Pepper is a rambunctious big man, and, suddenly, the surprised inmate of a budget-strapped mental institution in Queens, New York. He's not mentally ill, but that doesn't seem to matter. On his first night, he's visited by a terrifying creature who nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It's no delusion: The other patients confirm that a hungry devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper ...
No one dies in Office Girl. Nobody talks about the international political situation. There is no mention of any economic collapse. Instead, this novel is about young people doing interesting things in the final moments of the last century. Odile is a lovely twenty-three-year-old art-school dropout, a minor vandal, and a hopeless dreamer. Jack is a twenty-five-year-old shirker who's most happy capturing the endless noises of the city on his ...
Wer die Wahl hat, hat die Qual – Layla wei? bald nicht mehr, wo ihr der Kopf steht, vom Herzen ganz zu schweigen. Die dunkle Seite der Macht lockt in Gestalt des sexy Damonen-Prinzen Roth, der die Abgrunde ihrer Seele besser kennt als jeder andere. Aber da ist auch noch der attraktive Wachter Zayne, ihre plotzlich gar nicht mehr so unerreichbare Jugendliebe. Wahrend sie noch mit ihren verwirrenden Sehnsuchten ringt, droht ein hollischer Feind al ...
Sonia i Mati nie znaja sie. Spotykaja sie przypadkowo na moscie. Oboje w tym samym czasie postanowili odebrac sobie zycie. Najpierw musza jednak ustalic, ktore z nich skoczy pierwsze. Po calonocnej rozmowie nadal nie moga sie zdecydowac, zadne z nich nie chce byc tym drugim. Jedynym wyjsciem wydaje sie odroczenie samobojczego planu. I tak Sonia i Mati daja sobie miesiac, by przekonac sie, ze moze warto zaufac swiatu. A moze i swiat zaufa im? W t ...
Lady Arabella Lucia Fairborne has no need for a husband. She has a fine inheritance for the taking, a perfectly capable mind, and a resolve as tough as nails. But what she doesn't have is the freedom to defy her cousin's will – and his will is to see her married immediately to the husband of his choosing. So is it any wonder that she dresses herself as a scullery maid and bolts into the night? Colin Somerville's current mission fo ...
In these marvelously inventive stories, Samantha Hunt imagines numerous ways in which human lives might be altered by the otherworldly: an FBI agent falls in love with a robot built for a suicide mission; a young woman unintentionally cheats on her husband when she is transformed into a deer; two strangers become lovers and find themselves responsible for the resurrection of a dog; a woman tries to start her life anew after the loss of a child b ...
Ryhalt Galharrow ist Hauptmann der Schwarzschwingen. Sie ubernehmen im Kampf gegen damonische Wesen die Drecksarbeit: Kopfgeldjagden, Morde, Einschuchterung, Folter. Ryhalt hat sich dieses Leben nicht ausgesucht, vielmehr trieb ihn sein Pech in diese erbarmlichen Lebensumstande. Und er ist gut in dem was er tut, auch wenn er manchmal seiner Ehre nachtrauert, die er dem Pragmatismus geopfert hat. Da trifft er seine Jugendliebe wieder und er wei?: ...
