It has been two years since Lady Cassandra Cortova's sister mysteriously disappeared while on a routine mission.
Two years since she had to take her sister's place as one of the wealthiest silk merchants in Lathos.
And two years since she stepped up as the Second-in-Command within the deadly Guild of Assassins.
But when it becomes apparent that the Guild's loyalties may not lie as deep as once believed, Cass must quickly decide who to trust, and who to eliminate, if she's to discover what's become of her sister before the same happens to her.
Showing posts with label Action and Adventure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Action and Adventure. Show all posts
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Rogue Assassin
Saturday, September 24, 2016
The Viper's Venom
"It's not what it looks like."
"It never is." Ever.
After being betrayed by her (ex-)adoptive parents, Amber Johnson focuses all her attention on carrying out her employer's bidding. Working for an organisation which is trying to make a difference in the world is never easy, and having the cops consider it a terrorist organisation makes it even worse.
When she stumbles upon an intelligence officer who begs her for help in catching someone he has a personal vendetta against, things start going haywire. Suddenly, her own colleagues are turning against her and her friends become her enemies. Nothing is as it seems. And to put icing on the cake, what's all this about poisoning people? Has it got to do with the man who the officer wanted to catch? Or is it nothing more than rumours spurring from the fact that the organisation's name is Poison?
Whatever it is, she needs answers and there is only one way that she is going to get them. By fighting fire with fire. Or rather, by fighting Poison with poison...
Saturday, June 25, 2016
World Without Reason
Nicholas, Zach, and Sera are summoned to the world of Aurelia, a dream-like world of fantasy. From man-eating trees to three-headed dragons, this world has it all.
As they begin to take their first steps however, death makes its move. When his friends fall one by one, Nick is left with a new goal in mind: revenge.
Setting off on an arduous journey, he meets new friends, as well as new enemies. However, as he starts to see this world for what it truly is, revenge becomes the least of his worries.
Saturday, May 21, 2016
THE RELIC GUILD
Magic caused the war. Magic is forbidden. Magic will save us. The Relic Guild is the award nominated first book in The Relic Guild trilogy.
It was said the Labyrinth had once been the great meeting place, a sprawling city at the heart of an endless maze where a million humans hosted the Houses of the Aelfir.
But when the Thaumaturgists, overlords of human and Aelfir alike, went to war, everything was ruined and the Labyrinth became an abandoned prison. The surviving humans were trapped behind boundary walls a hundred feet high, and all magic was forbidden.
And now the war is returning. The Relic Guild are all that stand against the end of the city. But they are old, scattered and weak, and the enemy is growing in strength...
Epilogue
The world is dead. Gone. Peeled away, like dead skin. Underneath, lies the nothing: a void between worlds, the sole occupants of which are malevolent shadow beings called glowdarks.
Only a select number of individuals possess the ability to peel their way into new worlds; they are the rippers. And Em is one of them. He can sense the "rips" scattered throughout each dimension and use them to peel through to the next world. But as Em and his group of survivors peel through world after world, battling glowdarks, zombies, and even gods, they discover that their world is not the only one that has ended. Everywhere they go, worlds are dying off, one by one.
And it's up to them to find out why.
If "The Walking Dead" were a young adult fantasy with dimension-hopping and shadow monsters, it might look something like this. Communities will be formed. Alliances will be broken. The road to survival will be paved with blood and entrails.
And death lurks behind every rip.
The Purgatorium
Dr. Hortense Gray practices experimental psychology on an uninhabited island off the coast of California where people go wanting to die and leave fighting to live. Seventeen-year-old Daphne Janus is her newest patient.
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Demon and Paladin: Book 1, Human
When Felix Chambers's Master, a retired paladin who goes by Rose, disappears under unclear circumstances, she leaves nothing but a vague note. Felix, a half-demon whose residence with Master Rose had been kept mostly secret, must rely on two recently made friends for help: a grouchy orphaned rogue, and a bubbly pink-haired eight year-old seeress. When they are taken in by an organization dedicated to slaying demons, more questions are raised than are answered. Who is the strange man with horns Felix was confronted by? Where was Master Rose? What was this vision more and more seers kept seeing, a vision that implied Felix decided the outcome of an entire war? This wasn't just any war, either. The strange man with horns leads an army of demons on one side, creatures from the lower world of Aksen. The humans and archons are on the other side, from the worlds of Neska and Endivask respectively. As if this weren't enough, being the decisive factor of a Massive war was just one of Felix's troubles. After binding his soul to a demon in an attempt to protect someone he loved, he became half-demon and obtained a dangerous, unstable alter-ego--Void. His volatile presence keeps the demon slayers at the organization nervous and on edge. It's only a matter of time before he kills someone--or worse--and Felix has no choice but to be brought to the attention of the law. It's only a matter of time before he's exposed to a world he's not ready for.
Ballad of Silence and Wings
(A retelling of the fairy tales "Seven Ravens" and "Six Swans") A silence to keep and a wicked queen to defeat. Eleven years ago, a kingdom fell to the hands of a sorceress. Its king was overthrown, and the royal family was struck down. Only the young Princess survived and fled the onslaught. The Princess returns, armed with a gold glaive and her Silence. By her side is the Caster, wielder of silver scimitars and spells, guide and protector. Together they set forth into the Glass Mountain, where the sorceress reigns as the immortal Queen. A tale of grievance and hatred, of lost dreams and those that go forth happily, and of love and hope that can emerge from the darkest of places - and so begins, and ends, the story of the silent Princess, the one marked by the golden cross, and her caster.
Screen Time
Before that winter, Clara had been a normal teenage girl. She spent about twelve hours a day using one of her family's many computers on an OnLife site. She'd never seen any of her friends in person. She'd hardly ever cracked a window or door. She'd never even left her own home. And why would she need to? Everything she could ever ask for was just a mere touch or simple command away from somewhere OnLife. Her necessities, her education, her career, her wants, and all the money she owns is all OnLife. But that's about to change... Somehow, one little mistake puts the US government on her tail. Clara has no choice but to leave her home and family to flee into the unknown, where she has to rely on instinct and make careful choices. Along the way, she makes interesting discoveries and is forced to wonder if everything she's ever known is real, or just a lie.
The Exalted
In which heroes set out to beat the ever loving shit out of a crazy man that transcended into godhood.
Saturday, April 2, 2016
HeroFall
The world's greatest heroes and villians are dead due to a single swift attack by a mysterious force. Only the heroes' teenaged kids survived and with nothing but questions. They decide to band together and fight against crime and supervilliany in their city despite their inexperience. A hunt for a killer and trying to become the heroes their parents were turns into madness as friendships are tested and battles are fought. Will they emerge as champions or will they all fall under the pressure?
Saturday, March 26, 2016
Saturday, March 12, 2016
Fyra
Aceria is a corrupt land, under the rule of a tyrannical King, and Fyra, a thief who is more than she seems, has seen the kingdom's suffering firsthand. She worked as a slave in the iron mines at Redmont, and wandered the impoverished towns and cities. She saw her mother slaughtered right in front of her, and has seen people with gifts like hers burned, drowned and imprisoned. She doesn't believe she had the strength to change anything. So Fyra runs, town to town, living off the wealthy. Fyra is keeping secrets: about who she is, her affinity for fire, and the dark forces poisoning the kingdom. When she is caught, and brought to Castle Bluedale, the place she has only seen in her nightmares, she befriends the prince, a charming yet infuriating mystery. But her past comes back to haunt her, and new enemies in the castle bring her nightmares to life.
Saturday, March 5, 2016
Spies, Thieves, and Revolutionaries
All Dinah Ahmadi wanted was better living conditions for the people of her tribe. Instead, she got the chance of a merciless revenge. A chance that will turn her world upside down. Motivated by all the wrong reasons, Dinah revolts against the Crown. Desperate for help, she relies on a shady traveler, an exiled prince, and a retired prostitute turned brothel madam. She journeys the Empire with her band of misfits, meeting mysterious, mischievous creatures, and rallying troops for her cause. Guided by her flaming blood lust that will only be satisfied by the sweet nectar of revenge, Dinah awaits the day of judgement. The day the guilty will burn.
Night Rider
Dear Unsuspecting Reader, I'm sure you're wondering by now what this book is about, considering you had the courage to pick this book from the title alone. Whether or not you decide to read the entirety of this novel (or not as the case may be), it is none of my concern, business or problem. The only thing I care about is getting out of this hellhole alive. If that means I have to tell someone my story then so be it. I am the Night Rider. (Don't ask about the name, I didn't come up with it.) Many fear me. I don't know why. Maybe it's the fact that I have brutally killed thousands of people without so much as a hint of remorse, let alone regret. What can I say? I'm a people person. But you can't say I didn't have my reasons for doing so. Revenge is a good a reason as any. But if you think you're brave enough, be my guest. You can't say I didn't warn you.
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Shift
Kayden Lee is a girl from New Jersey with newly divorced parents, absent friends, and an annoyingly perfect cousin staying with her for an entire summer. Blaze Merg is a wizard... but not a particularly good one. He's still surprised that he managed to graduate from school, and finding a job has proved to be a lot more difficult than expected. Their lives become intertwined just as the magical world erupts into chaos. Spells begin failing, people start dying, and the two are magically bound together against their will. As the magical community struggles to survive without magic, Blaze and Kayden try to find a way to break the spell that has physically bound them together. But as they navigate through magical politics, they must also control their growing attraction to one another, which may just be another unfortunate side effect of their spell gone wrong.
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Infection
An infection has spread. Symptoms: Blurred vision, bleeding, insatiable hunger for human flesh. Causes: Unknown. Cure: Unknown. Desi woke up one morning to find the infection right at her front door step, literally. Fighting for a life that she isn't even sure she wants anymore, Desi must learn that it is okay to love again when everything is lost. Falling in love isn't easy with infected biting at your heels, but once Desi finds it again she will do whatever it takes to keep her and her love alive.
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Dead Men Tell No Tales
'When the oceans run red with the blood of all men; when the skies darken and the wind falls silent; then you will know that the world has come to an end. And as you mutter your last prayer to the gods, know that this was their doing. The sea is theirs to rule and theirs alone. '. Jack Coolidge is fleeing life at sea, desperate for another existence, any other existence. But when war breaks out in Oldiron's distant territories, Jack finds himself propelled back into a deadly game of lies and hellish plots. Press-ganged into the King's Navy, Jack must decide where his true loyalties lie, and whether there is any escape for a man of his standing in a war of titans and rogues. Gwendalyn Ackers has fought her way to a position of power, high among the pirating elite in the New Age World, a position she would cling to until death. But after a mysterious child finds his way aboard her ship, things start to fall apart. She finds herself at the heart of deep-rooted conspiracy that would destroy the world she has created for herself and drag up a past she would much rather forget. As the lives of pirates, marauders and sailors become more and more entwined, it becomes clear that the only way to survive the war is to win in a fickle game to rule the seas.
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Assassin One
She doesn't have a name, she is simply Assassin One. The best assassin. She was sold into the business and rose ranks by doing unspeakable things, things that still haunt her. She climbed to the top of the foodchain for a reason, but with her future looking as bleak as her past she starts to get reckless; cut corners. One day the Colonel assigns her to kill Harris Rush, a rich heir to an oil fortune. She's killed hundreds, maybe even thousands until he makes her falter. She chokes. No one had escaped the barrel of my gun until Harris Rush. He makes her a proposition of a lifetime and once again she is left with no choice or so she thinks. "Do you want freedom, or do you want to die?"
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Whitecliff Academy
-DavidMusk
Twenty years have passed since the forces of humanity joined together to overthrow their rulers-an ancient and supernatural race of beings known as Aeons. After many years of being hunted and purged for the tyranny of their ancestors, the Aeons have been forced to retreat into the deep corners of the world. Many of them claim only to want peace, and an end to the bloodshed of their race. One of these people is Nahlia Cole. Her mother was an Aeon, killed fifteen years ago during the purge. Now she lives in secret with her father in the small, peaceful village of Northshire. But when Nahlia's father is arrested by the Templar order, she's forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from a fellow Aeon who promises to rescue her father, she will have to use her lineage to gain access to Whitecliff Academy, the last known Aeon sanctuary in the world. Now, Nahlia is thrust into a secret world where young members of the great Aeon clans are secretly trained in the arts of war and combat. As the intentions of their enemy become clear, Nahlia is forced to choose between her family and the future of her entire race.
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