Books with title Lady Midnight

Pub Date: 2010-10-26 Pages: 384 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US The constraints of quiet widowhood have become too much for Lady Caroline Pearson to bear-especially now that her brother-in law has idiotically. and illegally. gambled away her house. Boldly. she confronts the new owner in person. But not only does the dashing rogue. James Ferrington. refuse to return Carolines deed. he tries to take scandalous advantage of her as well. Sheepish and repentant. James arrives on Carolines doorstep to make amends- unaware that the young widow and her eccentric aunt are intent on retaliation. James merely meant to seduce a bewitching minx and have done with it-and. suddenly. hes a kidnapped prisoner in Carolines cellar. But most shocking of all. James realizes that he has no desire whatsoever to be free-for the audacious Caroline has inflamed his senses. destroyed his...

Someone's out there on the Back Bay in Virginia Beach among the marshes with the banjo frogs, mosquitoes, and poisonous snakes. Leslie hears him rowing through the silent waters at midnight, sending chills up her spine. One night when she’s taking a walk he rows up to her, beckons with his finger, and in a gravelly voice beckons her to take a ride in his kayak. She backs up shaking her head. Whoever climbs in and paddles away is never seen again. Her best friend has already disappeared. Leslie doesn't want to be next in this young adult mystery thriller novel, Midnight.

The vampire love triangle that spawned hundreds of thousands of fans-and inspired a major new dramatisation shown on ITV2 -concludes in this powerful final volume of The Vampire Diaries. In Midnight, golden girl Elena Gilbert is back from the Dark Dimension, having successfully freed her vampire boyfriend Stefan Salvatore from imprisonment. Saving Stefan had an unlikely consequence: his vampire brother Damon Salvatore has become a mortal. While the trio reels from this latest twist, they must still deal with the demons that have taken over Elena's hometown, Fell's Church. As in every L.J. Smith novel, no matter how dark the night, there is always a happy ending. MIDNIGHT takes Elena, Stefan, and Damon to their darkest moments yet...

In 1969, we sent men to the moon. But we also sent them somewhere else; in the near future, wealthy businessman Ridley Pearce sends out a crack team of scientists and explorers to investigate the disappearance of their predecessors. They journey to exoplanet GG-1791, to investigate the goings-on. But they soon discover that the threat that destroyed the first crew hasn't gone to sleep. A threat that soon comes to frightening reality. Soon, the crew are pitted against this terrifying threat, and are thrust into a battle for which they are desperately unprepared, and from which none of them are guaranteed to return alive.

Violet has always been in the shadow of her mesmerizing, controlling brother Will, and when a shocking secret about Will's past is revealed, things get even worse. Violet retreats further into her own fantasy world, built around the fairy characters created by her favorite author, Casper Dream. The arrival of a new girl at school, Jasmine, seems like it might change Violet's life for the better. But is Jasmine a true friend? And will Violet ever manage to break free of Will's spell?

In her work of fiction, Darienne Miller weaves the tale of a misfit teenager living parallel lives. In the first, she is Muriah Mackenzie, for the most part a typical teen who struggles with issues in her life. One of these is her uncaring, dysfunctional, single mother, who has her own problems with anorexia and the loss of joy in her life. Another is the fact that Muriah is rather a loner with really only two friends, twin brothers Austin and Aaron.In her alternate life, she is Natalee Morgan, who has been rescued from Muriah's dreary existence, only to be threatened by the presence of the dark Lord Midnight. In this life, her rescuers become the family she never had as they come together to fight the enemy and protect Natalee from the clutches of Lord Midnight, who seeks her for her unique powers. However, as Natalee learns, these siblings are not really what they seem, and have powers of their own.In Lord Midnight, the author provides an adventure of a lifetime for a lonely teen that only realizes her desires for connection and family in the dream that has become her life, but what of the life she left behind?

Darkness, air, water, and sky will come together... and shake the forest to its roots. The next generation of warrior cats faces a peril that threatens the whole forest in this exciting spin–off series starring the children of the original Warriors heroes. Packed with riveting suspense, compelling new characters, and classic themes of epic fantasy, this is an adventure not to be missed for both fans of the previous six books and readers unfamiliar with the world of the warrior Clans.