Books with title City of Shadows

My two goals in London? Drink whiskey with my best friend, and don’t let anyone know I’m brimming with magic. A supernatural gladiator like me isn’t supposed to exist anymore. Not since The Anarchy ended. But my night takes a bad turn when a lethally gorgeous fae--Ruadan--tries to assassinate me. He's taken a vow of silence until he’s slaughtered the outlaws on his kill list. Outlaws like me. Ruadan lets me live on one condition: I have to earn my place at the Institute of the Shadow Fae. As a powerful demi-fae, I can take the competition. But things fall apart when I’m given an impossible choice: betray my mentor Ruadan, or my best friend dies. This book is from the Demons of Fire and Night world.

What would be the impact of one man being used by God in a world where God is unknown? In an attempt to escape a potentially world-ending catastrophe Eric Dunst steps through the world's first teleporter, his destination Sydney. Instead, he finds himself on a new world entirely. A dark world, corrupted and in constant conflict. A world that revolves around a single energy source that every living thing is enslaved to. Every living thing except Eric. Thrown in the midst of a rebellion, and wondering if there is anything left of his home, Eric prepares himself for a journey that will change everything he understands.

Seer of Shadows: Shadows of the First Trine 1…They were hardly a threat before. Sure, the abominations could look like allies, but they weren’t good at imitating personalities or the little quirks that make each person unique, and they had a distinctive odor, which always gave them away . . . but the only constant is change, and over time, they learned how to model the behavior of their chosen identity accurately. They learned the art of mimicry and voice manipulation. It’s even rumored they managed to extinguish the telling smell!Unrest has once again blanketed the kingdoms in its darkness. Magic is on the rise, and those acting from the shadows have manipulated dragon eggs to create evil, stunted monsters capable of taking the place of anyone they choose. Now, they allegedly walk among unsuspecting folk, virtually undetectable, but Lady Shey, with all her power as a sorceress, can’t devote her time to worry about monsters. She must set aside her worries and focus on her quest to save the kingdoms’ hope for crawling back into the light—a group of descendants, according to the seers, living a simple life tucked away peacefully in the mountains.

Twelve-year-old Robert Jacklin comes face-to-face with bigotry, racism, and brutality when he is uprooted from England and moves to Zimbabwe with his family. Robert is enrolled in one of the country's most elite boys' boarding schools. Newly integrated, the school is a microcosm of the horrible problems faced by the struggling new country in the wake of a bloody civil war. The white boys want their old country back and torment the black Africans. Robert must make careful alliances. His decision to join the ranks of the more powerful white boys has a devastating effect on his conscience and emerging manhood.

Kid Bean returns to protect the city of of Cornucopia from another vile villain.In order to save top secret government documents from a mysterious international spy, Kid Bean teams up with one of the leading private investigators in the city, Phil K. Fish. Can our heroes stop the notorious Inkblot from selling these secrets to the highest bidder? Or will they be stopped instead?

'If I stood you in front of a man, pressed a gun into your palm and told you to squeeze the trigger, would you do it?''No, sir, no way!''What if I then told you we'd gone back in time and his name was Adolf Hitler? Would you do it then?' Zimbabwe, 1980s. The fighting has stopped, independence has been won and Robert Mugabe has come to power offering the end of the Old Way and promising hope for black Africans.For Robert Jacklin, it’s all new: new continent, new country, new school. And very quickly he learns that for some of his white classmates, the sound of guns is still loud, and their battles rage on.Boys like Ivan. Clever, cunning Ivan.He wants things back to how they were, and he’s taking his fight to the very top.Winner of the Costa, the UKLA and the Branford Boase Awards

Immerse yourself into a world of secret societies competing for global domination. Navigate your way through a myriad of ruthless manipulators, sexual deviants, and questionable idealists. Stakes escalate out of control when super powers are introduced into this Machiavellian playing field. Super powered? Yes. Heroes? No. Follow the twists, as each faction deals with inner turmoil, betrayals, and new challenges that arise from the sudden shift of powers. Meet Lilith, the manipulative, ice cold, control freak that runs the Hierarchy faction, and her chief information officer Pretty Boy, a sexual predator with a psychology degree that revels in his role as the Hierarchy's interrogator. Pick a side between Angelo Ducata, the devout leader of a religious order of knights, that pre-dates organized religions, and Shinson Khan, the hedonistic atheist that leads the Hanna-Hway, a faction of assassins and spies. Decide for yourself whether the Cabal is a group of enlightened individuals saving the planet or if they are the worst kind of terrorists, never to have been seen. Anticipate the developing threat of the Cartel, as they use their newly empowered Brazilian motorcycle club called the Angos Caidos (Fallen Angels) to consolidate organized crime globally. Follow the journey of a naive college athlete Brynja Ingvarr, as an innocent flirtation with the wrong man at the wrong time entangles her into this insane world, and she becomes one of the most powerful players on the field.

In the next installment of the Field of Elysium series, Molly must face new challenges without Victor by her side. She meets new friends and foes as she embarks on a dangerous journey inside enemy territory. Told from the dual perspective of Molly and Victor, the story will take you on a breathtaking ride. PART ONEWhen life gives you no choice other than to be strong or perish, you soon learn who you really are.Since discovering the wormhole that connects Earth to Arkana, Molly Bennett faced joy and pain, love and death, excitement and danger unlike anybody else she knew. But her biggest challenge is about to begin. She is inside the force field, lost in Terraka City with people she doesn’t know. Life is more dangerous under Taronno’s tyranny than she and her Arkanian friends anticipated. Time is running out, and she must figure out whom to trust, how to stay safe, and how to get back to her beloved Victor.Victor Sorren’s life changed the moment Molly showed up on Arkana. His love for her came easy, but admitting it to her took every bit of courage he had. Obstacles always threatened to tear them apart, but together they overcame all of them. Now, Molly is gone, and Victor doesn’t know how to deal with his worry and loneliness. Going after her would mean certain death, but this is the price he is willing to pay to see her again.The race against time has begun. Will Molly be able to find her way back to Victor before it’s too late?PART TWOWe do anything for the ones we love…Since Molly Elizabeth Bennett has been living in exile bereft of all memory of her past, she only knows the world to be an unfair and brutal place. Inside Terraka City, where control, violence, and humiliation keep people in abject fear, her faith in humanity has faltered. But just like the forest after a fire, she also rises from the ashes. Meanwhile, Victor Sorren embarks on a hazardous rescue mission with Little Pete and Annabella to find his beloved Molly, unaware that she doesn’t remember him. For a mixed-blood Motley Terraka City, where only purebred species have the right to live, is a dangerous place to be. Yet the three friends follow Molly’s footsteps even though they jeopardize their own lives with each step. Four friends. Scattered in four different places. All of their lives in peril. The Imperial Guards are hunting them. The Emperor is wanting them dead. They just want to find each other and leave this city of shame. But with the stakes so high, wishful thinking may not be enough to save them. Will they all be strong enough to survive this deadly mission into Terraka territory?A.B. Whelan's third book of the romantic fantasy Fields of Elysium series is another highly imaginative tale, a fast-paced story about the power of love and human nature.Books in the Series:Safe and Sound (prequel)Fields of Elysium (Book One)