Books with title Darkness

Given the chance to train as a squire, kitchen servant Achan Cham hopes to pull himself out of his pitiful life and become a Kingsguard Knight. When Achan's owner learns of his training, he forces Achan to spar with the Crown Prince--more of a death sentence than an honor. Meanwhile, strange voices in Achan's head cause him to fear he's going mad. While escorting the prince to a council presentation, their convoy is attacked. Achan is wounded and arrested, but escapes from prison--only to discover a secret about himself he never believed possible.

Book one of The Sensor Series. Melena Sanders faced her fair share of danger with insurgents and terrorists when she served in the U.S. Army, but now she is about to go up against a new threat. Her best friend, Aniya, has disappeared while on a trip to Fairbanks, Alaska—a supernatural haven. Most humans have no idea darker races lurk amongst them. Mel knows better. If she wants to get her friend back, she’s going to have to go in alone—but not unarmed. Melena has a few special skills the Army didn’t provide, but the odds are still against her. She’s got to come up with a plan fast that doesn’t involve her, or her friend, dying. But danger likes to play it rough. A war for power is about to rise in Fairbanks and if she wants to get Aniya back, she’s going to have to step right into the middle of it.

Val is the one people call when they get in trouble. Whether it's spirits, monsters, or cursed objects, she will handle it for you. Years after fleeing her native United States for the gloomy streets of London, Val gets a call for help from a friend, one she can't turn down. One that may get her - and maybe half the city of London - killed.Despite her years of working in the paranormal industry, Val will learn how much she doesn't know--the entities that stalk graveyards and the shadowy organizations that keep tabs on dangerous artifacts--and how much people she called friends have been keeping from her.With her soul on the line, Val must choose between Richard, the man who took her in when she arrived in England with nothing, and Beck, the man who taught her what she knows... and is hunting Richard. What begins as helping a friend with a simple cleansing ritual becomes a fight to the death to keep the true darkness from spilling into the streets.If you like paranormal mystery detectives with a strong female lead, True Darkness is the right book for you.

From European shores to the heart of the African jungle, Captain Riley’s Pingarrón embarks on new action-packed adventures.On their last mission, Captain Riley, his loyal crew, and his girlfriend, Carmen, bravely averted a global disaster. Now, while World War II rages on, they hope that they are on more solid ground working for the US Navy. But when a job goes awry, the team finds itself taking a treacherous journey deep into the Belgian Congo. There, within the jungle, they will come face-to-face with wild animals, cannibals, and dark forces that shroud a decades-old mystery. They defeated the terrifying Operation Apokalypse that nearly destroyed them, but can they survive this?

For ten years, Lora thought she was responsible for her mother’s death.Now, she’s just found out her mother might still be alive.When a meeting with her scheming step-uncle confirms Lora's suspicion that it’s not in his interests to find his half-sister, Lora realizes that the only way she will find her mother is to accept the deal offered to her by the one person she knows she cannot trust – Lwaid, son of Raith, who is intent on killing her and who has very nearly succeeded in the past.But as she plunges headlong into this new challenge, the unravelling of a 100-year-old mystery to find a hidden treasure, Lora realizes that Lwaid is not every inch his mother’s son… or is he?Caught in a dilemma of his mother’s making, Lwaid is pitted against Lora: in order for the only family he has to live, Lora must die.In a adventure that crosses three continents, Lora and Lwaid plot and scheme to outwit each other, silencing the voices of their consciences to serve their own interests.What will they sacrifice in order that their family is the one to survive?

I went to the lake I saw myself through the water it was first time I saw, I put my left hand into water it was so hot my five fingers were melted by water, I then saw my fingers were becoming large and larger, so their shapes changed into others, they were moving in water, then they turned around the lake so fast they became one largest finger and immediately

Book 8 of the award-winning Young Adult adventure series!200 years ago, the Brothers Grimm brought their stories to life.But why? The question has haunted the heroes for two centuries, and no one has come close to the truth. Alice Goodenough will learn the terrible truth. And it will come at a terrible cost.The fencing tournament is in just a few short days. Alice's team is hopelessly outmatched, facing off against fencers who have more experience and an inhuman amount of energy. But the other fencers also have a special drug, one that Alice's team can use to even the playing field. Whether they should take the drug or not threatens to tear the team apart.Meanwhile, Alice must live up to her agreement with Sam Grayle, who lusts after a hidden treasure that once belonged to the Corrupted. Alice must team up with a group of explorers and delve deep into a forbidden cave that holds more secrets than any of them expected.This book contains the following Grimms' Fairy Tales:- Twelve Dancing Princesses- Rapunzel

A newly-founded human colony world burned from orbitA warship squadron of the galaxy's oldest race ambushed and destroyedAn ancient enemy reborn in the darkness beyond the known starsThe A!Tol Imperium and their new human subjects have had fifteen years of relative peace. New colonies have been founded, new worlds explored, new ships built. Formal and informal alliances have been built with the ancient powers of the Core, leaving humanity and the Imperium seemingly on the brink of a new dawn.The devastation of one of the newly-founded human colonies sends ripples of shock through the Imperium, and a battle fleet under Fleet Lord Harriet Tanaka is dispatched to the edge of the Imperium to find the culprits and bring them to justice.Meanwhile, the destruction of a Mesharom Frontier Fleet squadron calls the Duchy of Terra's newest warship, Bellerophon, into action and combat with a strange new power that bears all the signs of the Imperium's age-old enemy, the Kanzi.Aboard Bellerophon is Annette Bond's stepdaughter, Morgan Casimir. The recently promoted junior officer will be thrust into the crucible of war and challenged to rise to her mother's example in the face of this both new and ancient enemy…