Showing results for "Eclipse" in Literature & Fiction

Bella?' Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. His kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed...

Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but finds this impossible in a house brimming with presences, some ghostly, some undeniably human. Memories, anxiety for the future, and more particularly, for his beloved but troubled daughter, conspire to distract him from his dreaming retirement.

On Orion, the desert isn’t just terrain—it’s a system. Every few weeks, an event the colonists call the Eclipse rolls across the planet and turns certainty into static: sensors drift, maps lie, and the mind fills in gaps it cannot explain. Evan Kade, a blond Range Marshal for colony security, is sent beyond the Safe Band to recover a missing navigation core—the one piece of hardware that could guide an evacuation ship down through Orion’s interference.

It is 1541, and the crown of Hungary is up for grabs. King John, seeing that the Austrians are attacking with an innumerable force, petitions the Turks for assistance. King John then dies, leaving an infant son. While the Turkish army is en route, the Hungarians rally their forces, and beat back the Austrians themselves. Then, just as the Austrians are beating their final retreat, the main Turkish army arrives at the castle in Buda. And among their number is the sultan himself.

Mentre Seattle è funestata da una serie di strani omicidi e una vampira malvagia continua a darle la caccia, Bella Swan si trova ancora una volta in serio pericolo. È arrivato per lei il momento delle decisioni e dei sacrifici: basterà il fidanzato Edward a farle dimenticare il migliore amico Jacob? Troverà il coraggio necessario a diventare una Cullen? Obbligata a scegliere fra l'amore e l'amicizia, è consapevole che la sua decisione rischia di riaccendere la millenaria lotta fra vampiri e licantropi. Nel frattempo l'esame di maturità è alle porte e per Bella...

Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by the riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of the newborn vampire world she inhabits. In another irresistible combination of danger, mystery and romance, Stephenie Meyer tells the devastating story of Bree and the newborn army as they prepare to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to an unforgettable conclusion.

The Eclipse Grand is back with three new stories of love, deception, and second chances. Zara's a professional thief with her eyes on a priceless sapphire. Reyth's a charming rival with the same target. When they're forced to fake a relationship to throw off suspicion, the line between performance and reality starts to blur. But can two criminals who can't trust anyone learn to trust each other?

A desperate distress call reaches the Resolute. The CSS Lincoln is calling for help, but something isn't quite right. The Resolute sets course, not knowing they're heading into a deadly trap. After a devastating EMP strike, the Resolute is dead in space, and a brutal enemy boarding party seizes...

Jace Warin never wanted anything more than to attend the School of Swords and Serpents to escape the labor camps and restore his family's stained honor. But the determined young martial artist soon discovers the school he's always dreamed about is teeming with secret plots and sinister designs. To survive, he will have to master long-lost jinsei techniques, repair his wounded soul, and face down a most unexpected enemy: The Academy's ruthless headmaster and cunning professors.

They called them Aetherborn — humans whose Divinities could bend the laws of nature itself. Gods. When mythology and manifestation finally break into reality and evolve humans into to something - more, a global experiment to awaken superhuman potential goes wrong, and fragments of Aether Energy scatter across the world. The result: the rise of powered individuals, the birth of Chronos Academy, and the creation of the seven Sectors of Ascension. Akira Akuma , a 24-year-old lab worker and Uber driver, spends years enduring brutal tests in hopes of awakening.

Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin; her husband, the djinn David; and the Earth herself have been poisoned by a substance that destroys the magic that keeps the world alive. The poison is destabilizing the entire balance of power, bestowing magic upon those who have never had it, and removing it from those who need it. It's just a matter of time before the delicate balance of nature explodes into chaos - and doom.

Two years ago, October “Toby” Daye believed she could leave the world of Faerie behind. She was wrong. Now she finds herself in the service of Duke Sylvester Torquill, sharing an apartment with her Fetch, and maintaining an odd truce with Tybalt, the local King of Cats. It’s a delicate balance - one that’s shattered when she learns that an old friend is in dire trouble. Lily, Lady of the Tea Gardens, has been struck down by a mysterious, seemingly impossible illness, leaving her fiefdom undefended. Struggling to find a way to save Lily and her subjects, Toby must confront her own past....

Nothing was ever simple between a Madison and a Harte. The feud that had divided their families still simmered. Now, only months after their siblings' wedding, Lilian Harte and Gabe Madison are at each other's throats.

When two novice Starfinders, the energetic Dae and somber Chk Chk, make a startling discovery, they unlock a link to one of the galaxy’s most momentous events: the Gap, and the disappearance of the now lost world of Golarion. Shrouded in mystery, the Gap ended with mortals across the cosmos suddenly finding themselves with memories stripped from their minds without warning or explanation.

Ivy Moon's quest to save her mother and what is left of humanity continues in this compelling post-apocalypse duology of survival, mystery and discovery. Once known as the anti-Greta Thunberg (a title she shuns), Ivy learns about her past, drawing on her passion for truth and science to prevail against all odds. Stripped of her memory, her handful of friends, and Tonka, the West Highland Terrier that became her link to sanity, the girl who can't even remember her age sets off on a journey through a countryside where nature is re-surging with a vengeance.

Damon Pierce's life has just reached a defining moment: a gifted California lawyer, he's being divorced by his wife and his work often seems soulless. Then he receives a frantic e-mail from Marissa Brand Okari—a woman he loved years ago—and decides to risk everything to respond to her plea for help. Marissa's husband, Bobby Okari, is the charismatic leader of a freedom movement in the volatile west African nation of Luandia, which is being torn apart by the world's craving for its vast supply of oil.

Summer has arrived in Eclipse Bay and things are definitely heating up between the Hartes and the Madisons. It seems that the mysterious new gallery owner, Octavia Brightwell, is thinking about having a scandalous fling with that rogue Nick Harte before she leaves town. As far as Nick is concerned, a short-term affair sounds perfect. But it isn't going to be easy. One big obstacle is Mitchell Madison. For reasons of his own, Mitchell has taken it upon himself to play guardian to Octavia. He's made it clear that if Nick fools around with her, there will be a price to pay.

A string of smashing victories by the forces of the sinister aliens known as the Yuuzhan Vong has left New Republic resources and morale stretched to the breaking point. Leia Organa Solo, estranged from her husband, Han, oversees the evacuation of refugees on planets in the path of the merciless...

Sioban, Caleb et Logan se retrouvent séparés et parcourent le territoire dans une course à l'ultime bataille ! Pour sauver les siens, Sioban Calypsa a sacrifié sa vie en s'unissant au prince héritier des Sang-de-Soleil. Seulement voilà, leur fils est mort.

The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case—the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murder Damon Pierce's life has just reached a defining moment: a gifted California lawyer, he's being divorced by his wife and...