Secrets of the Serpent's Eye

Secrets of the Serpent's Eye
Author: StoryBuddiesPlay
Publisher: StoryBuddiesPlay
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2024-06-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In the heart of a hidden mountain temple, Jin Sato awakens to a forgotten past. Branded the Steel Serpent, he discovers a powerful artifact – the Serpent's Eye – and a destiny thrust upon him. But the world he's inherited teeters on the brink of chaos. The fanatical Order of the Obsidian Sun seeks the Eye's destructive potential, and only the Steel Serpent stands in their way. Join Jin on a thrilling adventure as he unlocks his forgotten skills, deciphers ancient riddles, and confronts the trials that will shape him into the protector he was born to be. Can he master the Eye's power before the Order unleashes an apocalyptic ritual during a celestial eclipse? With the wise guardian Kestrel by his side and the resourceful tech-whiz Akari providing backup, Jin faces brutal battles, mind-bending puzzles, and the whispers of his own fragmented memories. But an unexpected message emerges – the Serpents of the Sun, a rumored clan with knowledge of the serpent's legacy, offer their aid. Will they become allies, or do they harbor their own hidden agenda? The fate of the world hangs in the balance as the Steel Serpent embarks on a perilous journey to the Himalayas, seeking the secrets that lie within the Serpents of the Sun's jade temple. Unravel the mysteries of the Serpent's Eye, experience the clash between light and darkness, and witness the rise of the Steel Serpent in this epic saga of power, redemption, and the fight for a brighter future.

Clive Cussler's The Serpent's Eye

Clive Cussler's The Serpent's Eye
Author: Robin Burcell
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2025-06-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1405951540

Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo face a new exciting adventure, continuing the bestselling series from UK No. 1 Bestseller Clive Cussler, the Grand Master of Adventure. The latest action-packed thriller featuring treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo. Praise for Clive Cussler: 'The Adventure King' Sunday Express 'Just about the best in the business' New York Post 'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

Snake Eye

Snake Eye
Author: William C. Dietz
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 149760673X

An FBI special agent finds her personal and professional lives colliding in this crime novel by a New York Times–bestselling author. FBI Special Agent Christina Rossi had it all—for a while: a loving family, a career on an upward track, the works. Then a takedown of some eco-terrorists turned unexpectedly bloody, questions are being asked and the fast track is nothing but a memory as she doggedly pursues a slave labor case that might involve a Chinese mob and might be a complete bust. The family went away during an ugly divorce and her ex-husband’s high-end life with a beautiful, upscale new wife has lured her daughter into a risky social circle and turned her against her mother. Things are almost too good to be true when a new man in her life, Jack Dexter, handsome, smart and very well-off, brings about a startlingly wonderful romance and a change in her day-to-day circumstances and even connects her to some information on the seemingly dead-end case she won’t give up. Too good to be true turns out to be what’s going on when a pervert’s murder starts to unfold Dexter’s dark secrets, her case begins turning into an uncontrollable monster and her daughter’s life hangs in the balance.

Reflections in a Serpent's Eye

Reflections in a Serpent's Eye
Author: Micaela Janan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2009-10-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 019955692X

A study of the role of the city of Thebes in Books 3 and 4 of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Micaela Janan uses the psychoanalytic theory of Freud and Lacan to argue that the strangely fantastical way in which it is presented shows Ovid posing questions that ultimately relate to the concept of collective identity.

The Moonstone

The Moonstone
Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1999-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780140434088

"When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else." The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel’s household is above suspicion. Hailed by T. S. Eliot as "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels," The Moonstone is a marvellously taut and intricate tale of mystery, in which facts and memory can prove treacherous and not everyone is as they first appear. Sandra Kemp’s introduction examines The Moonstone as a work of Victorian sensation fiction and an early example of the detective genre, and discusses the technique of multiple narrators, the role of opium, and Collins’s sources and autobiographical references.

The Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent

The Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent
Author: Lynne A. Isbell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2009
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0674033019

The global prominence of snakes in religion, myth, and folklore underscores our deep connection to them—but why, when few of us have firsthand experience? The answer, Isbell suggests, lies in snakes’ singular impact on primate evolution; predation pressure from snakes is ultimately responsible for the superior vision and large brains of primates.

The Man and the Snake

The Man and the Snake
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher: Modernista
Total Pages: 11
Release: 2024-06-13
Genre:
ISBN: 918108028X

»The Man and the Snake« is a short story by Ambrose Bierce, originally published in 1893. AMBROSE BIERCE [1842-1914] was an American author, journalist, and war veteran. He was one of the most influential journalists in the United States in the late 19th century and alongside his success as a horror writer he was hailed as a pioneer of realism. Among his most famous works are The Devil's Dictionary and the short story »An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.«

God's Demon

God's Demon
Author: Wayne Barlowe
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2008-12-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429911131

God's Demon is a "fascinating"* dark fantasy novel of a fallen warrior seeking atonement from award-winning author and renowned artist Wayne Barlowe. Lucifer's War, which damned legions of angels to Hell, is an ancient and bitter memory shrouded in the smoke and ash of the Inferno. The Fallen, those banished demons who escaped the full wrath of Heaven, have established a limitless and oppressive kingdom within the fiery confines of Hell. Lucifer has not been seen since the Fall and the mantle of rulership has been passed to the horrific Prince Beelzebub, the Lord of the Flies. The Demons Major, Heaven's former warriors, have become the ruling class. They are the equivalent to landed lords, each owing allegiance to the de facto ruler of Hell. They reign over their fiefdoms, tormenting the damned souls and adding to their wealth. One Demon Major, however, has not forgotten his former life in Heaven. The powerful Lord Sargatanas is restless. For millennia Sargatanas has ruled dutifully but unenthusiastically, building his city, Adamantinarx, into the model of an Infernal metropolis. But he has never forgotten what he lost in the Fall—proximity to God. He is sickened by what he has become. Now, with a small event—a confrontation with one of the damned souls—he makes a decision that will reverberate through every being in Hell. Sargatanas decides to attempt the impossible, to rebel, to endeavor to go Home and bring with him anyone who chooses to follow . . . be they demon or soul. He will stake everything on this chance for redemption. *Guillermo del Toro, Academy Award-Winning Director of The Shape of Water At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Serpent

Serpent
Author: Clive Cussler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2011-05-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1451627106

Clive Cussler's bestselling Serpent will now be published in our popular premium format with an exciting new cover.

The Lady of Serpents - A Vampire Dark Fantasy Epic

The Lady of Serpents - A Vampire Dark Fantasy Epic
Author: Douglas Clegg
Publisher: Alkemara Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2014-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0985050586

With ancient sorceries unleashed, this game of thrones and vampires begin anew as a dark adversary holds Aleric, the Falconer, prisoner -- and prey. In this, the second book of The Vampyricon, New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg continues the epic dark saga of Aleric, the newly-anointed priest-king of the tribe of vampyres. The kingdom is home of the shadow-priests of the Veil, who whisper dark secrets to their new queen as white towers rise and forests fall. Heretics burn on the Illumination Nights and an enormous arena houses endless gladiatorial blood-fights between vampyre and shapeshifter, and somewhere in the bowels of the castle sits an infernal machine for the torment of the vampyre race -- called the Red Scorpion. In a medieval world, within a forgotten century where dark and dangerous magic lies hidden among lost cities of legend, Aleric the Falconer must escape his prison and find the vampyre Pythia, who has been taken prisoner herself halfway across the world. Be sure to get the rest of the Vampyricon trilogy: The Queen of Wolves, Book Three Praise for The Vampyricon: "If you like Game of Thrones and vampires, you're going to love The Vampyricon." - Robert Swartwood, USA Today bestselling author of The Serial Killer's Wife and New Avalon. “Astonishing. Douglas Clegg writes of…nightmares with such clarity and passion you don’t end up reading his books; you end up drinking them in. The Priest of Blood is a bloody gem.” Christopher Rice, New York Times bestselling author of The Vines and Heaven's Rise. "A dark tale of swords, sorcery, and vampires." -- Christine Feehan, NY Times bestselling author. "Douglas Clegg has accomplished a rarity in the horror vein...This book will sink its teeth into you" -- The Kansas City Star "Richly layered, beautifully rendered foray into a past filled with sorcery and mystery -- and a rousing good story." -- Kelley Armstrong, New York Times bestselling author Stunning...gives the iconic vampire a massive makeover. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review. Discover Douglas Clegg's fiction: Lights Out Neverland The Children’s Hour The Halloween Man You Come When I Call You The Hour Before Dark Nightmare House Bad Karma Goat Dance Breeder Afterlife Purity Dark of the Eye The Words Wild Things Red Angel Night Cage Mischief The Infinite The Abandoned The Necromancer Isis Naomi The Nightmare Chronicles The Attraction Night Asylum The Priest of Blood The Lady of Serpents The Queen of Wolves