Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Fantasy - Contemporary

I'm no hero, no matter what people say. After all, you can't be a hero if you despise those that you're protecting. The way that I look at it, what I am is a matter of circumstance: I gave up dresses and skirts the day I watched my parents die. I was eight years old, and was mauled and scarred by the creature that killed them. If it hadn't been for the intervention of a half insane blacksmith I would have perished beside them. I survived, but was infected by the Blackness.

My face was tattooed when I was sixteen to hide my scars, and I started training under the brutal tutelage of one...

"Paul Reid died in the snow at seventeen. The day of his death, he told a lie-and for the rest of his life, he wondered if that was what killed him." And so begins the battle for the afterlife, known as The Commons. It's been taken over by a corporate raider who uses the energy of its souls to maintain his brutal control. The result is an imaginary landscape of a broken America-stuck in time and overrun by the heroes, monsters, dreams, and nightmares of the imprisoned dead. Three people board a bus to nowhere: a New York street kid, an Iraq War veteran, and her five-year-old special-needs...

Young Elof, a descendant of Norse gods, is retracing his father's voyage around the world in a magical wooden yawl, trying to make sense of why his father abandoned the family. When charming Reenie Gyse, an aging denizen of a city marina, draws Elof from his course, he's in danger not only of failing to come to grips with his heritage, but of losing his identity entirely.

A novella from award-winning author Katherine Starbird.

"An eerie, tantalizing story reminiscent of The Odyssey"

"The surprise ending made me...

Did you ever feel that someone was following you? Did you ever feel that there really was something out there in the dark or under the bed or in the closet?

Isabelle knows something's following her. She's a princess lost in time, forever separated from her home and her world. She's alone, but not all alone. Because something from her world is following her. Hunting her.

Isabelle knows what it is; she doesn't know if she can escape it. Isabelle knows what it wants; she doesn't know if she can kill it before it kills her.

Follow Isabelle on her journey and find out if...

Did you ever feel that someone was following you? Did you ever feel that there really was something out there in the dark or under the bed or in the closet?

Isabelle knows something's following her. She's a princess lost in time, forever separated from her home and her world. She's alone, but not all alone. Because something from her world is following her. Hunting her.

Isabelle knows what it is; she doesn't know if she can escape it. Isabelle knows what it wants; she doesn't know if she can kill it before it kills her.

Follow Isabelle on her journey and find out if...