Books with title The Second Rite

THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE NEXT GREAT DETECTIVE SERIES.★★★★★ "Hurry up with the next book! I'm old and in poor health!"★★★★★ "I read these in one sitting. Honestly I can't stop!" Meet Veronica Summers.She's a femme fatale in Jimmy Choo heels--a local attorney needing the services of a private investigator. She's come to the right place. Mackenzie August is hired to sniff out a traitorous informant hiding in an underworld operation. It's an assignment he should turn down--if only someone other than Ronnie Summers had asked, maybe he could have... Mackenzie is tossed into the deep end and finds himself mingling with the mafioso. Is his professional career worth risking for the sake of a cute girl with sordid secrets? Read The Second Secret, the next book in your new favorite mystery series.

An inspiring story about finding your true elementEver since he first hatched, Gilbert has wanted to fly. But with his big, clumsy feet and small, fluffy wings, learning to fly is a bigger challenge than Gilbert anticipated. His fellow penguins tell him to give up, but Gilbert is sure that if he keeps trying, he’ll be able to soar…Young readers will fall in love with this sweet, motivating story about overcoming obstacles and discovering your hidden talents.

Thirteen-year-old Fredrik has just made a choice that will change his life and the lives of everyone he knows. Rather than fight, possibly to the death, he chooses The Second Rite. He must leave the compound where he has lived all his life, enter the ruins of a dead city and bring back an artifact. If he returns without it, he will be killed by the other boys. Fredrik knows if he is caught leaving the compound, he will be severely punished. But a dream gives him courage - that he might find a whole book, a forbidden possession, to bring back for his mother. Fredrik does indeed find a book, the Holy Book of God, but he has been taught that God is the source of all their misery. Dare he believe what this ancient book tells him? Is keeping it safe worth losing everything? Dare he believe that the land beyond the dark wall is the true reality? Can he really complete the task for which he has been chosen?

Rival gods at war. Mind-bonded giant beasts. A fanatical golden army. Dangerous blood magic.Drina is juggling her twin roles as heir to the Bennamore ruler and wife of a living god. Now the tenuous peace with the fearsome Blood Clans is put to the test as her prisoner-husband, Ly-haam, is challenged by the emergence of a second god, and Drina’s lover, Arran, makes a costly mistake. Meanwhile, on the southern Plains of Kallanash, a new force is arising — a vast golden army, raised in ferocious discipline, and fanatical followers of another kind of god, who is determined to spread his power into an empire, and will let nothing stand in his way.To combat the threat, Drina, Arran and Ly-haam must set aside their personal differences and combine their talents in a uniquely dangerous way which will test their heroism to its limits. How much will they have to sacrifice to save their country?A sequel to The Fire Mages’ Daughter.

Gabby has come to the conclusion that love is responsible for war, jealousy, and all the other deadly sins she can think of. So when she's exiled to the middle of nowhere for getting kicked out her fifth school for fighting, she doesn't expect to meet Jake. Much less fall in love.When a demon guardian comes to collect her soul, she refuses to give it up. She's not a demon. She can't be. Her father and twin brother are angels. The demon gives Gabby twenty-four hours to decide her allegiance and then starts killing her short list of friends, leaving a message behind: She is the Second Sign.As Gabby and Jake begin to unravel the mystery behind the Second Sign, she learns Jake may be the key to saving her soul. But it means a sacrifice has to be made that will change their lives forever.

The Sulu Queen was steaming south at an eight-knot clip, which for her was exceedingly good, bound for Macassar, Singapore and way ports, according to the dispensation of Providence. Her tail shaft was likely to go at any minute; she had an erratic list to starboard; her pumps could barely keep down the water that seeped through her loose plates; but she was going. Just to be going was an achievement for the Sulu Queen . She was certain not to be going for very long.Her Macaense-or Portuguese Eurasian-skipper was enjoying an opium dream in his cabin. Her chief engineer, a one-eyed Cyclops who had long since buried his Glasgow accent under a maze of tropic profanity, was dead drunk. Her black gang was composed of Macao coolies. Her men forward were lascars, under a mild-eyed Malay serang who was an escaped murderer from Bilibid Prison. Her two quartermasters were Chinese, and efficient. Her supercargo was a Straits Chinese comprador, a Singapore man. Her mate was a hulking Dutchman, rotten with gin alow and aloft. Her second mate was Jim Barnes, for whose labor all these others drew pay.

A sinister organization based near Oxford, England, has found a way to train spies in telepathy and other skills – and Cassandra gets mixed up with them when trying to find out if her twin sister is still alive. A great story and a must-read thriller for those who like a touch of sci fi/ fantasy and an alternative reality not so far from our own. This is the first of three adventures about Cassandra and the secret organization (The Execution Code and The Binary Conversion).

Rival gods at war. Mind-bonded giant beasts. A fanatical golden army. Dangerous blood magic. Drina is juggling her twin roles as heir to the Bennamore ruler and wife of a living god. Now the tenuous peace with the fearsome Blood Clans is put to the test as her prisoner-husband, Ly-haam, is challenged by the emergence of a second god, and Drina’s lover, Arran, makes a costly mistake. Meanwhile, on the southern Plains of Kallanash, a new force is arising — a vast golden army, raised in ferocious discipline, and fanatical followers of another kind of god, who is determined to spread his power into an empire, and will let nothing stand in his way. To combat the threat, Drina, Arran and Ly-haam must set aside their personal differences and combine their talents in a uniquely dangerous way which will test their heroism to its limits. How much will they have to sacrifice to save their country? A sequel to The Fire Mages’ Daughter.

A recurring nightmare awakens eighteen year-old John Moore in a panic. For nearly a year the same terrifying dreams have haunted the young pirate: demon-faced thieves murdering a sleeping crew and a devastating fire aboard a small brigantine. When John recognizes a small token from his dreams in a drawer aboard his father’s ship, he begins to realize that these nightmares may have dangerous ties with reality. After a foolish mistake rips John away from his old life, he discovers that his destiny lies in the secrets of an old shipwreck. With nothing to lose, the pirate embarks on a quest to find the legendary wreckage, all the while piecing together his past.