Though Darkness Falls
(2018)Four Novels of Darkness and Light
A collection of stories by Michaelbrent Collings
From internationally-bestselling author Michaelbrent Collings come four heroines, four stories that will take you from darkness to light and back again.
PETER & WENDY: A TALE OF THE LOST - Eve lives a terrible life: bullied at school, alcoholic mother, no-show father. But one day, a boy shows up and sweeps her off her feet. The only problem is that he wants to kill her. Because his name is Peter Pan, and he's far darker a creature than the tales would have you believe. Now, the only person who can save her is Captain Hook, vampire hunter and sworn protector of Eve's family line...
THE RIDEALONG - It's been a month since Melissa's father, an LAPD cop, was shot. Afraid something will happen, she doesn't want him to go back - so her dad offers to let her come on a ridealong. She'll go with him on his shift. No big deal; she's done it a thousand times. Only this time is different. She and her father have been framed for murder, and must find the killer before they are caught. With a shocking twist you won't see coming, The Ridealong is the only indie novel ever to be a Finalist for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a YA Novel.
KILLING TIME - It sounds like just another urban legend -- a clock appears in your home, ticking backward to midnight, and when the twelfth chime rings, the recipient is gruesomely murdered. But when Kristen receives a clock of her own, ticking backward to her doom, she must unravel its mysteries. Mysteries that have their roots in her family, and that will lead her through generations of madness. Life or death, it's only a matter of time...
THE SWORD CHRONICLES: CHILD OF THE EMPIRE - She is a Dog - one of the many children and teens across the empire of Ansborn who have been sentenced to fight in the arenas. There they fight in battle after battle until they die for the sport of the people of Ansborn - an empire built atop the peaks of five mountains. But one day she picks up a knife... and everything changes.She is a Greater Gift - one of a handful of magic users with powers so great they have only two choices: to join the Empire as one of its premier assassins, or die as a threat to the Empire itself. She is no longer a Dog. Now, she is Sword.
Genre: Children's Fiction
PETER & WENDY: A TALE OF THE LOST - Eve lives a terrible life: bullied at school, alcoholic mother, no-show father. But one day, a boy shows up and sweeps her off her feet. The only problem is that he wants to kill her. Because his name is Peter Pan, and he's far darker a creature than the tales would have you believe. Now, the only person who can save her is Captain Hook, vampire hunter and sworn protector of Eve's family line...
THE RIDEALONG - It's been a month since Melissa's father, an LAPD cop, was shot. Afraid something will happen, she doesn't want him to go back - so her dad offers to let her come on a ridealong. She'll go with him on his shift. No big deal; she's done it a thousand times. Only this time is different. She and her father have been framed for murder, and must find the killer before they are caught. With a shocking twist you won't see coming, The Ridealong is the only indie novel ever to be a Finalist for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a YA Novel.
KILLING TIME - It sounds like just another urban legend -- a clock appears in your home, ticking backward to midnight, and when the twelfth chime rings, the recipient is gruesomely murdered. But when Kristen receives a clock of her own, ticking backward to her doom, she must unravel its mysteries. Mysteries that have their roots in her family, and that will lead her through generations of madness. Life or death, it's only a matter of time...
THE SWORD CHRONICLES: CHILD OF THE EMPIRE - She is a Dog - one of the many children and teens across the empire of Ansborn who have been sentenced to fight in the arenas. There they fight in battle after battle until they die for the sport of the people of Ansborn - an empire built atop the peaks of five mountains. But one day she picks up a knife... and everything changes.She is a Greater Gift - one of a handful of magic users with powers so great they have only two choices: to join the Empire as one of its premier assassins, or die as a threat to the Empire itself. She is no longer a Dog. Now, she is Sword.
Genre: Children's Fiction
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