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Piercing the Darkness
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Piercing the DarknessPiercing the Darkness

Love knows no bounds.Cursed by the dark mage who killed her, Hilda Janssen has wandered the Earthly plane as a ghost for fifty years, finally finding her place as an IRT hunter, policing supernatural misfits trapped on Earth after a brutal war. >When a demon attacks, putting her team in mortal danger, Hilda sacrifices herself to save her friends. She's already died once; what difference will doing it again make? But instead of meeting a final death,
 
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Tags: Hilda, danger, sacrifices, herself, friends, Piercing, Darkness, mortal
Whispers
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Whispers by Dean KoontzWhispers by Dean Koontzby Dean Koontz

Bruno Frye succumbs nightly to the whispers' malicious lullaby. Losing himself in their cries, he is deafened by whispers more piercing than any scream. In the dark recesses of his mind no act is too violent, no deed too shocking. He is driven to kill - even if it means returning from the grave.
 
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Tags: whispers, shocking, driven, violent, recesses, Whispers, Koontz, piercing
King Winter
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King WinterKing Winter

Published in 1859 by Gustav W. Seitz.

King Winter, the embodiment of the Christmas Spirit, leaves his palace of snow to bring winter to the land and reward obedient children with holiday sweets.

The sky is dull and grey,
Piercing and chill the blast,
Each step resounds on the frosty ground,
Winter is come at last.

 
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Tags: Winter, sweets, Piercing, holiday, children
Cormac McCarthy (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
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Cormac McCarthy (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Through a series of vivid and critically acclaimed novels, including "Blood Meridian", "All the Pretty Horses", "No Country for Old Men", and "The Road", Cormac McCarthy has established himself as a major voice in American fiction of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His works are marked by piercing explorations of the nature of evil and the uncontrollable forces that often govern human lives.

 
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Tags: McCarthy, explorations, nature, piercing, marked