Book Preview Once upon a time there were two cities within a city. One was light and one was dark. One moved restlessly all day while the other never stirred. One was warm and filled with ever-changing lights. One was cold and fixed in place by stones. And when the sun went down each afternoon … Read more
Book Preview THE BLOOD WOULDN’T WASH OUT. It ran red, red, red, down over my hands, curling over the bruises on my wrists and the scabs on my knuckles. The water pouring from the faucet, hot enough to steam the mirror, should have diluted it to pale pink and then clear nothing. But it just…wouldn’t … Read more
Book Preview BLACK IS THE COLOR THAT IS NO COLOR AT ALL. Black is the color of a child’s still, empty bedroom. The heaviest hour of night—the one that traps you in your bunk, suffocating in another nightmare. It is a uniform stretched over the broad shoulders of an angry young man. Black is the … Read more
Book Preview ONE SAM I DON’T forget faces. I don’t forget anything my eyes have landed on—not the smallest detail of the white flowering wallpaper in our neighbors’ house, not the cursive letters written on my classroom’s whiteboard, not the numbers that flashed on the screen as the man in the white coat adjusted my … Read more
Book Preview THE DREAM FIRST MADE AN APPEARANCE MY SECOND WEEK AT THURMOND, AND IT CAME TO VISIT AT LEAST TWICE A MONTH. I guess it made sense that it was born there, behind the camp’s humming electric fence. Everything about that place withered you down to your worst, and it didn’t matter how many … Read more
Book Preview SOMETIMES, even when the roads are quiet and the others are asleep, she lets herself worry she made the wrong choice. It’s not that she doesn’t like the group—she does. Really. They stick together and they play it smart, driving on side streets as much as they can instead of the highways, with … Read more
Book Preview WHEN THE WHITE NOISE WENT OFF, we were in the Garden, pulling weeds. I always reacted badly to it. It didn’t matter if I was outside, eating in the Mess Hall, or locked in my cabin. When it came, the shrieking tones blew up like a pipe bomb between my ears. Other girls … Read more
Book Preview Bruno Makes a Discovery One afternoon, when Bruno came home from school, he was surprised to find Maria, the family’s maid—who always kept her head bowed and never looked up from the carpet—standing in his bedroom, pulling all his belongings out of the wardrobe and packing them in four large wooden crates, even … Read more
Book Preview Contents PART ONE Severe Winter Storm Warning One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight PART TWO Snow Blind Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Twenty Twenty-one Twenty-two Twenty-three Twenty-four PART THREE Whiteout Twenty-five Twenty-six Twenty-seven Twenty-eight Twenty-nine Thirty Thirty-one Thirty-two Thirty-three PART FOUR Snow Ghosts Thirty-four Thirty-five … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY C. J. BOX THE JOE PICKETT NOVELS Dark Sky Long Range Wolf Pack The Disappeared Vicious Circle Off the Grid Endangered Stone Cold Breaking Point Force of Nature Cold Wind Nowhere to Run Below Zero Blood Trail Free Fire In Plain Sight Out of Range Trophy Hunt Winterkill Savage Run Open … Read more
Book Preview VIVIAN OWENS stepped from the bus at Mount Hookey with two black eyes and five hundred pictures of her twin brother bundled under her arm. The journey had been almost eleven hours, including the hour-long interchange at Lewiston, which she’d spent in the post office getting her brother’s poster photocopied. The pictures hadn’t … Read more
Book Preview A MESSAGE FROM CHICKEN HOUSE Buckle your sandals and pack your toga: you’re about to travel to the amazing world of ancient Rome – In the Shadow of Heroes will sweep you up on a voyage of wild discovery. Alongside two wonderful friends, Cadmus and Tog, you’ll uncover the secrets of the ancient … Read more
Book Preview STEPHANIE BÄCKER lives in a haunted house. There’s a room on the first floor that creaks and groans and sometimes ejects unpleasant-smelling gases from the crack under the door. She can hear what’s going on in there first thing in the morning and last thing at night, and is starting to suspect that … Read more
Book Preview Also by John Bowen VESSEL History keeps its secrets. Some are safer left buried… An International Amazon #1 Bestseller in Kindle Thriller and Mystery. When molecular biologist Holly Reilly is forced to go on the run carrying a piece of technology with the potential … Read more
Book Preview THE SIT DOWN I recognize the men at the bar. And the one woman. They’re some of the most respected chefs in America. Most of them are French but all of them made their bones here. They are, each and every one of them, heroes to me—as they are to up-and-coming line cooks, … Read more
Book Preview The Book of Useless Information The Book of Useless Information The Book of Useless Information By Botham, Noel INTRODUCTION OH, but just how useless is useless? There, as Shakespeare observes in Act III, Scene I, of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, is the rub. For instance, the news that flamingos can only eat … Read more
Book Preview Tribute to the Author from His Children You will live with me always: In the short 11 years I knew you, you taught me by example to love and give to fellow man, to believe and give the best of myself. Noemie Heli Lopian nee Bornstein In memory of my father who taught … Read more
Book Preview Contents Clockwork Felon Blood Cursed Broken Chains Abducted Before The Storm Elemental Beginnings Cellblock Sorcery Nicked The Freed Freak Vampire Uncaged Fugitive Demon Captive Souls Chosen Kiss And Lock Up Bind his wings The Black Garden Conjuring Asylum Reporting For Duty Rock, Meet Hard Place The Prison of Despair Bounded Paranormal Guard Clockwork … Read more