First Arcadia

Sloane Swinton

Sinossi

Serendipity…
 
For the better part of twenty-five years, both Octavia Fiske and Armand Mundy have long awaited this particular weekend.
 
For Fiske, the CEO of the Norwood Fox, this weekend represents new beginnings, as the company morphs into an undeniable behemoth. While for Mundy, it’s the opposite; the end of the Air Force major general’s tenure acting as lead mechanical engineer on the globe’s prototype autarkical space station—the First Arcadia.
 
Originally conceived by her father and the company’s founder, Maynard Fiske, and built by some of the finest minds to ever walk the planet, First Arcadia is a dream come true to governments and citizens alike.
 
Essentially, the station seeks to become humanity’s primary gateway to the heavens. Something you can’t put a price on, although Fiske and her constituents are determined enough to try.
 
And it is their greed that ultimately may doom us all as the space station is commandeered by a rogue faction that seems to know the true magnitude of the First Arcadia’s power.
 
Unfortunately for Mundy and his protégé, Max Conaway, they are unwittingly pressed into duty to act as the planet’s last line of defense. Should they fail in their mission, the results may prove catastrophic.
 
Heaven is undeniably in hell!

Disponibile da: 24/07/2024.

Lunghezza di stampa: 349 pagine.

Altri libri che potrebbero interessarti

She and Allan

H. Rider Haggard

In "She and Allan" by H. Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain embarks on a perilous journey to Ethiopia, where he encounters the mesmerizing Ayesha, the immortal queen from "She." As their paths intertwine, they face danger, intrigue, and betrayal while unraveling ancient mysteries tied to Ayesha’s past reign and mystical powers. Amidst sweeping landscapes and hidden kingdoms, Quatermain grapples with his growing fascination for Ayesha, whose ambitions challenge his sense of morality. The novel blends adventure, romance, and mysticism as it explores themes of destiny, love, and humanity's quest for meaning in an unforgiving world.

Mostra libro

Black Acorns

Vanessa Gordon

Archaeologist Martin Day had an affair with Ophelia Blue twenty years ago, and suddenly she is on her way to Naxos because she needs his help. He is excited to see her again, but also wary as his life now revolves around Helen. Ophelia, however, behaves perfectly - until she disappears after their first evening together without revealing why she had come. The police refuse to regard Ophelia as a missing person, nor is the difficult new Chief of Police, Inspector Kyriakos Tsountas, the kind of man to accept that her disappearance is connected to a strange local legend. The legend speaks of a lost ancient artefact known as the Kallos of Naxos. Only one man ever tried to find the Kallos, and he's dead. If Day is to find Ophelia he will need all his ingenuity and imagination, and quite possibly his courage.

This is the fourth in the Naxos Mysteries series, in which many things come to a head for Martin Day in his search for the missing Ophelia.

Mostra libro

Hunting of the Snark The...

Lewis Carroll

The Hunting of the Snark is a long nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll describing the adventures of ten weirdly assorted characters as they pursue an elusive creature known as a snark. (Summary by Shawn Craig Smith)

Mostra libro

Las money

Aaron Sherrard Lucas

When a $2 million reparations check comes with a seven-day deadline to leave the country; or be hunted under the ruthless sweep act. Three strangers are thrust into a deadly race for survival. LAS MONEY is a high-speed dystopian thriller where trust is scarce, betrayal is everywhere, and every step toward freedom could be your last.

Mostra libro

Only the River Knows

Linda Norlander

A murder in the wings. A cold case resurrected. And a killer ready for an encore. 
The curtain rises on Lykkins Lake's community theater production of The Music Man—but the show turns deadly before the first line is spoken. During auditions, director Amanda Brodie spots someone on stage and bolts in fear. The next morning, her body surfaces in the dark waters beneath an abandoned railroad bridge. 
Sheriff Red Hammergren's investigation quickly leads to a chilling discovery: decades ago, Amanda's sister was murdered in an unsolved case that shook the town. Now, Red suspects the two crimes are connected—and someone in the tight-knit theater troupe knows more than they're letting on. 
As the spotlight swings from center stage to long-buried secrets, Red races to uncover the truth. But the killer is already rehearsing their next move—and this time, the final act could be Red’s.

Mostra libro

Juvenalia

Jennifer Burke

Rome, 58 AD. Aemilius Valerius is on the up and up. His reputation has been rehabilitated, he has established a fledgling career, and he has new friends in very powerful places. When one of those new friends, the poet Lucan, is attacked, Valerius is given an offer he can’t refuse: find the culprits before they strike again. But when every man in Lucan’s circle of poets and playwrights and artists is potentially a suspect, each one of them competing for the emperor’s favor, how is Valerius supposed to tell the difference between petty jealousy and murderous rage? Meanwhile, the Vigile Junius Atreus has his own violent crime to investigate, and the more he and Valerius dig around, the murkier and more dangerous things become.Can Valerius and Atreus solve the crimes and save their reputations—and their lives—before the Juvenalia, Nero’s birthday extravaganza of poetry, plays, musical performances, and dance? On the plus side, if they get murdered, at least they won’t have to sit through that.

Mostra libro