Résultats pour "KC Cowan" dans Littérature et fiction

Best friends Nan and Irene want what all 16-year-old girls in their village want - to find true love and marry. Instead, they're going to have to defeat an evil wizard. When Irene and Nan's village is attacked by the army of the Secret Valley, the two girls are taken captive - destined to become "playthings" to the King. When they learn an evil wizard, known as the Black Lord, is the real power behind the Secret Valley, their only hope is to escape to Wizards' Keep and persuade the last remaining wizards to come out of retirement and help defeat the Black Lord.

A 1938 cocktail of lies, love, and murder. After steeling her nerves to leave the swindler she married, Catherine Reedy hopes for a brighter future for her two-year-old son. That dream turns into a nightmare when the corrupt chief of police fishes her husband’s corpse out of the Mississippi and vows she’ll hang for his murder. Someone wants Cat dead sooner - before the annual Street Fair leaves town. The handsome cop who offers to help Cat seems honorable. But who can she trust? Everyone she knows has secrets.

Is the rising number of abused women who've gone missing a statistical anomaly? Or is a serial killer targeting this vulnerable group of women? When the Milwaukee Police Department refuses to investigate because no bodies have been discovered, Lisa Rayburn, the clinical psychologist who discovers the anomaly, is drawn into an investigation to discover the cause after one of her own clients goes missing.

What do you suppose would happen if, through a series of unfortunate events, you found yourself trapped in an asylum and couldn't get out again? Alma, our main character in this bizarre tale, finds herself in just such a predicament. Now she's on the run, down the halls and corridors of Pine Haven Sanitarium with a tall, husky orderly in white hot on her heels. She finds refuge in one resident's room but soon wishes she'd stayed to face the orderly.