Showing results for "Lullaby" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Life is more difficult than ever at Savannah's only ghost-hunting detective agency. While Ellie copes with her mentor's departure and other unwelcome developments, she also worries about the supernatural injuries keeping her boyfriend caught in an endless slumber.

GOD’S BLESSING ON THIS POPULAR NEET!There’s a new girl in town! And for some reason, she keeps calling Darkness “Mama.” Surely there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for that...right? Meanwhile, Darkness has taxes to collect! It’s time for the high-income adventurers to pay their...

Champions of the world ... until the end of time? New Rhye should have been a utopia. A glittering metropolis built on beauty and innovation, with King Mustapha jump-starting an Age of Harmony. But triumph soon became disaster: even a desperate quest to the edge of Rhye could not prevent the ultimate calamity. The entire timeline became an elaborate trap set by Marnis, the Creator ... designed to ensnare the seraph and destroy him, along with everything he had made. With Death on their very heels, Mustapha and his companions escaped with their lives.

Shes a dreamweaver at odds with her king. He's a prince, a broken royal unable to love. Can they survive a celestial nightmare? Dreamweaver Alissandra refuses to let her powerful father enslave her Wake realm charges. Forced by the formidable god to choose a side, she sacrifices her immortality...

The world has collapsed. Relentless blizzards erode what’s left into a barren husk, and the fractured remnants of humanity sleep with a weapon in hand. Weathered by it all, Leper has gone numb. As a robot from a bygone era, all he needs to do is maintain his battery and keep out of sight, but when he opens the long-buried cryopod he has been searching for, Leper is faced with a terrified little girl. Alone, he was invincible. Now a fragile life is at stake, and Leper must scour the unyielding wasteland to provide food and shelter. But will he ever be enough for her?

Killian's scars are all people see, but with his wretched past, he doesn't want them to look closer. He resigned himself long ago to living as an indentured slave to a powerful and capricious high mage-until a chance meeting with a temptress outside a brothel teaches him to want. If only he hadn't asked her price for the night.

Something else. These are the words John Hawthorne whispers on a forgotten back road when a passing cloud reveals the moon. Something else. For the moon cannot shine without the sun, and so its presence above can only mean there are other forces at play behind the night.

For fans of Black Mirror and The Handmaid's Tale, in Dark Lullaby a mother desperately tries to keep her family together in a society where parenting standards are strictly monitored. Kit is an 'out', she doesn't want children. Infertility is universal and she has witnessed the agonies of her...

Children going missing. A corrupt police officer. A drug-dealing motorcycle gang. A car breaking down on the way to see the Great American Bash. And Daniel Belascoe deals with it all while trying to impress the woman of his dreams—who is far too smart for him. Long before Daniel raised his tough-as-nails daughter Bethany Belascoe, he was a rookie Savannah cop trying to do some good despite his rotten partner. When that partner seems guilty of more than just negligence, Daniel begins investigating.

The dragons are reawakening. All the signs indicate as much. The duration of the spell that forced the beasts into magically prolonged slumber has nearly elapsed. The fanatical Cult of the Wyrm, secretly worshipping the power of the creatures throughout the dark centuries, has come out of hiding and is murdering those whom it believes have the power to reinstate the spell. And the now-forgotten caverns where the wyrms were confined so many centuries ago shake with the stirrings of the restless dragons.

Un cuento de la criada en el mundo moderno. Una crisis de infertilidad asola el mundo, el último parto natural se produjo hace más de veinte años y ahora la única forma de concebir es someterse a un doloroso tratamiento de fertilidad. Todo recién nacido es estrictamente monitorizado, y si...

"...If those cute little mushrooms die, Daddy's gonna take you to the mound so high..." In the highly anticipated second installment of Luxe's Lullaby Trilogy, Luxe and her companions find themselves facing even greater challenges as they delve deeper into the dangerous world of the fae. The...

A secluded cottage. A ringing phone. A voice that knows your name. When Sarah escapes to a remote cabin deep in the woods, she expects peace—a break from the noise of the world, a chance to be alone. But something is wrong here. The silence feels unnatural. The shadows stretch too far. And then the phone rings. At first, she thinks it’s a wrong number. A strange, childlike voice sings a nursery rhyme before the line goes dead. But the calls keep coming. The voice begins to mock her. It laughs when she’s afraid. It whispers from just outside her window. It knows exactly where she is.

On the eve of Charder’s age-related death, 10 years after the events in the Hunters Unlucky novel, Arcove comes to tell Charder goodbye. Their conversation sparks a chain of events that will have a profound impact on the rest of the island, as well as on Arcove personally. “Lullaby” appears for the first time in this collection.

The old house waited. For years there had been rumors that the owner, Lilith Martin, had been part of an unholy cult. People spoke of blasphemous rituals, black rites filled with blood, sex...and sacrifices. Then Lilith died and the house sat empty. Until now. Lilith’s nephew, Chris, and his wife, Ellie, are moving in. Ellie isn’t happy about living in such a dark, foreboding place, but she wants to get pregnant and this house has a lot more room to raise a baby than their apartment. Unfortunately, she and Chris will soon learn that Lilith has other plans.

In a distant galaxy, far, far away, but really a lot closer than one would think, lies the fantastic, floral, fields of Florapopadrop. On this flowery paradise, The Empire of the Sunflowers and The Great and Harmonic Nation of the Moonlily wage an ancient, passive aggressive war to control the fate, freedom, and harmony of their planet.

...If that magic hill canna be climbed Daddy’s gonna give you a bluebell chime If that flower doesn’t make a sound You’ll still be the sweetest little princess crowned. In the gripping conclusion to Luxe's Lullaby Trilogy, time slips away as war looms and possible allies dwindle. Just as...

Listen... Do you hear that? The gentle lullaby floating on the breeze? JUST DON'T LET IT IN! Be careful, for it might be the last thing you ever hear. Prepare for a mind-bending plunge into terror with "The Lullaby Virus" - a gateway to your deepest fears. Brace yourself for a heart-stopping...

Known as Black Irish to the rogue vampires he hunts, Joe Gunn returns to face an ancient power known as The Dreamer who the vamps fear more than sunlight. The Dreamer wishes to launch an all out war against the vampires that would result in countless human deaths and plunge the world into a new dark age.

England 1891, and when Natalya's woodland village is attacked by witch hunters, she flees to the fog-filled streets of London. There, she is befriended by pickpocket, Nathan Croft, who introduces her to Ella Cinders, the owner of a burlesque cabaret bar. Natalya’s life, however, continues to be plagued by the strange world that keeps intruding on her own.