Showing results for "Angel Child" in Literature & Fiction

The war has only just begun. While rescuing a world from Centaur control, the Marines discover that not all humans on the planet are slaves. The Children of Angels believe their masters have been sent by the gods to lift up mankind. Humanity now has two enemies, one from the farthest reaches of the Galaxy and the other from within.

In the year 2010 after the Invasion of Heaven, human psychonauts trample the sacred fields of Heaven, and the angels retreat to higher altitudes to avoid the contamination of the physical. In the year 2050 the Millennial Wars have reduced the Earth to a devastated battleground. In the year 3000 the evil Humen are determined to destroy the power of Heaven, while the Residuals, a primitive race of people, live fearfully in the ruins of civilisation. In the midst of this hatred and fear is born a unique friendship that could change the course of history.

?New York Times Bestseller ""Hypnotic and darkly funny. . . . Belongs to a particular strain of American gothic that encompasses The Twilight Zone, Stephen King and Twin Peaks, with a bit of Tremors thrown in."" —The Guardian “A splendid, weird, moving novel.”— NPR.org From the creators...

Keith Donohue’s first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national bestseller hailed as “captivating” (USA Today), “luminous and thrilling” (Washington Post), and “wonderful...So spare and unsentimental that it’s impossible not to be moved (Newsweek. His new novel, Angels of Destruction...

Cadence Lightbringer has everything. The prestige and power that comes with being the Angel of Storm Castle. Her archangel husband and soulmate, Damiel Dragonsire, Master Interrogator in the Legion of Angels. And their son Nero, a miracle of magic, the first and only child of two angels. But the Legion's mission to exterminate dark magic brings trouble to Cadence's door. What begins as a mission to apprehend a rogue angel escalates into a hunt for ancient relics that will turn her life upside down.

Alguien llama con urgencia a la puerta del capitán Alex Riley en plena madrugada. Adormilado, se levanta de la cama y desciende las escaleras para ver de quién se trata y, al abrir, se encuentra con tres hombres uniformados que le ordenan que los acompañe. A Riley no le queda otro remedio que obedecer, sin sospechar, ni remotamente, que a partir de ese momento se verá arrastrado a la aventura más oscura y perturbadora de su vida.

Un investigador que resuelve casos a partir de rastros en los insectos, una mujer acechada por un detective para desentrañar un misterio relacionado con la sangre, un hombre que sueña con cataclismos aéreos, centros siquiátricos que esconden historias escalofriantes, un asesinato colectivo que involucra a varios matrimonios, un espantapájaros que guarda los secretos de un grupo de niños, una pitonisa que sólo vaticina atrocidades, así como una guerra a muerte desatada en un pueblo durante la noche de brujas.