Daily Archives: October 31, 2018

Shadowfall: Shadows Book Oneby TW Iain

The company enhanced Brice. They promised him action and adventure. But he’s stuck on a malfunctioning craft, with a crew who treat him like a child. He’s miles from home, in the worst storm of the season, and night is falling.

And in the shadows the creatures wait, their hunger growing.

The company prepared Brice for many things, but nothing can prepare him for what he must face when the shadows fall.

Shadowfall is the first book in the Shadows series, a dark combination of science-fiction and horror.

Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spentby N. D. Wilson

A poetic portrait of faith, futility, and the joy of this mortal life.

In this astoundingly unique book, bestselling author N.D. Wilson reminds each of us that to truly live we must recognize that we are dying. Every second we create more of our past—more decisions, more breathing, more love and more loathing, all of it slides by into the gone as we race to grab at more moments, at more memories made and already fading.

We are all authors, creators of our own pasts, of the books that will be our lives. We stare at the future or obsess about the present, but only the past has been set in stone, and we are the ones setting it. When we race across the wet concrete of time without purpose, without goals, without laughter and love and sacrifice, then we fail in our mortal moment. We race toward our inevitable ends without artistry and without beauty.

All of us must pause and breathe. See the past, see your life as the fruit of providence and thousands of personal narratives. What led to you? You did not choose where to set your feet in time. You choose where to set them next.

Then, we must see the future, not just to stare into the fog of distant years but to see the crystal choices as they race toward us in this sharp foreground we call the present. We stand in the now.  God says create. Live. Choose. Shape the past. Etch your life in stone, and what you make will be forever. 

Who We Were Beforeby Leah Mercer

Romantic Novel Award Nominee

Zoe knows that it wasn’t really her fault. Of course it wasn’t. But if she’d just grasped harder, run faster, lunged quicker, she might have saved him. And Edward doesn’t really blame her, though his bitter words at the time still haunt her, and he can no more take them back than she can halt the car that killed their son.

Two years on, every day is a tragedy. Edward knows they should take healing steps together, but he’s tired of being shut out. For Zoe, it just seems easier to let grief lead the way.

A weekend in Paris might be their last hope for reconciliation, but mischance sees them separated before they’ve even left Gare du Nord. Lost and alone, Edward and Zoe must try to find their way back to each other–and find their way back to the people they were before. But is that even possible?

CAME A SHADOW (The Shadow Trilogy Book 1)by Patrick Dakin

When he is eight years old Reuben Sykes kills his abusive father in a remote cabin in the mountains of Virginia. Although the act brings with it a sense of tremendous relief, Reuben takes no pleasure in it. The subsequent murder of his sister, though, is an entirely different matter. When done, in fact, his only regret is that he can’t kill her all over again.
Sixty-four years later, when four-year-old Sophie Crandall is abducted from her grandfather’s home in rural Maine, the ensuing investigation brings answers no one is prepared to hear.
A roller-coaster ride of a book that will thrill you, shock you, and ultimately leave you with a sense of dread.

AMAZON READER REVIEWS:
“I finished this book several days ago and it keeps visiting me anyway. This is definitely one of the best books I have ever read and I am an avid reader.”
“By far, one of the best suspense novels I’ve read in a long time. Dakin is a brilliant story teller.”
“Wow!!! This book is a true thriller!
“This is a first rate mystery/thriller. The story is very believable, and the characters are real and intriguing.”
“The story is extremely fast paced with brilliant narration.”
“Very intense! The characters are strong and backed by a solid plot. Just don’t think you have figured everything out until you read the last page.”
“Addictive! I’m truly hooked and wouldn’t have it any other way!!!!”
“Chilling. Tragedy begets horror in this unrelenting tale of serial murder. Dakin does a wonderful job of keeping his readers hoping for relief while he weaves tragedy, hope, love, hatred, and brutality into a masterwork worth reading.”

The Munich Girl: A Novel of the Legacies that Outlast Warby Phyllis Edgerly Ring

Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun.
Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did–that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.

The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.

Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante–and a tyrant’s lover–Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.

Eva’s story reveals that she never joined the Nazi party, had Jewish friends, and was credited at the Nuremberg Trials with saving 35,000 Allied lives. As Anna’s journey leads back through the treacherous years in wartime Germany, it uncovers long-buried secrets and unknown reaches of her heart to reveal the enduring power of love in the legacies that always outlast war.

What’s a Rogue Got To Do With Itby Samantha Holt

The final book in the #1 bestselling Regency romance series!
Lewis Knight left behind his life as the son of nobleman years ago. The rough, scarred man is quite content to use his brute force and bad reputation to help the Earl of Redmere with his smuggling–a ruse to aid the war effort. Knight doesn't care too much about the reasons behind the subterfuge, so long as he gets paid.
And stays busy enough to forget his past for good.
That's not so easy, however, when he's forced to return home. And thanks to the earl's meddling, he's accompanied by the woman who plagues his thoughts far too often…
Louisa has been too busy running her inn to think too much about the dark, brooding Knight. Even if she does steal the occasional glance at those broad shoulders. However, when a man arrives in Cornwall with life-changing news and Louisa's inn is threatened, she must investigate. With Knight's help, she digs into this stranger's past and stirs up more danger than she thought possible.
Now that Knight is driven to protect her, the barriers between them feel harder than ever to keep in place. Somehow, she keeps working her way under his unyielding exterior. But Knight knows he's not worthy of a woman like Louisa–not while his past shadows his every move.