Books with author E. S. b. Carter

5 STAR READERS' FAVORITE"Carter maintains her engaging prose and effectively blends the element of romance and its complexity into The Vaga." Lit Amri for Readers' Favorite "...fast paced and action packed and the plot twists and turns will keep you enthralled." Bedazzled by Books "...full of adventure, great fight sequences, supernatural, mystical beings and creatures and an ubber sweet romantic element." The Voluptuous Book DivaDARKNESS IS COMINGThe last time they met was in a fight for survival, but four years later Julian has returned, and his presence can only mean one thing…the enemy is near.Elena discovers that her world is again being threatened but this time her enemy has a new name.The Vaga—an ancient force ruled by an Immortal known only as Erebus. For eons he has lived in darkness and shadow and will stop at nothing to prevent the New Coming.

162 days. That’s how long Lexi needs to survive at her new school. Every year, she starts somewhere else under a new name, hiding in plain sight for as long as she can manage. Her record is 134, but it's senior year now and if she can make it till June, she can disappear into the real world. Maybe a big city, where no one recognizes her and no one knows about her brother and what he did. But this time things are different. This time there’s her new friend, Ryan, who makes her believe that she belongs somewhere. This time there’s Marcus, the boy who looks at her in a way no one has before. This time she’s actually started to miss her older brother, Scott, even though she knows she shouldn’t. Scott was the boy who hung out with her reading comics and riding bikes. The boy who applied Band-Aids to scraped knees and chased away spiders. But he’s also the reason that she’s been in hiding away from the world, and from herself. It’s just 162 days, but for Lexi that's a few days too many. Because it turns out you can't really run away from who you are. Eventually, the truth will always catch up with you.

‘This is a haunting and beautiful novel that explores the urgent issue of sexual violence with depth, empathy and devastating anger. Searingly written, it leaps off the page and grabs you by the throat. A love letter to a generation of women who have been taught that they have no choice but to keep quiet and put up with abuse, its message sings out to survivors everywhere and urges everybody else to start listening.’ Laura Bates, founder of Everyday Sexism"Caleb led me into the party. He’d invited me because he could. He’d kissed me because he could. Just like his dad, Caleb lived in a world of could and we drifted from room to room on the privilege of it.”Ellie Frias disappeared long before she vanished. Tormented throughout middle school, she begins her freshman year with new clothes, new hair, and a plan: she doesn’t need to be popular, she just needs to blend in with the wallpaper. It’s a lonely existence, but at least no one’s tripping her in the halls. In fact, no one notices her at all. Until Caleb Breward, tells her she’s beautiful and makes her believe it.Ellie loves Caleb, but sometimes she doesn’t like him that much - his awkward smile, the possessive way he touches her, the tone he uses, how he ignores her one minute and can't get enough the next. And on one black night, she discovers the monster her boyfriend really is. Ellie wasn’t the first victim, but now, trapped, she has to watch it happen again and again. She tries to hold onto her happier memories in order to get past the cold days, waiting for someone to find her.But no one searches for a girl they never noticed in the first place. ?The Lovely Bones meets Asking For It - this is the searing, heartbreaking story of a lost teenager, and the town she leaves behind.

Great news for those wary of selling their soul to the Devil. Just take out a loan instead!Darcie Rose is Satan’s top Substitute Soul, tasked with temporarily replacing the eager living souls who sign a deal with the Devil. The exchange is a simple one. They receive a Lucifer-facilitated status boost when they return to their body, and Darcie earns a temporary reprieve from Hell. But there are two rules she must abide by if she wants to stay on Luci’s good side: 1.) Avoid her former life now that she is an accidental murderess. 2.) Never expose proof of a demonic Hell in the presence of humans. Easy as pudding... until now.Something’s glitched, and Darcie’s sent Earth-side without the necessary details of whose body she’s inhabiting. Even Hell can’t compare to coming face-to-face with her former fiancé, and taxidermy animals rising from the dead like a macabre puppet show.Can Darcie regain control of a job quickly spiraling out of control? Or will this slip up get her banished to the torturous bowels of Hell? From Internationally Bestselling author L.B. Carter comes book one in the Loan Soul Series, a dark paranormal fantasy with a sardonic twist!

#1 International Bestseller, 14th Best Indie Book of 2018 by Read Freely, #1 Amazon Hot New Release, 5 Stars from Readers FavoriteThe waters of chaos are rising. It's time to sink or swim.Sirena hasn't spoken a word since the day she was found waterlogged on a riverbank. Her lips are sealed around the lone, horrific memory that remains. One of her holding her father underwater and saying goodbye with a life-ending kiss. Now, Sirena is treading water to fit in to a world in which she doesn't belong. When a bully begins tormenting her, she fears it's his life which is truly at stake.Misreading the situation, mysterious new student, Norton, comes to Sirena's defense, as if she's the one that needs help navigating shark invested waters. He also seems far too interested in investigating her and that fateful car accident. Still, she finds herself drawn to the would-be hero.When Sirena and Norton discover links between her past and his missing friend, they fear the worst. The murky waters of change are churning and threatening to reveal startling truths that could put Sirena's life under a microscope and Norton in the line of fire. Can he find a way to keep her safe against the vicious clouds rolling in? Or will all those antagonizing Sirena be caught in the raging storm of her fury?***This is an upper young adult novel packed with action, adventures, suspense, and some swear words and sexual references for fans of the Day After Tomorrow and Bella Forrest. The trilogy follows a progression with each book linked but from the point of view of a new couple; book one is a high-school, academy story, while book 2 involves college, and book 3 shifts to young professional new adult characters.----------------- "refreshingly different from the usual YA/NA plotlines and very cleverly put together ... an intelligent novel" - Award-winning author C.L. Monaghan."Silent Siren delivers a riveting YA story woven with important topics, mystery, action-packed moments, and endearing characters." - 5 stars from Readers Favorite

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...may laugh yust as much as you tam please, but I lets no tam sow bite me." Then the boys roared with laughter, and there was no more sleep in camp for us that night. We got up early and had our breakfast by sunrise. I told the boys I thought I could go the rest of the way alone without any danger, so I started on my road and the boys returned to their camp. The canon was a narrow place where a little stream ran through the Umpqua mountains down into the valley. A man in passing through the canon had to follow the bed of the creek all the way, for it was solid rock on each side, and was from fifty to live hundred feet high, and about eight miles in length. The night before I got there it had rained heavily in the mountains so the creek was booming through the canon like a mill race. In places the water would come half way up on my horse's sides and it would be all he could do to keep on his feet. At the mouth of the canon where it enters into the Umpqua valley, it turns to the right and pitches down over the rocks like a whirlpool. Just above where it turns down the hill is the old crossing, and about ten feet above they had started to build a bridge and had three bents put up about ten feet apart, with an approach on each side about six feet long. They bad two planks two by eight inches lying side by side across the frame work. When I got there I saw that it would be almost impossible to ford the stream so I did not know just what to do as I was afraid to stay there long. I got off and tried to lead my horse across the bridge on the planks but he would not budge a foot. I tried quite awhile to get him onto the plank, but it was no go. Then I thought I would try riding him over and as soon as I got on him and started him he walked straight across the bri...

This book is a multicultural Young Adult Fantasy novel of 54,977 words lightly based on the fairy tale Cinderella. It was a lot of fun to write and will be entertaining to read. And, of course, Cinderella and the Prince live ‘happily ever after’.Elizabeth performed housekeeping and cooking for her stepmother and stepsisters to remain in her missing father’s home. She was known as ‘Lizzie’ although her father called her ‘Elle’. While Lizzie was cleaning, she became suspicious of her stepfamily and was encouraged by the eccentric next door neighbor, Mrs. Goodbody, who introduced her to Mr. Longtail. Upon receipt of an invitation to the royal dance, they prepared her to attend and revealed they had been spies for the crown and previously asked by her father to protect her. At the dance, Lizzie waltzes with the Prince and saves the King but is kidnapped. This starts a chain of events wherein Lizzie rescues her father, discovers her stepfamily is a gang of hired assassins, Mr. Longtail is her grandfather, and the death of her mother when she was a baby is connected.

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