She’s learned how from one of the sickest killers alive.īut what she’s up against is beyond anything she feared-a sophisticated and savage mind game calculated to destroy her. Now, with the help of Sam Cade, brother of one of Melvin’s victims, Gwen is going hunting. Gwen leaves her children in the protective custody of a fortified, well-armed neighbor. Her refuge at Stillhouse Lake has become a trap. Gwen Proctor won the battle to save her kids from her ex-husband, serial killer Melvin Royal, and his league of psychotic accomplices. Now her eyes are open, and he’s not going away. Published by Brilliance Audio on December 12, 2017Īmazon, Audible, Audiobook, Barnes & Noble, AppleĮvery time Gwen closed her eyes, she saw him in her nightmares. Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith, Dan John Miller, Will Ropp, Lauren Ezzo
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Ninjak – “He is like a ninja…with machine guns!” “I always kind of draw the pages in my head, so I’m usually surprised when an artist sets things up differently than I would.” – Jeff Parker. He started as an artist in the mid-90s and has used his 30 years in the industry to push boundaries and bring unforgettable characters to life. You can find his art and writing work on titles by Marvel, DC Comics, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, IDW Publishing, Valiant Comics, and Oni Press. Jeff Parker’s works span the nation’s top-ranked comic and graphic novel companies. Catwoman: 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super SpectacularĬomic Book Writer, Penciler, Inker, Colorist & Artist!.Get your tickets today and get Jeff’s unique views on comics from both the artist and writer’s perspectives. Mark September 9th-11th on your 2022 convention calendar. Fans of Ninjak, X-Men: First Class, and Agents of Atlas, don’t miss your chance to meet Marvel comic book artist Jeff Parker and several other fan-favorites at Rose City Comic Con in Portland, OR. Regence Hooke, meanwhile, is an extremely crooked cop with a thing for Elodie and a thing for vengeance. At fifteen, he’s got an apprenticeship with Willard Carnahan, a moonshine runner, and hopes he’ll be able to afford to pay off his stepfather’s debts and move his mother out of town at last. With a police record a mile long behind him and his mom struggling under the debts left by his stepfather, Squib wants to be good but is trapped in a cycle of rebellion. Squib Moreau is a young fatherless kid living in the swamp, whose sainted mother Elodie’s heart was broken by the disappearance of his stepfather. It’s not a condition he’s particularly happy about, but as long as he has access to TV and food, he’s generally content, though incredibly lonely and incredibly aware that he’s the last of his kind. Vodka-loving, pop-culture immersed Vern – Formerly Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie – is a dragon who’s been hidden away from human eyes for years, living in a swamp, watching Netflix and snarking on cryptid hunters. Artemis Fowl creator Eoin Colfer turns his hand to adult fantasy in this amusing piece of work that’s a southern fried Howard the Duck, a shade Dragonheart, and all original. “From the moment I could remember, it was made very clear to me that I was going to the United States,” he says. Díaz nods in agreement, settling into the chair across from where I am seated. As immigrant children, I begin, we learn at a very young age to view America as a kind of utopia, a place to be lauded. It is a cold Monday afternoon in early January, and I am in Cambridge, Mass., to discuss the novel, which turns 10 this September, with its author, Junot Díaz. It is this dream that is at the center of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. In America, the land of opportunity and democracy, anything is possible. This dream tells us that no matter our circumstances elsewhere, in America we can make it. We leave behind families and careers many of us leave to survive, escaping countries shrouded in violence and death. Terrifying, promising and elusive, it pulls us from our native lands. Now that Hannah knows the truth about me not actually working in cybersecurity-as well as the questionable things I’ve done to win her over-will I lose my dream girl forever, or is there still a chance for us to chase our happily ever after? Unfortunately, when catastrophe strikes, all my questions are rendered moot. I only wonder how a dork like me could possibly land a goddess like her. Hannah’s the kind of girl who’ll gleefully dance like a gorilla with me in the coolest nightclub or belt out a karaoke duet from Grease like her very life depends on it. Right, the very night I was set up with Hannah Milliken by our mutual friend, I knew I’d one day kneel before her with a ring in hand. The thing that’s not so easy for a shy guy like me? Finding Ms. The difference is mine will never be revealed, whereas I can easily get yours, assuming the price offered by your enemy is right and the scales of justice appeal to my personal standards of ethics. In my book, a character has to at least have our sympathy in order to carry a book forward. I hate Buk for these lines, and I'm just wondering what you all think. If there are any arguments to him being a sympathetic character it ends here. The man manages to degrade not only black people, but women as well. Sure I know Buk might have been speaking for white men at his time, but this is way too racist. He says, "Cunt! You set this up, didn't you? You'd let this monkey kill me for the lousy 4 or 5 hundred bucks in my wallet!" If y0u are a Buk fan, I don't know how you will defend this. (But don't get me wrong, I have read this entire novel). I loved this book up until the point in which he started saying this shit that pissed me off and made me skip pages till the end. What polarizes me from Bukowski's work is his use of the word monkey on page 116 of Post Office. Some consider me a black emo, although I don't even know what that means and I think the term is stupid to begin with. I've been raised in my culture to listen to Led Zeppelin, the Foo Fighters, and Metallica, and I've been fine growing up with my white friends. I'm black, but I listen to rock as hard as any other white guy I know. When Debra was a teenager, her mother died of cancer. Tough, foul-mouthed, and rompish, she craved her father's attention and envied Dexter for the amount of time Harry spent with him, unaware that Harry was training him to be a vigilante serial killer. Hall), whom Harry brought home after rescuing him from the scene of his mother's murder. She is the foster sister to Dexter Morgan ( Michael C. Debra is the sister of the series' antihero protagonist Dexter Morgan.Ĭharacter history Early life ĭebra was born to Doris (Kathrin Lautner Middleton) and Harry Morgan ( James Remar) on December 7, 1979. In Lindsay's novels, she first appeared in Darkly Dreaming Dexter and was featured in every novel in the series. She also appears in the television series, based on Lindsay's books, portrayed by Jennifer Carpenter. Savannah Paige Rae (young Debra, season 7)ĭebra Charlotte Morgan (spelled Deborah in the novels) is a fictional character created by Jeff Lindsay for his Dexter book series. Since then, she has branched into other genres including contemporary romantic suspense. Her first novel, GENTLE WARRIOR, was published by Pocket Books in 1985. After the publications of two young-adult books, she turned her talents to historical fiction. She began her writing career when the youngest of her three children entered school. Early in life, I learned that self expression had to be forceful, imaginative, and quick," says Ms. Add in the fact that I was the sixth of seven children. "The Irish are great storytellers who relish getting all of the details and nuances of every situation. Garwood attributes much of her success to growing up in a large family of Irish heritage. With more than 35 million books in print and 26 NEW YORK TIMES bestsellers, Julie Garwood has earned a position among America's favorite fiction writers.īorn and raised in Kansas City, MO, Ms. Her historical fantasy novels, THE FOREST HOUSE and LADY OF AVALON are prequels to MISTS OF AVALON. Over the years she turned more to fantasy THE HOUSE BETWEEN THE WORLDS was "fantasy undiluted." She wrote a best-selling novel of the women in the Arthurian legends-Morgan Le Fay, the Lady of the Lake, and others-entitled MISTS OF AVALON, and she also wrote THE FIREBRAND, a novel about the women of the Trojan War. She also edited an annual anthology called SWORD AND SORCERESS for DAW Books. Bradley edited many magazines, amateur and professional, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's FANTASY Magazine, which she started in 1988. She wrote everything from science fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels. She was a science fiction/fantasy fan from her middle teens, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to VORTEX SCIENCE FICTION. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67. Marion Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. |