Terry Scarborough is a controversial legal scholar who loves headlines. His new book goes too far: he resurrects forgotten language in the U.S. Constitution and hints at a missing letter from Thomas Jefferson that could tear the nation apart. The letter allegedly deals with slavery and scandal at America’s founding. While on a publicity tour, Scarborough is brutally murdered in a San Diego…
Beatrice "Tris" Prior was born into Abnegation, but never felt truly selfless. During her aptitude test, she gets inconclusive results for Abnegation, Dauntless, and Erudite. The tester, Tori, warns her: “You’re Divergent.” Divergents don’t fit one faction – and the government hunts and kills them because they can’t be controlled.
After overthrowing the Erudite and ending the faction system, Evelyn Johnson – Tobias’s mother – takes control of Chicago and imposes her own factionless dictatorship. She wants to erase the past by putting everyone on trial, executing former leaders, and forbidding anyone from leaving the city.
Out with the old, in with the new, and on with the party!” This is a sparkling collection of 9 short stories by rising women’s fiction authors. All the stories use December 31st → January 1st as the backdrop. The magic of midnight, confetti kisses, and champagne toasts sparks new romance, new attitudes, and new lives.
The death of the Demon King in Episode 1 wasn’t the end. A more ancient and cunning force from the Demon Realm awakens – the Primordial Demon Lord, who was sealed by Ling Yao’s god-father centuries ago. He blames Ling Yao for his seal breaking.
Luce, Daniel, and their angel companions have only nine days to save the world. Lucifer plans to recreate the Fall and rewrite history, erasing everything. To stop him, the group must find the exact location where the angels first fell to earth millennia ago
The story is told mainly through Mr. Gabriel John Utterson, a lawyer and friend of the respected Dr. Henry Jekyll. Utterson becomes troubled when his client Jekyll changes his will, leaving everything to a sinister, violent man named Edward Hyde. Utterson has heard disturbing stories about Hyde: he trampled a little girl in the street and paid off her family with a check signed by Dr. Jekyll…
The novel opens in a sordid Parisian tavern called The Poivrière. Three men have been murdered. A young, unknown police agent named Monsieur Lecoq arrives at the crime scene before the famous Inspector Gevrol. While Gevrol dismisses the case as a simple drunken brawl, Lecoq sees clues everyone else misses: footprints in the snow, a scrap of torn paper, the position of the bodies. He realize…
Ever since she was 10 years old, Rosalie Wright has had her eyes on the skies. The farmer’s daughter dreams of becoming an aviatrix. But at 18, just as she’s about to earn her pilot’s license, Britain enters World War II and civilian aviation is grounded. Her dream is put on hold. Then her father dies, leaving Rosalie, her mother, and her brothers to run the family farm. Everything cha…