Bøger af Amanda M Blake

Be Yourself. Become Yourself.Can you keep a secret? In the aftermath of the exposed affair, Tobin isn't doing so well, pulling away from Olivia, his work, his life. When he ends up in a club to hate himself in someone else's company, he crosses paths with Ephraim, an enterprising alchemist with whom he experiences instant unexpected chemistry. Just as uncomfortable with his identity as Tobin, Ephraim offers him something no one else has: answers about who he is and the chance to change. Meanwhile, Olivia's dealing with her own fallout, but between a fire at the gallery, tense interpersonal relationships, and Tobin not acting like himself, she struggles to find a foundation that doesn't crumble beneath her feet. Someone doesn't want her in their fairy tale world. They're pulling the strings behind the scenes to systematically destroy her, and she has so much and so many people to lose.

Once upon a time, the woodsman rescued Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel cooked the gingerbread witch, And Cinderella snagged her prince with a discarded glass slipper. But Sleeping Beauty still sleeps in a thorn-locked castle, Snow White still lies preserved in her crystal coffin, and in a land not so far away, the Beast lives in the penthouse suite of Castle Apartments. When eccentric artist Olivia Rowe returns to the Castle to fulfill a childhood promise to its mysterious owner, Griffin, an assassination attempt against him catapults her into a world of hunters, witches, and enchantments-where fairy tales are real but happily-ever-afters are far from guaranteed. With a rogue hunter hot on their heels, they must journey between the modern world and the last remaining magical enclaves to rescue Snow White, the Sleeping Kingdom, and Griffin himself from Bluebeard, a powerful sorcerer on a life-stealing spree to achieve immortality. Series Advisory: Adult content of violent and sexual nature

The world is ending. His family is dead. And it's all the man's fault.There's no reason for him to go on. But he promised his eldest son that they'd explore the mountain cave near their home. They never got around to it, never enough time, always something in the way-work, school, other responsibilities, things that don't matter anymore. Now the man has all the time in the world, because everyone's out of time. Of all the broken promises, this is the one he is determined to keep. Along with the family dog, who he can't bear to leave behind, the man ventures into the cave. Though he doesn't expect or plan for either of them to live very long, the man still struggles to keep himself and the dog alive, struggles to survive one more day, just one more day. Yet the deeper into the mountain they go, the stranger and more dangerous the cave becomes. But that's the only thing left to do-go deeper.

Languishing in a dying urban landscape, photographer Willa Dearborn struggles to find something that excites her the same way that capturing images of animals in their wilder natural habitat did for years. Then she stumbles upon a strange creature that she's never seen before and can't identify, roaming an abandoned industrial park. Without hesitation, she seizes the opportunity to finally achieve something amazing right there in the city she hates by thoroughly documenting the life and growth of this unknown creature-and its prodigious appetite.

Hair as black as night, skin as white as bone, lips as red as blood... Just because the princess wakes up doesn't mean she's saved. After Sylvaine and the Sleeping Kingdom awaken from their enchantments, the Hunter Brotherhood struggles to help the cursed population adjust to life in the modern world. But when Sylvaine turns up in New York City with no explanation, then goes missing, the search leads Olivia, Griffin, and companions old and new deeper into even darker stories, more grim tales with endings that hadn't gone as planned. From giant rats to stolen hearts, it turns out saving princesses isn't as simple as a kiss. Series Advisory: Adult content of a violent and sexual nature

Every dream a nightmare.And every nightmare...real. It's been eight years since the car accident that stole Callie's voice and plagued her with terrifying nightmares every night. Four years since her family wrote her off as a lost cause and abandoned her at a boarding school for troubled teens. Despite friction with some of the other residents, seventeen-year-old Callie has nevertheless thrived in a place where they don't expect her to be normal, but she's not sure she's able to thrive anywhere else. Then one night, a man who calls himself the Guardian pulls her into a subterranean world filled with all the monsters from her dreams and ruled by the Night Mare herself. Down in the darklands, Callie's nightmarish creations worship her. Down in the darklands, she isn't tired or sick or hungry. Down in the darklands, she can speak. As her waking life deteriorates under the weight of exhaustion and other complications, Callie's nightly forays into the nightmare world also begin to take their toll. And it's getting harder to tell which world is really the nightmare.

After her mother's funeral, Dani nearly drowns at the lake where she's lived her entire life. She learned to swim before she could walk, but the water tingles and prickles over her skin, drawing her under. She's saved by a stranger who claims that the rains follow him, who sees when her father treats her the way a father shouldn't. Her mother left behind more than just memories and an empty lake house. And if Dani can't find it, she'll never break free from the shackles that her mother couldn't escape. "I have so much to tell you, my love. I can only hope that you heard me."

Pardon meif I seemtoo morbid, but it's my ownmemento mori.Sometimes Itend the dead;other times Iwhistle pastthe cemetery. Amanda M. Blake tackles the morbid and macabre in this poetry collection about death and dying and what might come before, during, or after. Whether humorous or disturbing, natural or supernatural, Dead Ends promises a varied tasting plate of a subject most people find distasteful or uncomfortable, but which we all must confront...eventually.

Bring elements three to me, bluebirds, My sweet blue witch and rose, And I shall set them free, As the story always goes. With everything that's happened to her over the last year, Olivia is taking a well-deserved break from all things fairy tale. If she goes a whole day without thinking about rats, princesses, and hearts being ripped out of chests, she counts that as a success. Then someone kidnaps Caspar and Tobin and enlists Adelaide and Olivia to rescue them in exchange for collecting a few magical items with no help from the Hunter Brotherhood. A rhyming ransom note is bad enough, but Olivia hadn't exactly planned on any quests, and a scavenger hunt for a manticore tail, faerie fruit, and burned wood from a lost city promises to be as simple as it sounds. Series Advisory: Adult content of violent and sexual nature.