Twenty madcap tales profile people with therapists who destroy marriages and family ties, husbands and lovers whose greatest cruelty is their indifference, and clever women steering the perils of domesticity. Reprint. NYT.
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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Wicked Muse; Cindy Springsteen
Opposites are all around us: hot and cold, light and dark, love and hate. Scripture is full of opposites, too: right and wrong, godliness and sin, good and evil. God's Word defines what is evil and what is good as well as the consequences and results of both choices.Larry Swaim is the author of Set in Stone, Growing Older in God's Grace, The Christian and Good Mental Health, and Faith: The Christian's Hope and Shield. In his newest study, Wicked or Worthy, he dissects what are commonly called the "seven deadly sins" and offers the virtues that counter each one.
When her seismic expos of religious abuses lands on the best-seller list, Professor Mira Veron becomes a darling of the literati and a target for religious extremists and culture-warriors alike. With her soon-to-be-ex-husband scheming to undermine her, her opportunistic agent attempting to cash in on her name, and a seductive born-again assassin tracking her every move, she meets up with a publishing tycoon who is guarding a volatile secret. Veron is drawn into an underground network by the promise of cataclysmic religious revelations only to watch as her new associates mysteriously die one by one. Under siege by forces seen and unseen, she embarks on a desperate quest for answers. Now she must choose between defending her work and defending her life. Fans of Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Dan Brown and Minette Walters will enjoy this suspenseful exploration of religion and politics, atheism and evangelism, secularism and domestic terrorism, in twenty-first century America.
Belimai Sykes is many things: a Prodigal, the descendant of ancient demons, a creature of dark temptations and rare powers. He is also a man with a brutal past and a dangerous addiction. And Belimai Sykes is the only man Captain William Harper can turn to when faced with a series of grisly murders. But Mr. Sykes does not work for free and the price of Belimai's company will cost Captain Harper far more than his reputation. From the ornate mansions of noblemen, where vivisection and sorcery are hidden beneath a veneer of gold, to the steaming slums of Hells Below, Captain Harper must fight for justice and for his life. His enemies are many and his only ally is a devil he knows too well. Such are the dangers of dealing with the wicked.
Wicked War of Mine: Book Nine of the Overworld Chronicles
Raven House
2014
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Winner, 2012 Sandy Literary Contest - 1st place - YA category "I LOVED this book. LOVED the romance." - JILLIAN DODD, best-selling author of That Boy and Stalk Me Witches inhabit our world, organized in covens and hiding behind a shroud of secrecy--the Veil. Skye's London coven sends her to Seattle's Greenwood High to find the Singularity, an unusually gifted witch who may break the Veil and trigger a dangerous new era of witch-hunting. Things get complicated when Skye meets a charming new classmate, Drake. Skye's job becomes even trickier when she clashes with Jane, an intimidating rival witch. Drake falls for the mysterious Skye, but odd accidents, potion mix-ups, and the occasional brush with death kind of get in the way of romance. Once he discovers Skye is a witch, he goes to war for her, even though his only weapons are a nice set of abs and a sharp sense of humor. Fighting off wicked Jane and the other dark forces hell-bent on seizing the Singularity's immense power, Skye and Drake will risk everything to save the covens. Going on a date has never been harder.
Wicked Legends by Yda Addis
Parhelion House
2018
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Yda Addis's "Wicked Legends" is a collection of psychological thrillers; through the use of drama, horror, and mystery she illustrates some folktales from the 16th to the 19th centuries Mexico. Exciting and provocative her stories are curious remnant of an America in the past.
What's worse than getting caught up in your own personal drama and feeling as if your back is against the wall and you have no friends to talk to?Christian Johnson-Banks travels to Los Angeles, California in hopes of finding her mother and bringing her back to Detroit, Michigan. Christian has no real memories of her mother so while dealing with the hopes of building a relationship with her mother, Christian is also dealing with the wicked attraction she has towards her father's baby brother with whom she's had a sexual relationship with since she was a young teenager.Caught up in a sticky situation, Christian tries to cope with her feelings for her uncle as well as find a way to end the relationship with him without her father and husband finding out her sick secret.
An island paradise hides a fiery secret. Will it be their salvation... or their doom? A freak storm tosses Ryan O'Rourke, demon assassin, onto a mysterious island teeming with magic. Escape seems impossible, but a far greater threat stirs within the tropical haven. A demon, imprisoned for millennia, hungers for freedom. It's goal: destroy the world Ryan left behind. Thrust through the veil of time, Morgan, an enchanting Druid sorceress, finds herself bound to the beast by a perilous magic. Light and darkness war within her, and she's the only one who can stop the demon's rise. But Morgan harbors a secret as potent as her magic-a fated connection with Ryan. Their mission? Stop an apocalypse. Their obstacle? Each other. Ryan conceals a plan for the demon, one that clashes with Morgan's desperate quest. Forced into an alliance, they must navigate treacherous landscapes riddled with betrayals, ancient curses, and an igniting passion. As the demon's power grows, so does the undeniable pull between them. But love is a luxury they can't afford when Earth's salvation hangs in the balance. Can they outrun fate and save the world, or will their desires become their undoing?
My mother was a wicked witch. And all her spells ever brought was trouble. Since her death, with no power of my own, I've stayed far, far away from magic . . . In a San Francisco struggling to recover from earthquakes and rising seas, and where technology can do things that are close enough to magic anyway, Maggie Lachlan is a computer whisperer. The one they call when no one else can find the elusive bug bringing a complex system to its knees. They call her the Techwitch. But she knows there's nothing magical about what she does. It's just hard-earned skill. So when Damon Riley, owner of the world's biggest virtual reality gaming company comes calling with a problem that his entire empire of geeks can't fix, Maggie leaps at the job. Riley Arts is the kind of place she feels at home. Wall-to-wall tech. No magic. Except, perhaps, for the unsettling chemistry she has with the man in charge. But she never imagined stepping into one of Damon's games would reveal her mother lied about Maggie's magic. Or that technology could break a spell she never knew she was under. Now she has a demon hunting her and a whole world she knows nothing about to navigate. To save herself--and the world--she needs to learn fast. Because, when it comes to magic, too many games are wicked. And if you lose, the price can be very, very high . . . The intriguing start to a new dark and sexy Urban Fantasy series from M.J. Scott, RITA(R) Award nominated author of The Four Arts series and the Half-Light City series.
WILL THE NEW ANKH SURVIVE IMMORTAL TESTING?You will be blushing and busting a gut laughing as our stone-cold feral heroine hunts things that go bump in the night You'll be all in so fast you won't even have time to raise your freak flag Orin was surprisingly fine with being a relief pitcher. Tiberius was becoming impossible to resist, and Grey was boiling rabbits in the backyard, jealous. What could go wrong?A scifi fantasy dark comedy romp through the afterlife with three Clans of naughty immortal antiheroes. Partnered with her nemesis at the Third -Tier World Summit awaiting news of the Ankh in Immortal Testing, a titillating encounter between battle rounds leaves her with an urgency to experience all the dark attraction has to offer, but there are sacrifices to stop, otherworldly inventions and cloned famous earthlings being used as dinosaur snacks. Her Handler has been spelt to forget intimacy, and it's driving her crazy. She'd always despised Tiberius with every inch of her being, but lately, his presence sparked something undeniable within her. If she acted on this dark attraction, the shit show would be gloriously epic. Self-destructive was her factory setting, and her Handler was in dire need of a reality check. She was so tempted. Foreplay between Dragons, that's what this was. During a journey to another world where restrooms are death traps and cloning famous mortals for entertainment is a thing, reckless choices after a dark plot twist creates tension within the Clan. As the dust settles, we find ourselves back on Earth in the daily grind of immortality with temptations to quench, Corrections to witness and demons to destroy. It's a hard knock afterlife. I was so morbidly fascinated by this character, I couldn't stop reading This book was an all-nighter. The love scenes are... you'll see. I may be blushing for a week. You'll be jumping up and down cheering. There is nothing like this series. Warning: The information contained within this book is not intended for mere mortals. Reading this may inadvertently trigger your Correction. If you show great bravery during your demise, you may be given a second chance by one of the three Guardians of the in-between. For your soul's protection, you must join one of the three Clans of immortals on Earth. You are totally still reading this, aren't you? You've got this. Welcome to the Children Of Ankh Series Universe. READ IT NOW