psychopath vampire doesn't usually happen on the ideal first date, but hey, who said love was predictable? Clouds and silver linings, no? Their love shall be everlasting.Surely Mercedes' rewards won't stop there? You bet your backside they won't. Even better than being the breath of life to a hot vampire, she soon catches the eye of Tarasque, the king of dragons himself. Blackmailed by a powerful enemy, he whisks her away to his kingdom of magnificent mountains and endless treasures. And she gets two rewards for the price of one when it's all up to her to convince Tarasque not to commit genocide against the vampires. Fortunately, he's enthralled with her beauty, wit, and sheer mystery to the point where he wishes to rip apart her beloved boyfriend who just so happens to be a…Huh.Well, clouds and silver linings people. Clouds and silver linings. Mercedes' rewards still don't stop there, no siree. How often does a human become so important to an evil Aztec god to the point where his plans can't come to fruition without her? With her pure angelic voice she can unite the cowardly sirens, the blind dragons, and the fanatical vampires against the forces of evil. They won't ignore her, beat her, or try to kill her…Huh.Maybe the term "rewards" is a bit on the loose side.

12 Short Stories involving beings and entities less than, more than or other than human: weird situations in which the impossible happens. Some reflect Mike's bizarre sense of humour while some leave a tingle of uncertainty - could the impossible really be true? Could parallel universes exist in the same space as this one? Suspend your disbelief and read on.Dear Readers,This ebook is my thank you gift to all you who have taken the time to email me privately and leave reviews about how much you enjoy the world of Pearl Island and all its characters. The first three books in the series were originally published in print by St. Martin’s Press. When I re-released them as ebooks, your affection for the stories inspired me to add an extra "epilogue" to the end of Books 1 - 3 so you could see what's happening at the Pearl Island Inn today. If you haven't read the series, this ebook can read as three short stories to introduce you to the enchanting world of Pearl Island and the St. Claire siblings who turned a dilapidated mansion into a thriving bed and breakfast haunted by their colorful ancestor and her pirate lover.Welcome back to Pearl Island!Julie Ortolon

A young Nigerian woman prepares for her white wedding to her boyfriend of 3 years. Their relationship has outlived unusual trials. However, what happens on the day of the wedding will determine the future of this couple.The Bird Day Battalion is a short, sweet and sexy little Thanksgiving story. Meet Katelyn Anderson, a play by the rules, temporarily out of work archaeologist desperate to pull off the perfect Thanksgiving dinner for her family. Enter Dominic Valentini, her oldest friend and former neighbor, a take chances, take control, think outside the box kind of man. She needs his help. He just needs her.This is a quick, hot and fluffy read served up free on a platter of gratitude to my readers for all your kind support. It's the usual blend of family shenanigans, love, and romance in a small uncomplicated dose. Enjoy!

Optioned and in development for a major movie through Motion Picture Pro Studios.Angel in the Shadows, Book 1 Fifteen-year-old Megan Laughlin has a gift; or what seems like a curse at times. Megan sees angels and demons.Megan knows her destiny is to protect her friends against dark angels who try to sway them into situations that can destroy their souls, their lives, and their eternity.The difference between vampires and angels? Angels are real.Books 1 and 2 are optioned and in development for a major movie through Motion Picture Pro Studios, which has been involved with five academy award winning movies.Fifteen-year-old Megan Laughlin has a gift--or what seems like a curse at times. Megan sees angels and demons.Megan knows her destiny is to protect her friends against dark angels who try to sway them into situations that can destroy their lives, their souls, and their eternity.At school, she recognizes Judas, an über popular boy, as an evil angel hell-bent on destroying her and everyone she loves. As Judas spreads horrible rumors and overdoses two of her classmates at a rave, Megan realizes the enormity of his power. While classmates die, Megan, with the help of an angel, Johnny, and a team of friends will face the fight of their lives as they battle Judas.Megan thinks God hasn't given her any "special" powers, but discovers she has what she needs as she confronts Judas and his seemingly unconquerable power."Ms. Grace rocks the originality!" werevampsromance.org"Lisa Grace creates a supernatural world, where the heroine is 100 percent human - a brilliant alternative to the vampire novels. If this is her first novel - I can't wait to see what else she has in store for readers. A page-turner from start to finish." -Alexis Del Cid, CBS NEWS, KOIN-TV, Portland, Oregon"Lisa Grace is a talented and exciting author. Suspense drips off each page. I look forward to her next work." -Gretchen Hegelson, Book Reviewer, Phoenix, Arizona

When their coach is attacked on the way back from their joining ceremony, Dasen and Teth find themselves running for their lives. Trapped in the remote forests, they soon learn that what they thought was a bandit attack is the beginning of something far more malevolent. As myths come to life Dasen and Teth's world is thrown into turmoil, and their only hope to survive is each other.Thrust together from two different worlds, Dasen and Teth must learn not only to live together but to survive together after their coach is attacked on the way back from their joining ceremony. Trapped in the remote forests, running for their lives, they soon learn that what they thought was a bandit attack is the beginning of something far more malevolent. As myths come to life, Dasen and Teth's world is thrown into turmoil, and their only hope to survive is each other.

The Fallen God is the second book in my Nomads of Gorn three part trilogy, it continues the travels of the Almadra started in my first book “Nomads of the Gods” Arn, Andra, Osh and the rest of the tribe travel to the forests of Caltarine, there they meet the Norgonie, the people of the forest who’s Queen Arn knows well, lots of action and adventure and a little romance, enjoy.The Fallen God is the secound book in my Nomads of Gorn three part trilogy, it continues the travels of the Almadra started in my first book “Nomads of the Gods” Arn, Andra, Osh and the rest of the tribe travel to the forests of Caltarine, there they meet the Norgonie, the people of the forest who’s Queen Arn knows well, but unknown to them an ancient mechanical menace has come to Gron and it has the power to destroy them all. The book also brings back the hate filled Shadowman, brother of the King, he joins forces with the giant mechanical monster and sets out to fulfill his revenge on the Nomads, meanwhile in the forest stronghold of the Norgonie Andra must fight for her life against vicious Sargar cats and a kidnapping by the son of the Queen and when she is taken to the Forbidden City she finds flesh eaters, horrific dangers, people from her past and something she thought was lost. New adventures also await the philosopher Osh and Endo, for the young Sandjar must fight to free his people for the slave pits under the Norgonie city, and Osh comes face to face with a ancient scholar he thought was long dead, fully illustrated with over 50 chapter drawings it has lots of action, romance and intrigue and is yours FREE for the reading, enjoy.

“Stories from Amman” is the result of over 50 artists and illustrators telling stories about a small but special city, in Arabic and English, over the course of a day.The stories range from personal reflections, to manga art, to memories of how Amman used to be.Cities are immortalized in story and stone.The is a book about a city. A place of aspiration, hope, corruption, brutality, change, ambition, family and loneliness. A place where thousands dream of escape. Somewhere millions call home.A city like any other city. But different. The stories in the ebook were created by a team of over fifty writers and artists in just one day, working in Arabic and English. 'Stories from Amman' is a 'Project Pen Storylabs' initiative to go out and create the content.Project Pen was founded to encourage a new generation of writers, creating new kinds of stories, from a new generation of writers.We're based, as you might have gussed, in Amman Jordan.