Hell Hounds Are for Suckers

Hell Hounds Are for Suckers
Author: Jessica McBrayer
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-09-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781942569183

Jessica McBrayer lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She's been writing her whole life and has eighteen books published through Mess of Geckos Publishing. With a background in biology, Jessica has done everything but use it to make a living. From working in marketing, social work, public speaking, a stay at home mom, and full time writer.

Suck It

Suck It
Author: J.J. Russell
Publisher: Evergrowth Coach LLC
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2015-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

I'm Vianne and I'm an alcoholic…and, apparently, a vampire hunter. I thought I had my demons on a leash. Turns out, my demons have fangs and my family tree is full of legendary vampire hunters. Now, I’m up to my neck in vampires out for my blood. Ancestor's legacy? Check. Killer instincts? Not so much. Without the mystical Artemis Necklace, my vampire hunting career is going to be incredibly short-lived. To stay alive, I'll need to trust a pushy hellhound and an experienced vampire hunter who’s as trustworthy as a wooden stake to the heart. With enemies lurking in the shadows and allies who might just stab me in the back, the hunt for the necklace could save me or be my final undoing. Get sucked into this snarky adventure with Vianne as she uncovers her clandestine family legacy in the first installment of a riveting paranormal mystery series. Keywords: Legendary vampire hunter, family legacy, female heroine, snarky characters, female monster hunter, female vampire hunter, urban fantasy

Hell Hounds Don't Heel

Hell Hounds Don't Heel
Author: Kim McDougall
Publisher: Valkyrie Bestiary
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2021-02-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781777214456

Critter wrangler rule 7: Some monsters just have to die. Someone is plotting to put all gargoyles in jail...or six feet in the ground. For decades gargoyles have patrolled the night in Montreal Ward. They are dubbed Guardians by the humans and fae who live on the fringes of society, those who survive in neighborhoods the police don't care about. But when a Guardian is accused of murder, their reputation blackens. Mason promised to return from France with the one weapon capable of killing the formidable witch who was reborn from the bloodstone, but no one has heard from him in months. Now Polina gathers forces. Without Mason or the Guardians, Kyra has no backup as she tries to solve a murder and face off against new and terrifying monsters...all while caring for her growing menagerie of extraordinary critters. A new adventure in the Inbetween, where magic is the only rule of law. Hell Hounds Don't Heel is the third book in the Valkyrie Bestiary Series.

Hell Hounds of High School

Hell Hounds of High School
Author: Patricia Marie Budd
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2011-04-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1450242677

Students of the new millennium meet a tough adversary when they go up against Mrs. Priscilla Bird, a veteran teacher practicing her craft in northern Alberta, Canada. She struggles with parents, students, and administrators during a time when self-entitlement rules. Mrs. Bird helps and confronts students with all types of problems. There is Greg, whose loyalty to his father is getting in the way of overcoming an addiction to drugs. Mary and Frank endure daily abuse at the hands of their peers, and their lives may even be in danger. Others at the school also are doing their best to help students navigate their way through a tough and confusing world. Mr. Lloyd, a counselor, is troubled that he cant seem to help Greg, but he somehow manages to keep other students in school who would otherwise slip through the cracks. Take a close, comical, and realistic look at a Catholic school system and discover why dedicated people at a revered institution dont always have all the answers in Hell Hounds of High School.

Thieves' World® Volume One

Thieves' World® Volume One
Author: Robert Lynn Asprin
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504060458

Experience “a bold and daring experiment in fantasy storytelling” with the first three books in the bestselling Thieves’ World® series (Fantasy-Faction). Created by the New York Times–bestselling author of the Myth series, as well as the Phule’s Company series, Thieves’ World® brings together classic fantasy’s finest authors to flesh out the shared world with their own unforgettable characters and epic worldbuilding. The first three books include stories by Lynn Abbey, Poul Anderson, Robert Lynn Asprin, Marion Zimmer Bradley, C. J. Cherryh, David Drake, Philip José Farmer, Joe Haldeman, Janet Morris, Andrew J. Offutt, and others. They introduce you to the nefarious citizens of the city of Sanctuary, including One-Thumb, the proprietor of the Vulgar Unicorn tavern; Regli, a nobleman; Illyra, the seer; Hanes, the thief; Jubal, the crime lord; and Tempus Thales, the immortal mercenary. “Game of Thrones has come to an end. . . . [Here’s] a fantasy series to fill the void. . . . You’ll be pulled into political intrigues, watch new gods replace old, and witness fortunes rise and fall and rise again.” — Book Riot “Sanctuary was the city where anything could happen, where characters created by some of the best fantasy writers of the generation crossed paths and shared adventures.” —Black Gate

A Breath of Frost

A Breath of Frost
Author: Alyxandra Harvey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2014-01-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0802734456

In 1814, three cousins-Gretchen, Emma, and Penelope-discover their family lineage of witchcraft when a binding spell is broken, allowing their individual magical powers to manifest. Now, beyond the manicured gardens and ballrooms of Regency London, an alluring underworld available only to those with power is revealed to the cousins. By claiming their power, the three cousins have accidentally opened the gates to the underworld. Now ghouls, hellhounds-and most terrifying of all, the spirits of dark witches known as the Greymalkin Sisters-are hunting and killing young debutante witches for their powers. And, somehow, Emma is connected to the murders...because she keeps finding the bodies. Can the cousins seal the gates before another witch is killed...or even worse, before their new gifts are stripped away?

Shadows of Sanctuary

Shadows of Sanctuary
Author: Joe Haldeman
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504060091

The third Thieves’ World® anthology—with stories by fantasy’s favorite authors—curated by the New York Times–bestselling author of the Myth series. Times are hard, and the citizens of Sanctuary are not their greedy, immoral, grifting selves. But desperate times call for desperate measures, which means the bad guys are about to up their game. No one is safe from Sanctuary’s evil charms—not the fish in the waters, not the prince’s own Hell Hound guards, not even Satan himself. “Shadows also includes another story by Offutt that reinforces my opinion that he is incapable of writing a bad story for this series. A number of the tales are Tempus stories, with several of our other recurring characters also making appearances. By virtue of Tempus’ unique relationship with the god Vashanka, these stories also bring us back toward the storyline of the competing deities, and help us to look forward to new developments in the fourth book. All in all, Shadows is the strongest book amongst the first three publications.” —Fantasy-Faction

Hard to Find

Hard to Find
Author: Briana Michaels
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2019-07-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781076012784

They won't stop hunting until the twins are found... even if all that remain are bones.Twin Hell Hounds, Drake and Sebastian, are missing and Valor and Bishop search everywhere to find them. The more time that passes, the less hope they have and now they're getting desperate. In a last attempt to save his pack, Valor breaks every rule he has - including spilling secrets to a human woman in exchange for her help. This woman might be the answer to their prayers... or a fresh new Hell to wreak havoc in their lives. Dangerous, cunning, and filled with fire...Matilda "Tilly" Jane already has her hands full when two gorgeous, mysterious, charismatic men come into her life. Falling in love isn't her style, but using people for her personal benefit is. With her future looking bleak, she's prepared to do anything to stop the inevitable and doesn't care about the consequences. But Tilly can't run from her fate any more than she can run from the man who has been stalking her. Now, she has to decide: Tuck tail and run, or face her biggest challenge with a smile and the middle finger salute. At this point, what does she really have to lose?This is a Reverse Harem Novel with graphic language, sexual content, and violence. Don't step into this world unless you want to play with the big boys. And yeah, they run in packs. All the Hell Hounds do.Hard to Find is Book 1 in the Second Trilogy of the Hell Hounds Harem series. Must read entire trilogy in order.

Ancients of Days

Ancients of Days
Author: Paul McAuley
Publisher: Gateway
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2014-05-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 057512041X

On an artificial world created and seeded with ten thousand bloodlines by the long-vanished Preservers, young Yama's ancestry is unique, for he appears to be the last remaining scion of the Builders, closest of all races to the worshipped architects of Confluence. And on a day near the end of the world, Yama must finally acknowledge the power he neither anticipated nor desires. In the dust of many crumbling bureaucracies, Yama searches for an identity and a history - awed and fearful of his ever-growing capacity to awaken the terrible machines of destruction that his world's absent gods left slumbering. To the common folk - the unshaped and aboriginal - he is the fulfillment of age-old prophecies. To the functionaries of the Department of Indigenous Affairs, he is a weapon to be molded and used in the bloody civil war raging at the planet's midpoint - a seemingly endless battle that pits those who revere the Preservers' laws against the dangerous Heretics who would obliterate all antiquated values and codes of conduct. But there are still others who have taken notice of Yama as he pursues the hidden secrets of his past. Intelligent powers older than the Builders - as old, perhaps, as the Preservers themselves - are pursuing Yama in turn. And they will stop at nothing to control his present-and, as a result, the future of everything that lives-in anticipation of the ultimate triumph of the Ancients of Days.

Restoration Theatre and Crisis

Restoration Theatre and Crisis
Author: Susan J. Owen
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1996-11-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191584002

Restoration Theatre and Crisis is a seminal study of the drama of the Restoration, in particular that of the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis. This was a time of unprecedented political partisanship in the theatre. This book cosniders all the known plays of this period, including works by Dryden and Behn, in their historical context. It examines the complex ways in which the drama both reflected and intervened in the political process, at a time when the crisis fractured an already fragile post-interregnum consensus, and modern party political methods first began to develop. Susan Owen discusses the ways in which Tory and Whig playwrights engaged in dramatic dialogue, deliberately commenting on and revising each other's themes and topics. The book also explores the arena of sexual politics, examining the political significance of themes such as disharmony in the family, and the importance of rape as a dramatic signifier of monstrosity associated with rebellion by the Tories and tyranny and popery by the Whigs. Restoration Theatre and Crisis considers the use of sexuality as a political discourse, and ways in which ideas about libertinism and constructions of masculinity and femininity intersect with political concerns in the drama. Thus the book bridges the gap between `gender-blind' political accounts and studies which have focused on gender themes in the drama in isolation from party politics.