This is the way the world ends. Again. Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries. Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.

an ugly girl who was short and dumpy, had one leg a bit shorter than the other, and her eyebrows met in the middle wanted to marry. Who will marry her while all the people made fun of her? Then, she married the wicker husband. what happened when she married him? What was the people's reaction?

He has called to her all her life, but she could never reply. . . Midonia, a freelance interplanetary transporter, is on thin ice after a fatal accident on the job. So she doesn’t argue when she’s given the tedious task of flying devout Sister Irena to a remote fringe planet, where a tiny religious colony worships a strange deity called Anguish. Until now. When a solar flare grounds her ship, Midonia finds herself stuck with the cult-like sisters. Even worse, he comes to her in the night, his familiar voice louder than ever. He invades her mind with his hunger, sparking a ravenous obsession that will be near-impossible to escape.

Where there are ghosts, Cassidy Blake follows ... unless it's the other way around? Cass thinks she might have this ghost-hunting thing down. After all, she and her ghost best friend, Jacob, have survived two haunted cities while travelling for her parents' TV show. But nothing can prepare Cass for New Orleans, which wears all of its hauntings on its sleeve. In a city of ghost tours and tombs, raucous music and all kinds of magic, Cass could get lost in all the colourful, grisly local legends. And the city's biggest surprise is a foe Cass never expected to face: a servant of Death itself. Cass takes on her most dangerous challenge yet...

an ugly girl who was short and dumpy, had one leg a bit shorter than the other, and her eyebrows met in the middle wanted to marry. Who will marry her while all the people made fun of her? Then, she married the wicker husband. what happened when she married him? What was the people's reaction?

DESIRE IS A DANGEROUS GAMBLEFor over a century, I’ve kept Las Vegas’s underworld in check—ensuring deals are made, debts are paid, and the fragile truce between Heaven and Hell holds. It’s a thankless job, an endless cycle of favors and threats, and I’ve grown tired of it.Then Zephyr waltzes into my life. A red-haired incubus with a sweet smile and a talent for aerial silks, he’s the newest star at The Devil’s Dollhouse, the city’s most infamous demon-owned strip club. I tell myself it’s just curiosity, just temptation. I’ll get him out of my system and move on. Then one night turns into two, and three and, before I know it, he’s under my skin. He’s an obsession I can’t afford.But the Dollhouse’s corrupt owner has his own agenda, and I’m the key to making it happen. Refusing the job could spell disaster. Accepting it could start a war. With Zephyr caught in the middle, the wrong choice might cost me more than just my heart.

The vamps have been out for years, and now the weres and shifters have decided to follow the lead of the undead and reveal their existence to the ordinary world. Sookie Stackhouse already knows about them, of course - her brother turns into a panther at the full moon, she's friend to the local were pack, and Sam, her boss at Merlotte's bar, is a shapeshifter. The great revelation goes well at first - then the horribly mutilated body of a were-panther is found in the parking lot of Merlotte's, and Sookie agrees to use her telepathic talent to track down the murderer. But there is a far greater danger than this killer threatening Bon Temps: a race of unhuman beings, older, more powerful, and far more secretive than the vampires or the werewolves, is preparing for war. And Sookie is an all-too-human pawn in their ages-old battle...