![]() Defeat forces Strider to accept all challenges issued and rewards him with pleasure if he wins but punishes him with pain if he loses. Kaia has been in an ongoing flirtation with Strider, keeper of the demon of Defeat. Imagine Kaia’s surprise when she is invited to participate in the next upcoming Harpy Games. Her sisters (including familiar faces Gwen and Bianka) are really the only Harpies that will speak to her. Kaia hasn’t really been on good terms with other Harpies since a youthful mistake wreaked havoc at the Harpy Games. ![]() What do you get when you cross a Harpy nicknamed Kaia the Disappointment, who happens to be headed for her equivalent of the Olympics (though totally unlike any Olympics imaginable), with a warrior who is host to the demon of Defeat? A wild and crazy ride! Paranormal Romance published by HQN Books 27 Sept 11 C2’s review of The Darkest Surrender (Lords of the Underworld, Book Eight) by Gena Showalter ![]()
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![]() ![]() Maybe some fairy tales are just too scary to even think about. Maybe some fairy tales don’t even really need to be told, because they live inside of us, scaring us with their witches and their evil spells, making us wonder if maybe this time the prince won’t come in time, the princess won’t wake up, and maybe for once there won’t be any happily ever after. ![]() Maybe Randy New-man doesn’t need to sing their songs. Maybe it’s that some fairy tales don’t need to be computer animated. Sometimes I wonder why Disney never took to Rapunzel, why they never tried to take that story and put it on lunch boxes and in video stores and on pink sweatshirts. A slight turn of the head, a fast good-bye, a faraway look in the eyes. Sometimes the bricks are easy to see, hard things that you bump up against when you try to touch someone. We build these walls around ourselves, placing bricks between us and everyone else, telling ourselves that we’re just protecting ourselves, just staying safe. We all have these elaborate mechanisms to take care of our disappointments, our sadness, our pain. That things are going to get better, or that things can’t possibly get any worse. Brad Barkley is the author of the novel, Money, Love, which was a Barnes and Noble 'Discover Great New Writers' selection and one of theYear’s Best as named by the Washington Post. “It’s funny, really, all the ways we tell ourselves every day that things are going to be okay. AUTHOR Brad Barkley Literature & Fiction Sign in to Follow Follow Brad Barkley to get new release emails from Audible and Amazon. ![]() ![]() ![]() The elephants they find are being kept in a kind of prison. It’s quite a journey getting there – what with stowing away on a aeroplane and getting stuck in the desert. “A female elephant as vast as a baobab tree was standing in the shadows of the forest, flapping her ears menacingly. ![]() Much like Martine in this story who learns to understand them more closely. Namibia is indeed the home of these magnificent creatures – intelligent and graceful despite their size, they lives in a whole community of elephants and can sense panic and fear from far away. ![]() When the grandmother tries to find help by returning to England, Martine and her friend Ben go to Namibia as they’ve heard a prophecy that ‘elephants will lead you to the truth’ Now Jemmy risks becoming the star attraction of the zoo that developers plan to build on the land when they sell the game reserve from under Martine’s grandmother’s feet. She first came to this place as an orphan to come and live with the grandmother and at first it was strange and isolating but now she has made friends with all the animals and has even tamed a white giraffe named Jemmy who she rides around on. Sawubona Game Reserve near Cape Town in South Africa is the beloved home and playground of Martine. ![]() |