"FOR FRACTURED SOULS ARE LIKE MAGNETS. DRAWN TO COLLIDE INTO AN IMPOSSIBLE BLISS..." Labeled a 'Cursed' woman of Eve from birth, Maddie has endured nothing but pain and repression at the hands of The Order's most abusive elder, Moses. Now living with her sister in The Hangmen's secluded compound, finally, Maddie, is free. Free from the suffocating faith she no longer believes in. Free from endless years of physical and mental torment. Just... free... At age twenty-one, the timid and shy Maddie is content to live within the confines of her new home-safe from the outside world, safe from harm and, strangely, protected by the Hangmen's most volatile member; the heavily pierced and tattooed, Flame. Flame. The man who ceaselessly watches over her with his midnight dark and searing eyes. The man who protects her with a breath-taking intensity. And the man who stirs something deep within her numbed heart. But when circumstances conspire for Flame to need HER help, Maddie bravely risks it all for the broken man who has captivated her fragile soul. The Hangmen's most infamous member, Flame, is ruled by one thing-anger. Plagued by haunting demons from his past, an all-consuming rage, and isolated by an abhorrent hatred of being touched, Flame's days are filled with suffocating darkness, pierced only by a single ray of light-Maddie. The shy, beautiful woman he cannot purge from his thoughts. The woman he has an overwhelming need to possess... ... the only person who has ever been able to touch him. Flame's mission in life is to protect Maddie, to keep her safe. Until a trigger from his troubled past sends him spiraling into madness, trapping him in the deepest recesses of his disturbed mind. His Hangmen brothers fear that Flame is beyond saving. His only hope of salvation: Maddie and her healing light. Dark Contemporary Romance. Contains explicit sexual situations, violence, disturbingly sensitive and taboo subjects, offensive language, and very mature topics. Recommended for age 18 years and over.
Bowen's stories show a mastery of detail, a sureness of expression and an acute reading of human nature that give them a sinister force which is realistic and unnerving, yet at the same time tinged with pity and compassion.
After the cop had caught them living in an abandoned building, the government had tried to separate the brothers, but Kent would have none of it. He'd rescued Wayne from that horrible foster home and vowed to keep Wayne safe.
Stranger in My Skin is the taut, compelling tale of Alysa Phillips's strange struggle toward adulthood.
The two writers in this volume well represent the last decade of the nineteenth century, and are of interest in themselves as well as for their contribution to the chilling of the Victorian spine. Mrs.
Lafcadio Hearn's fascinating and unsettling ghost stories are a reinterpretation of oriental legends, and folktales. They are a potent blend of weird beauty and horror.
The sixteenth-century Puritan Solomon Kane has a thirst for justice which surpasses common reason.
THE DEEPEST LOVE CAN BE BORN FROM THE FIERCEST HATE.
After the sudden death of a beloved patriarch who promised eternal life to his followers, a topsy-turvy society attempts to reconcile the deluded teachings of their late leader with the harsh reality he left behind.
EVEN THE BROKEN, THROUGH LOVE, CAN FIND GRACE.
The criminal knows his work and all the tricks of it ; and he is always on the watch for chances . Moreover , he knows by experience what these chances are likely to be , and how they usually come . The other person is only careful ...