Showing results for "A Blaze" in Literature & Fiction

Former Hostile Operations Team soldier Blaze "Shadow" Connolly knows what it’s like to lose everything. He’s got nobody except his job and his team and that’s the way he likes it. But when he walks into a gas station during a robbery and locks eyes with Emma Grace Sutton, he knows he’ll do anything to protect the pretty girl with the blue glasses.

In Memphis, Tennessee, Satan's Fury MC had become the most notorious MC in the city. That recognition hadn't come easy. While people were visiting Graceland and walking down on Beale Street, my brothers and I were at war, fighting rival MCs and gangs who were trying to take control of our territory. We had staked our claim, but when a new threat arrived, everything we had worked for would be put in jeopardy.

The day twenty-seven-year-old Clara is chosen to take part in the Ascension Games is the day death knocks on her door. For many, the Ascension Games is the one and only chance for a better life in the underground city of Eldmoor. A prize worth fighting for… a life worth dying for. The Games are simple: two teams, eight players, and one flag. Sounds easy, if the contestants can survive the dragons seeking revenge for humanity's betrayal many centuries ago. The death race has already begun. Will Clara reach the finish line alive?

In the shadowy world of international espionage, betrayal has deadly consequences. CIA agents are being hunted down across the Middle East. Someone is selling them out. The culprit? Roger Kessler—a rogue analyst hiding in Italy, armed with a list that could shatter the agency. CIA Director Davis calls on the one man he knows can end it: Axel Blaze. The former US Army Ranger, now a Delta Force operator with the elite 1st SFOD-Delta, is called to take on a three-pronged mission.

It's Christmas Eve, and Delia's family is finally together again. All is quiet and still, yet Delia can't help but feel a sense of foreboding. After all, an ancient dragon has just awakened and stronger magic is pulsing through the veins of the Myrtlewood Crones. Delia braces herself for her most enchanting adventure yet as questions about her grandmother's mysterious death and her heritage haunt her. On top of all this, her daughter Gillian's strange behavior becomes even more unsettling and the spirited grandchildren tumble into the mix.

This fierce collection from New York Times bestselling historical fiction authors sweeps readers back in time with exhilarating short stories of unforgettable female characters. Spanning decades, these indelible women broke through barriers in disparate worlds of art, war, science, love, and injustice and paved the way for other women to follow. Strike a match and blaze a trail.

To rid this world of evil, I must first blaze. History tells of a time long ago when small town scientist Dr. Isaacs discovered the cure for cancer. Great right? And it was...for a time. The "Advanced" were born. I am one of few remaining immune to a virus created to kill only humans. Broken and coldhearted, I fight tooth and claw to survive, life in the wastes is harsh every day a battle. Baby and I give no quarter to those who cross us. I just want to find and kill the guy who murdered my mother and kill him...slowly.

The Moondial has been broken and the Stones of Power scattered. The Laws are failing and the future is thrust into the hands of teenager, Peter Calender. He has been tested and been close to death but discovered an inner strength he did not know he possessed. On his journey, he has found friendship, discovered that magic is more than a part of fairy tales, and been hunted by forces of unimaginable evil. His life will never return to the innocence of childhood, and his passage into adulthood is unlike any other.

Nalini Singh returns to the Psy/Changeling world, as a woman without a past becomes the pawn of a man who controls her future.... Dev Santos discovers her unconscious and battered, with no memory of who she is. All she knows is that she's dangerous. Charged with protecting his people's most vulnerable secrets, Dev is duty bound to eliminate all threats. It's a task he's never hesitated to complete...until he finds himself drawn to a woman who might yet prove the enemy's most insidious weapon.

Lucas Vallois and Andrei Hadeon are finally ready to walk down the aisle. There’s just one small problem. A ghost from Lucas' past shows up days before the wedding, desperate for help. Against his better judgement, Lucas and his best friend, Ashton Frost, plan a fast trip back to the one place they swore they’d never go: their hometown in Oklahoma. But the danger is worse than they expected. Now, they’re in a race to track down a killer, keep a young girl safe, and get Lucas back in time to say, "I do."

It's the spring of 1862. The Confederate Army in the West teeters on the brink of collapse following the catastrophic loss of Fort Donelson. Commanding general Albert Sidney Johnston is forced to pull up stakes, abandon the critical city of Nashville, and rally his troops in defense of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Hot on Johnston's trail are two of the Union's best generals: the relentless Ulysses Grant, fresh off his career-making victory at Fort Donelson, and Don Carlos Buell.

Meet Mookie Pearl. Criminal underworld? He runs in it. Supernatural underworld? He hunts in it. Nothing stops Mookie when he’s on the job. But when his daughter takes up arms and opposes him, something’s gotta give....

Blaze exposes the new order of women and power in the cut-throat arena of up-market magazines. The idealistic baby boomers have been pushed aside and it's every woman for herself. An intimate look at four women coping with their private and public lives in the world where scheming and fox cunning seem to beat skill and talent, where sexism and ageism in office politics label women over 30 over the hill.

This vacation is to a rural mountain cabin for two days to try to overcome the loss of their father after an untimely demise from cancer. Joining the family is the daughter's boyfriend and the brother's best friend. However, the Stone family will soon learn they are not the only ones on the mountain and the unknown neighbors are brutal, murderous cannibal hillbillies with a misinformed sense of ownership of the mountain.

I came on board the Drexian space station to attend my cousin’s wedding. That was it. Despite every other woman on Earth falling all over themselves for one of the tough aliens, I wasn’t interested. Not even a little bit. I had my own life on Earth to sort out, and a hot Drexian did not figure into my plans.

There's an animal in me that I keep hidden. Beth calls to him. She tempts the monster and lures him to the surface. I'm obsessed with her. I can't stay away, even when doing so puts my entire club in danger. Her blood is on my hands. I formed her to fit only me. I was her first and if I have to kill everyone in our way. So be it. I will be her last. She is mine.

In this final volume of diaries, Tony Benn reflects on the compensations and the disadvantages of old age. With the support of a small circle of friends and his extended family, he continues his activities on behalf of social justice, peace and accountability in public life, to a background of political change and the international economic crisis.

With a man like him, every mission becomes personal…Ever since FBI agent Keira O'Shay started tracking a young boy named Mateo, she's felt a connection even her empathic abilities can't explain. She needs to save Mateo from the cult leader holding him hostage. Nothing can interfere with that - not even the reappearance of Luke Ransom, the hot-as-hell fire captain she's regretted walking out on for three long years. Losing Keira left Luke vulnerable - in every way. When they were together, the powers each possesses were mysteriously enhanced.

The spy novel that anticipated the Snowden revelations. Carina Dymek is on a fast track for promotion at the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, when she is approached by a stranger and given a USB stick containing a report to circulate in her department. Unwittingly, she delivers a time bomb of classified information that sends her career up in flames and puts her on the radar of the security service,

At Camp Blaze—a camp with a history of violent tragedy—a group of counselors are stalked and slaughtered by a masked killer. However, due to the missing bodies, the murders are treated as disappearances. ‘Perhaps they’ve ran off to elope,’ the authorities suggest. But, as the disappearances continue to mount, Regina Park—the head counselor—begins to suspect foul play and she fears the killer may be closer than they think...