Showing results for "Mother" in First Contact

Mother's Night had passed unmarked for many years for Betani and her children. After all, there was little to celebrate when living on the streets. This year was different. For the first time, they are going to celebrate Mother's Night and holiday cheer fills their small apartment despite the tight control of the warders who have risen to power in the poor districts. Despite her limited means, when a triad shows up on her doorstep during a snowstorm with their poisoned lead male, she can't turn them out.

It is on this planet, where only the Windmasters can summon the devastating power of rain, gale, thunder, and lightning, that the last surviving remnants of humankind have come, fleeing the destruction of their empire at the hands of the alien Csendook. And it is here the human race will be resurrected...or exterminated. The sorcerers of this barbaric, inhospitable world have vowed to cleanse Innasmorn of the uninvited "abomination".

Max Edwards has always felt like something was wrong with the world. Like something was...off. Like his entire life was a lie being told by the people around him. Then, it begins. From his friend’s acreage outside Oklahoma City, he witnesses a giant saucer descend from the sky to hover over the city. Countries all around the world report the same thing - mysterious vessels that refuse all attempts to communicate. As the world comes apart at the seams, Max realizes everything that’s ever happened to him was leading up to this.

Der tausend Jahre lang um die Unbekannte Welt gehüllte Mantel des Schweigens beginnt zu zerfleddern und der Patriarch ist müde. Er muss einen Nachfolger finden. Er findet Bethany Anne. Unbekannt, unerfahren und unerprobt macht sie sich auf, das Unmögliche zu schaffen und eine neue Zukunft zu schmieden. Eine Zukunft, von der niemand wusste, dass sie in Gefahr war. Und das tut sie mit einer Lebenseinstellung, die Dir gefallen wird, ohne Rücksicht auf jahrhundertealte Traditionen und Regeln.