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Undead Winter
by T. M. WilliamsOne little touch. That's all it takes for the darkness to penetrate. To infect. To destroy. A plague has incapacitated humanity, spreading across the globe faster than it could ever possibly be contained. Almost overnight the world is awakened to a new reality and the realization that no one is safe, not a single living soul. As the virus takes control, humanity is brought crashing to its knees. The few left untouched fight frantically for their survival, even as they know their future no longer exists, doing the uninmaginable at the brink of death. A dark tale that shows exactly how desperate, how dark, humanity can get once the undead winter arrives. You'll be thrust into peoples lives, emotions, and the very depths and darkest reaches of our souls and guilt will set in when you're begging for more. This short story will haunt readers long after the last page has been read. A story you will want to read over and over.
Undead and Unworthy
by Maryjanice DavidsonSince tying the knot with Sinclair, like hasn't been all marital bliss for Betsy. Sinclair has been perusing The Book for the Dead, Betsy's being hounded by a ghost who's even more insufferable in death than in life, and a pack of ancient vampires has decided to pay an unwelcome visit.
Undead with Benefits
by Jeff HartWith its heartwarming blend of guts, romance, and humor, this road trip-ready sequel to Eat, Brains, Love is The Walking Dead meets John Hughes.Jake and Amanda are in love, on the run--and undead. They've picked up a new psychic friend, ex-government-zombie-hunter Cass, and are making a break for Iowa, where a cure for the rapidly spreading zombie virus is rumored to be waiting. But in order to find it, they have to contend with an unlikely undead warlord, ghoul-infested cornfields, a psycho psychic out for blood, and their own super-awkward love triangle--all before Iowa goes up in flames.Every reader with a pulse (or without one) will devour Jeff Hart's surprisingly romantic and laugh-out-loud funny take on friendship, love, and finding the meaning of (un)life in an eat-or-be-eaten world.
Undeadly
by Michele VailThe day I turned 16, my boyfriend-to-be died. I brought him back to life. Then things got a little weird...Molly Bartolucci wants to blend in, date hottie Rick and keep her zombie-raising abilities on the down-low. Then the god Anubis chooses her to become a reaper-and she accidentally undoes the work of another reaper, Rath. Within days, she's shipped off to the Nekyia Academy, an elite boarding school that trains the best necromancers in the world. And her personal reaping tutor? Rath.Life at Nekyia has its pluses. Molly has her own personal ghoul, for one. Rick follows her there out of the blue, for another...except, there's something a little off about him. When students at the academy start to die and Rath disappears, Molly starts to wonder if anything is as it seems. Only one thing is certain-Molly's got an undeadly knack for finding trouble....
Under Her Spell: A Novel
by K. L. CerraA woman who returns to her hometown to investigate her childhood friend&’s disappearance soon finds herself embroiled in a deadly web of half truths, cover-ups, and dark magic. On the surface, Liv Edwards has a near-perfect life—a handsome new fiancé, an apartment in Boston, and plans to launch a career in law. No one would suspect how hard she&’s worked to conceal the strange darkness that often bubbles up inside her. But Liv&’s polished façade threatens to crack with the arrival of a letter from her childhood best friend, Sam. The chilling message is folded into the shape of a heart like the notes they passed in high school: I need help. Liv is still haunted by what she did to destroy her friendship with Sam. High school was hard enough without having to start over in a new town, but with Sam, Liv grew into herself like never before. Now Liv resolves to do right by Sam—except when she returns to her small New England hometown, she is too late. Sam has disappeared and clues suggest foul play. To add to the mystery, Sam has transformed over the years, living with the odd girls from high school, Eden and Cora, and working at their esteemed bridal boutique. Liv reconnects with them in search of answers. With couture gowns, exquisite cakes, and a glittering display room, these women make fairy tales come to life, and Liv, too, can be a part of it all. But as Eden and Cora teach her to harness the qualities that have always made her feel different, Liv discovers that a much darker reality may be lurking beneath the satin and pearls—and within herself.
Under a Blood-red Moon (Duncan Andrews Thrillers #5)
by Stephen OsborneSequel to Dead EndA Duncan Andrews ThrillerPrivate Detective Duncan Andrews is back, along with the usual gang: Robbie, Gina, Nick, and Daisy, the zombie bulldog! Duncan is trying to figure out how his boyfriend, Robbie, will fit in with the team now that he is no longer a ghost. That worry is soon set aside when Duncan accepts a new case to locate a missing young man named Graig Betz. Duncan soon learns Graig is part of a werewolf pack that is terrorizing Indianapolis. The pack is led by a witch, Ashley Campbell, an old rival of Gina's. Duncan and his team must try to rescue and cure Graig and stop the wolf pack from destroying an entire city.
Under a Dark Angel's Eye: The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
by Patricia HighsmithBy the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train* 'By opening this book, you've given Patricia Highsmith permission to follow you, catch you, take you apart. Get ready to run' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO* 'Every story shimmers like a dark gem as Highsmith turns her gimlet eye on domesticity, suburban madness, toxic families and the loneliness of childhood. Often mordantly funny and always psychologically acute, this collection is not to be missed' MEGAN ABBOTT* 'The sheer macabre, amoral brilliance of Patricia Highsmith surely makes her one of the finest writers in the English language' RICHARD OSMANINTRODUCED BY CARMEN MARIA MACHADOPatricia Highsmith was one of the great twentieth-century novelists, celebrated for classics The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train, but she was also a masterful and prolific short-story writer. This definitive new collection, featuring two stories that have never been published before, confirms Highsmith as a genius of the genre. Peerlessly disturbing, exhilarating and savagely funny, Highsmith's stories still have the power to startle, presenting a world that is frighteningly familiar and as relevant today as when they were written.* Includes two newly discovered stories* This is the only volume of Highsmith's stories to select from a lifetime of short-story writing
Under a Dark Angel's Eye: The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith (Virago Modern Classics #814)
by Patricia HighsmithBy the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train* 'By opening this book, you've given Patricia Highsmith permission to follow you, catch you, take you apart. Get ready to run' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO* 'Every story shimmers like a dark gem as Highsmith turns her gimlet eye on domesticity, suburban madness, toxic families and the loneliness of childhood. Often mordantly funny and always psychologically acute, this collection is not to be missed' MEGAN ABBOTT* 'The sheer macabre, amoral brilliance of Patricia Highsmith surely makes her one of the finest writers in the English language' RICHARD OSMANINTRODUCED BY CARMEN MARIA MACHADOPatricia Highsmith was one of the great twentieth-century novelists, celebrated for classics The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train, but she was also a masterful and prolific short-story writer. This definitive new collection, featuring two stories that have never been published before, confirms Highsmith as a genius of the genre. Peerlessly disturbing, exhilarating and savagely funny, Highsmith's stories still have the power to startle, presenting a world that is frighteningly familiar and as relevant today as when they were written.* Includes two newly discovered stories* This is the only volume of Highsmith's stories to select from a lifetime of short-story writing
Under the Dome: A Novel
by Stephen KingThe &“propulsively intriguing, staggeringly addictive&” (USA TODAY) novel from master storyteller Stephen King—a #1 New York Times bestseller.It is a typical October morning in Chester&’s Mill, Maine: glorious weather, a perfectly blue sky, and quiet. Then, all hell breaks loose. Inexplicably, and simultaneously, a plane falls from the sky in flames; a woman&’s hand is severed; and a farmer&’s John Deere explores (with him on it). A few moments later, a pulp-truck crashes spectacularly. Somehow, an invisible and impermeable barrier—exactly following the town&’s perimeter—has descended upon the town.Life under the dome quickly becomes a hothouse—with the best in some people and the worst in others flourishing. There are unambiguous heroes and villains, from a supremely corrupt local politician to a very enterprising newspaper reporter. The situation under the dome deteriorates by the minute: supplies of everything are diminishing quickly, the citizens are panicking, and the police force, under the control of the diabolically devious alderman Jim Rennie, implement their own version of martial law. Meanwhile, Barbie, brave Iraq war vet and short order cook, and a band of intrepid pals engage in a race against time to find the source of the dome and raise it before there&’s nobody left alive in Chester&’s Mill.Under the Dome is filled with a marvelous and enormous cast of over 100 characters. King&’s trademark idiomatic language is pure pleasure to read. &“Nowhere in Mr. King&’s immense body of work have his real and fantasy world collided with such head-on force&” (The New York Times Book Review).
Under the Light
by Laura WhitcombHelen needed a body to be with her beloved. Jenny had to escape from hers before her spirit was broken. It was wicked, borrowing it, but love drives even the gentlest soul to desperate acts. And Helen, who has returned to help Jenny, finds herself trapped, haunting the girl she wished to save. Jenny and Billy's love story begins out-of-body and continues into the tumultuous realm of the living, where they are torn apart even as they slowly remember falling in love.
Under the Magician's Spell (Give Yourself Goosebumps #7)
by R. L. StineA trip to the mall turns into a nightmare when you enter a strange magic shop and find yourself trying to escape from an evil magician who has some terrifying tricks up his sleeve.
Under the Magician's Spell: Night In Werewolf Woods; Beware Of The Purple Peanut Butter; Under The Magician's Spell; The Curse Of The Creeping Coffin (Give Yourself Goosebumps #7)
by R. L. StineReader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!You, and your little sister, and your best friend just found a new magic shop at the mall. The man inside calls himself the Magician. He's pretty creepy. Before you know it, your little sister runs out of the shop with his book of magic spells.If you read one of the spells, you find yourself in the magician's workshop. Suddenly you are part of a magic act. You are forced onstage, about to be sliced into a million pieces!If the three bullies from the school grab the book, you must find it before the magician makes your sister disappear...forever! The choice is yours in this scary GOOSEBUMPS adventure that's packed with over 20 super-spooky endings!
Under the Pendulum Sun
by Jeannette NgVictorian missionaries travel into the heart of the newly discovered lands of the Fae, in a stunningly different fantasy that mixes Crimson Peak with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Catherine Helstone’s brother, Laon, has disappeared in Arcadia, legendary land of the magical fae. Desperate for news of him, she makes the perilous journey, but once there, she finds herself alone and isolated in the sinister house of Gethsemane. At last there comes news: her beloved brother is riding to be reunited with her soon – but the Queen of the Fae and her insane court are hard on his heels.File Under: Fantasy [ In Arcadia | Seek and Hide | The Queen of Moths | Lands of the Damned ]
Under the Smokestrewn Sky (The Up-and-Under #4)
by A. Deborah BakerUnder the Smokestrewn Sky is the series finale of the 4-book Up-and-Under series, written by bestselling author Seanan McGuire under the open pseudonym A. Deborah Baker.Since stumbling from their world into the Up and Under, Avery and Zib have walked the improbable road across forests, seas and skies, finding friends in the unlikeliest of places and enemies great in number, as they make their way toward the Impossible City in the hope of finding their way home.But the final part of their journey is filled with danger and demise. Not everyone will make it through unscathed. Not everyone will make it through alive.The final part of the enchanting Up-and-Under quartet reminds us of the value of friendship and the price one sometimes pays for straying from the path. No-one’s safety can be guaranteed under the smokestrewn sky.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Undercover Wolf (STAT #2)
by Paige TylerWhen these two agents are under fire, they'll have to reconsider everything they know...Werewolf Harley Grant isn't exactly comfortable with her inner wolf. Even though she's on a STAT team where she can use her abilities openly, she refuses to do so, putting herself—and sometimes her teammates—at risk.Alpha werewolf Sawyer Bishop would give anything for his MI6 team to know about his inner wolf, but his teammates are mistrustful of anyone or anything with inhuman abilities. When he meets Harley on an overlapping case and realizes she's a fellow wolf, he's more than a little intrigued.Now that STAT and MI6 have to team up to stop a crew of supernatural bad guys intent on causing a nuclear meltdown, Harley can no longer deny her wolf and Sawyer can no longer hide his. As they grow closer to resolving the case and grow closer to each other, they discover things aren't what they seem and revenge could cost them their lives.New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Paige Tyler brings the heat in this action-packed shifter mate romance!Praise for Paige Tyler's wolf shifters:"Full of suspense, action, shoot-outs, evil plots, and strange supernatural creatures."—Long and Short Reviews for Wolf Under Fire"If you love hunks in uniform, a spitfire heroine, drama, danger, intrigue, and some really steamy moments then get your hands on Wolf Rising."—Fresh Fiction for Wolf Rising
Undercurrent
by Paul BlackwellIn Undercurrent, Paul Blackwells fast-paced YA thriller, sixteen-year-old Callum Harris survives a plummet over a waterfall, but wakes to find himself in a life thats totally different from the one he knew. His parents were separated. Now theyre together. His brother Cole was a sports star. Now hes paralyzed. And Callum, who used to be quiet and sort of unpopular, is suddenly a jock with two hot girls after him. But theres one difference that matters more than all the others combined: His former best friend wants Callum dead. And he isnt the only one. Tense and original, Undercurrent is a psychological thrill-ride with sci-fi elements that will appeal to fans of Neil Gaiman and Neal Shusterman.
Underland (Renquist Quartet)
by Mick FarrenVictor Renquist, centuries-old master of a small colony of Nosferatu, has been "recruited"-forcibly-by an undercover branch of the National Security Agency, Paranormal Operations and Research. They need his help. It seems that certain members of Hitler's Third Reich escaped to a secret world below Antarctica, taking with them some very advanced technology. Human teams have failed to infiltrate the base, and Renquist is the NSA's last chance.The team is small: Renquist; his right-hand man, Lupo; an extremely unorthodox hardline NSA operative named Jack Coulson; and Thyme Bridewell, a failed NSA brain-control experiment originally intended as Renquist's lunch. What they find in Underland taxes even Renquist's supernormal powers. The quondam Nazis have some very powerful allies -- the Dhrakuh, a race of sentient reptiles from the dawn of time. Their goal is nothing less than the conquest of the entire world.To make matters worse, Renquist is hampered by some throwbacks from his own race and by the unexpected arrival of one of his own colony members, Julia, together with Philipa, a darklost whom Julia has led through the Change into Nosferatu.The future of civilization hangs in the balance.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Underworld: Evolution
by Greg Cox Kevin Grevioux Len Wiseman Danny McbrideThe official novelization of the third installment of the Underworld film series--a prequel to the first two films that explores the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the ageless, aristocratic vampires known as Death Dealers and their onetime slaves, the Lycans. The film opens in theaters on January 23. Original.
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
by CoxThe official movie novelization of the latest film in the blockbuster action/horror movie series, Underworld--coming to theaters in January 2009 from Sony Pictures! Centuries ago...two ageless and terrifying races--the aristocratic vampires and the feral lycans--are bound by a cruel, ancestral relationship between master and servant, and eternally separated by the ongoing, violent rivalry between their two species. But unknown to both nobility and enslaved alike, a clandestine--and forbidden--affair between the lycan servant Lucian and the beautiful vampire noblewoman Sonja burns brightly with an unbridled passion. Seeking to escape Sonja's tyrannical father, Viktor, and a future in which their love is considered an abomination, Lucian risks the ever-present machinations of the court and his very life to cast himself and his beloved free of their bonds...a daring tactic that will eventually give all lycans the courage to rise up against their oppressive vampire overlords. New alliances are forged even as the chains of slavery are broken...and all that Lucian and Sonja hold dear will be threatened with utter annihilation....
Undone
by Sara HumphreysBook 4 of The Amoveo Legend. She's Far From Human...With her secret race of shapeshifteres embroiled in civil war, all Marianna Coltari wants is to stay far from controversy. Even so, when her overprotective brother insists on hiring his human friend Pete as her bodyguard, Marianna is furious.Does She Dare to Love One? Like most retired cops, Pete Castro resents his new job as a bodyguard. It's even worse because he'll be babysitting a party girl like Marianna. But that's before he meets her for the first time and discovers his instincts on red alert. Would he kill to protect her? The Amoveo Legend Series: Unleashed (Book 1, The Amoveo Legend) Untouched (Book 2, The Amoveo Legend) Untamed (Book 3, The Amoveo Legend) Undone (Book 4, The Amoveo Legend) Unclaimed (Book 5, The Amoveo Legend) Undenied (e-Novella)
Undone by the Billionaire Duke: A Spicy Billionaire Boss Romance
by Caitlin CrewsCan she tame the shameless duke?The brazen antics of Hugo, Duke of Grovesmoor, and the string of women to grace his bed are tabloid gold. But Eleanor Andrews, newly hired to care for the duke’s young ward, refuses to see him as anything but her boss. She desperately needs this job. No matter how gorgeous Hugo is, the stakes are simply too high…Well acquainted with lies and betrayal, Hugo is jaded and cynical, unconcerned with dispelling the salacious rumors about him. But there’s something about Eleanor that fires his blood, and he can’t turn down the challenge to unbutton his uptight employee!
Une dévotion aveugle (La saga des métamorphes #3)
by M. D. Grimm Iriam ShostakovichLa saga des métamorphes, tome 3Dans la ville d'Haven, Montana, les métamorphes et leurs alliés humains vivent en paix et en sécurité. Jusqu'à présent. Car la tranquillité de la ville repose sur le secret de sa localisation et tout est sur le point d'être compromis. Le couguar métamorphe Travis Kuger a vécu les dix dernières années de sa vie à osciller entre un furieux désir de vengeance et l'espoir d'enfin pouvoir oublier son tragique passé. Depuis que les Chevaliers, l'organisation anti-métamorphes, lui ont volé la vue et massacré sa famille, Haven - et le shérif Jack Ulger - ont été le refuge de Travis. Travis et Jack savent tous deux que leur relation pourrait aller bien au-delà de l'amitié, mais Jack fait partie de la meute de loups qui gouvernent la ville. S'il prend pour compagnon un métamorphe qui n'est pas un loup, il sera définitivement banni. Mais lorsqu'un membre des Chevaliers infiltre Haven, l'amour devient le dernier de leurs problèmes.
Une vie gâchée
by Andrew LennonDave est un bon à rien de quarante ans. Ses journées oscillent entre alcool, drogue et vol dans le portefeuille de sa mère. Mais une nuit, son quotidien est bouleversé par des cris et tout change. Le mal rôde et arrache les gens du doux confort de leurs maisons. La voisine de Dave, sa famille, ses amis disparaissent soudainement. Personne n’est en sécurité. Malheureusement pour Dave, c’est à lui d’y mettre un terme. Même s’il doit en mourir.
Unearthed
by Ba Tortuga2nd EditionSome ancient secrets are better left buried.... When Jacob Keys gets the call every man dreads, he leaves his Wyoming home to find his mother's killer. A whole archaeological team in Sardinia is dead, all of the bodies accounted for--all but Caleb Paulsen, consummate scholar and Jacob's former lover. In Italy, Jacob sets out to discover the cause of the tragedy. And to find Caleb. Meanwhile, a shipment arrives for Jacob in Wyoming. Jacob's friend, Ben Walking Turtle, and his partner, Sam MacDougal, retrieve the box... and with it, a ruthless and cunning entity that's been biding its time. From Sardinia to Wyoming, Phoenix to Denver, this lethal ancient evil travels toward its bitter last stand, leaving death and destruction in its wake. None of the men who touch it will ever be the same.First Edition published as Diggers by Torquere Press, 2008.