Editora: Bluemoose Books
'When her mother dies, SAKTHI must unravel the truth to escape the same fate but with tragic consequences for everyone close to her. This is a story of love, sacrifice, and hope.'
Hades and his army are out for blood. Too bad I'm their target . . . Warden Blackwater has far from given up. I guess she didn't like the fact that I had four handsome friends willing to help me escape. Because now she's upped the stakes, putting a price on my head and on my men as well. And Hades is all too eager to claim the prize for himself. If that wasn't bad enough, now my brother is at the center of a millennia old family curse. And Blackwater plans to sacrifice him to subdue the curse. I wish I could say that my team was ready and rearing to battle it out with her and help me save my brother. But all isn't well between me and my men. Alexandros and Broderick straight up killed me in a past life and now they expect me to just get over it like it never happened? While my sweet Jaime, or should I say Zero's better half, plans to stay in prison forever just to keep me safe from him? And Drake? He claims to have had a change of heart and now he says he's in love with me. No way, I don't trust that crafty dragon as far as I can throw him. With Blackwater and Hades's army out to get us, will they even need to destroy us or will we sabotage ourselves first? Contains mature themes.Ver livro
Three men. One heart. And a choice that will change everything. Elizabeth I thought I was finally piecing my life back together. Then one mistake shattered everything I’d fought so hard to rebuild. I hurt the man I swore I'd love forever. I broke the promises I made to the people who mattered most. And when my world fell apart, I ran—to the only man who could help me: Fallon Montgomery. Fallon was supposed to be my sanctuary, my shelter from the storm. But he carried shadows of his own, secrets darker than I ever imagined. As the truth unraveled, I was left wondering—could my story ever have a happy ending? Or was I doomed to lose everything all over again? Fallon Elizabeth had always been my obsession. My weakness. The one woman I could never have. When her world fell apart, she came to me. But she didn’t know I was hiding the one truth that could destroy her. She thought I was her savior. She didn’t realize I was the villain in her love story.Ver livro
Love is a big deal! The term “love” is so generically thrown around, and we may naturally first think of it in romantic terms, but it’s much more. It’s a part of all our lives in various forms and countless ways. It profoundly affects us, and how we receive and give love significantly affects others. Throughout life, we will experience love through our familial and romantic relationships, friendships, and, most importantly, our relationship with God. Only by having a relationship with Christ can we effectively and rightly love others. To help you get the most out of this book, I will invite you at the end of each chapter to pause and answer specific questions about love and how it pertains to you. We all need more pauses–a moment or two to digest and reflect on what we’re learning.Ver livro
Candide is characterised by its sarcastic tone, as well as by its erratic, fantastical and fast-moving plot. A picaresque novel with a story similar to that of a more serious bildungsroman, it parodies many adventure and romance clichés, the struggles of which are caricatured in a tone that is mordantly matter-of-fact. Still, the events discussed are often based on historical happenings, such as the Seven Years' War and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. As philosophers of Voltaire's day contended with the problem of evil, so too does Candide in this short novel, albeit more directly and humorously. Voltaire ridicules religion, theologians, governments, armies, philosophies, and philosophers through allegory; most conspicuously, he assaults Leibniz and his optimism. Voltaire's men and women point his case against optimism by starting high and falling low. A modern could not go about it after this fashion. He would not plunge his people into an unfamiliar misery. He would just keep them in the misery they were born to. But such an account of Voltaire's procedure is as misleading as the plaster cast of a dance. Look at his procedure again. Mademoiselle Cunégonde, the illustrious Westphalian, sprung from a family that could prove seventy-one quarterings, descends and descends until we find her earning her keep by washing dishes in the Propontis. The aged faithful attendant, victim of a hundred acts of rape by negro pirates, remembers that she is the daughter of a pope, and that in honor of her approaching marriage with a Prince of Massa-Carrara all Italy wrote sonnets of which not one was passable. We do not need to know French literature before Voltaire in order to feel, although the lurking parody may escape us, that he is poking fun at us and at himself. His laughter at his own methods grows more unmistakable at the last, when he caricatures them by casually assembling six fallen monarchs in an inn at Venice. A modern assailant of optimism would arm himself with social pity. There is no social pity in "Candide." Voltaire, whose light touch on familiar institutions opens them and reveals their absurdity, likes to remind us that the slaughter and pillage and murder which Candide witnessed among the Bulgarians was perfectly regular, having been conducted according to the laws and usages of war. Had Voltaire lived today he would have done to poverty what he did to war. Pitying the poor, he would have shown us poverty as a ridiculous anachronism, and both the ridicule and the pity would have expressed his indignation.Ver livro
After losing both of her parents, Merritt Adams was forced to grow up. Now a bitter and jaded adult, she's convinced that the only person she can count on is herself. When she's injured in a fiery crash, Merritt has to learn how to accept help from her friends. But she isn't prepared for support from the popular musician she used to go to school with. Chase Brooks spent the last two years in California aspiring to become a rock star, but his dream is cut short when he receives word about his sick father. He returns home to be with his family, and ends up seeking solace in the one girl who knows what it's like to lose everything. Merritt fights her attraction to Chase every step of the way, refusing to let him in. But beneath his cocky charm and good looks, she finds a caring man who's hurting just as badly as she is. As they grow closer, the wall Merritt built around her heart begins to crumble. What Merritt doesn't know is that Chase holds the truth about who saved her from her mangled car the night of the accident—and it could destroy the trust he's worked so hard for. Two sad souls could be perfect for each other, but a secret might tear them apart. Contains mature themes.Ver livro
The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves. When the man calling himself Archie Leach begins spotting his dead lover at random locations around the city, he must finally stop running and face the truth—which may not be quite as he's remembered it all these years. An American living in Australia, Archie's had so many aliases that when he wakes up handcuffed to a hospital bed, he almost forgets which one he's supposed to use. With his delivery job derailed by a brief and inconvenient death, he's earned the wrath of his underworld boss, landing him an exorbitant repayment plan and the commandeering of his apartment for everything from corpse storage to Tuesday night yoga class. While recovering from his injuries, Archie is roped into dog-sitting for his new neighbor, Nisha, and a reluctant friendship ensues. She introduces Archie to the strange world of the Orrery, a nine-story mecca of surreal hedonism whose ninth level promises to hold the answers they're both seeking. But Nisha has spun plenty of her own deceptions, as Archie realizes too late. At this rate, they may both end up dead without ever knowing who's been fooling whom.Ver livro
