Parker is still mourning his murdered wife and child while attempting devotion to his new wife, Rachel, and their baby daughter, Sam. At Sam's christening, his partner receives an uninvited guest: his aunt, distraught at the disappearance of her daughter. It doesn't take much to draw Parker back into the game, and soon he's stumbling onto clues regarding the Black Angel, a statue associated with a Czech ossuary and sought by various evildoers for centuries—or perhaps a living, bloodthirsty spirit.
Tormented and racked with guilt over the brutal slaying of his wife and daughter, Charlie Parker, ex-cop with the NYPD, agrees to track down a missing girl. It is a search that will lead him into an abyss of evil. At the same time, he gets warned by an old woman that 'The Travelling Man' is about to strike again. Multiple strands converge with a horrific confrontation in which hunter and hunted are intimately connected by guilt.
This acclaimed and bestselling romantic historical novel by award-winning author Ciji Ware tells the true story of passionate and flamboyant Jane Maxwell, the 4th Duchess of Gordon (1749-1812). In love since childhood with Thomas Fraser, when she hears that he's been killed in America, she marries the Duke of Gordon with disastrous results. But Fraser, very much alive, returns to England to claim her love.
Demons begin to rise from the depths of the abyss, Shayol, to plague the mortal world with chaos and destruction. And this time, the Gods are unable to interfere with them, leaving the world's Fate in a questionable state. But when all hope seems lost, five mysterious travelers suddenly appear to stop a cataclysmic war of epic proportion, and put an end to the rising Demon Reign.
Washington Square by Henry James (graded reader, level: pre-intermediate)
Catherine Sloper, an insignificant, plain girl, will one day inherit a substantial fortune from her father. When her overwhelming passion for a handsome fortune hunter transforms her dull existence, Catherine's distinguished father, her interfering aunt and her selfish lover all play with her feelings to satisfy their own needs, and succeed in breaking her heart.
