Bøger af Christy Sloat

Not all princesses get their happily ever after...They tell me I killed my boyfriend Phillip in cold blood. I stabbed him twenty one times. I'm only seventeen years old, and I am serving life in Spindle Ridge Asylum for the Criminally Insane.I don't remember killing him, so it's really hard to believe I'm capable of murder. In fact I don't remember anything before I came to Spindle Ridge, not even my boyfriend.I can only grasp onto my realistic dreams while the madness of the asylum threatens to pull me under. I dream I'm a beautiful princess and there is an evil faerie named Maleficent who is bent on my destruction. The dreams are the closest thing I have to memories of my life, except they aren't real.I'm crazy. I'm not a princess. They're the mad illusions of an irrational teenage girl, right?They've assigned me a new doctor, and she says I can trust her, and that she'll help me see the truth of who I really am. When she arrived she brought a new patient, Sawyer, who is everything Spindle Ridge isn't: exciting, mysterious and beautiful. He promises he's here to rescue me. Trusting either of them frightens me.Could it be possible that my dreams are more than just the imaginings of a delusional girl? Could they be truth?

The Brown house isn't a house you want to mess with. It's that place where you and your friends go on a dare, but no one is brave enough to go inside, and if they do, they come out screaming. So when Brylee Branson and her family move in, it's not long before the evil things lurking in corners come out to play. Brylee just wants to acclimate to her new school but the ghosts in the house don't make that easy. You see Brylee has a gift, one that the dead need and if she can't help them they'll make her friends pay with their lives.

With the whimsy of Alice in Wonderland and the romance of Outlander, dive back into the next installment in the Librarian Chronicles. Savannah Preston has a rare and precious gift: The ability to time travel through books. She, and others who share this unique ability, are faced with the insurmountable task of preserving history. They are known collectively as The Librarians.While researching infamous Scottish outlaw Sir Malcolm Wash during the raging conflicts of the 14th Century, Savannah loses the only thing that tethers her to her own time. She must rely on her knowledge of both the present and the past to survive long enough to find a way home. Along the way, she enlists the help of a misfit named Eoin. With his guidance, she might just get home. It's a risky and dangerous adventure, but then, so is Eoin...

Summer school meant I could wipe the slate clean. I could become Sadie Peters, popular and outgoing, instead of the shy nobody only my best friend loved. My intentions were pure. I thought I could handle the transition to Alcott High, become someone else, all while keeping my integrity intact. But I was wrong. Those four weeks taught me things about people I never knew possible. I lost my best friend to a dangerous situation, and it was all my fault. All because I wanted to become someone I wasn't. Maybe who I was wasn't so horrible after all.

As a lover of books, Adam Giordano was accustomed to getting lost in the beauty of the written word. But never quite so literally. Cracking open the pages of one unique hardcover transports him to Colonial America on the verge of war.There, he meets a wild, Native American beauty by the name of Rose, whose life he fears is directly in the path of the brewing storm of battle. Enraptured by her, he struggles to find a way to save her from a history that may already be written.Will Adam's attempt at rescuing her prevent Rose from becoming the historical beacon she was meant to be?

The Brown house is taboo. It's not talked about in social circles, because it's too terrifying to imagine the horrors that went on inside its walls. Brylee isn't scared anymore, but that's because she's a dead-talker and can tolerate her ghostly roommates. She's trying to move on with her life after the crisis that took place, but it's hard to do so after the death of a loved one. When a body rises in her back yard, her town goes nuts. Suddenly they're banging on her door and shouting for justice. And once again, malevolence comes out to play. They say fire burns brighter in the darkness, but it also hurts like hell.

Amon has seen it all in the thousands of years he's walked this earth. As a demon, he's only ever wanted to live and feed unnoticed. But his need for blood always brought trouble. Finally, he's devised a foolproof plan to meet his needs and the needs of monsters like him. With the help of his demon son, a bloodthirsty vampire, a dark witch, and two very feral sirens, they will hunt humans who have sinned in the vilest ways. This savage hunt will not only feed them but deliver revenge the humans so desire. His flawless plan won't ever shatter. He'd bet his existence on it.

"Happily ever after is hers for the taking."Once upon a time I found myself locked away in Spindle Ridge Asylum, punished for a murder I didn't commit. It was all part of Maleficent's evil plan. I didn't remember who I was then ... now I do. My name is Aurora, and I am the rightful queen of this realm. Armed with my memories, I'm ready to take charge of my kingdom once more. Happily ever after evades me, yet I long to claim it with my true love, Sawyer, beside me. That fairy tale ending seems impossible with him locked in the thralls of a sleeping curse. As much as I'd love to sit by his bedside and eagerly await a cure, I must first travel into the terrifying Dark Woods to stop Raven from stripping me of all that is rightfully mine. I am not only a queen, but a warrior who will fight for her kingdom. Some may die. Blood will be shed. But when this ending comes, I will settle for nothing less than a blissful ever after.

Their love will always be forbidden in the eyes of Heaven, but Avery and Landon always seem to find each other. This time it's different. Forced to forget the echo of the many lives she's spent with her soulmate, Avery tries to move forward. With the threat of demon's on the rise once again, she feels her world and relationships begin to unravel. To keep her loved ones safe, she has no choice but to fight the darkness alone. While she falls apart, the stir of memories flood Landon's mind as he remembers where his soul belongs. But, is it worth ruining everything for love?

He's from 1892 England, she's in a small library in 2017. And that's just the start of their troubles.Emme never meant to stay in Maine. She'd come only to find a librarian for her Gram's library, a custodian for the collection of mysterious books she'd promised to protect. On a dark, wintery night, alone in the library, she takes her first glance into one of the antique novels and finds herself transported to 1892 England staring into the eyes of handsome and dashing hero Jack Ridgewell. As each chapter passes she learns you can truly fall in love with a character in a book, that book boyfriends are real and Emme must choose between the real world, and his.When the last page is read he's gone and Emme feels the cold loneliness of lost love. Will she find Jack again, or will their love be forever lost? The answer lies within the pages...

Kami thought she'd seen it all as a small time reporter for a New York Paper, but after hearing reports of the dead crawling from graves and attacking humans, she realized the world she once knew would never be the same again. Forced to flee the city, she heads south where her two best friends Emma and Lou reside in search of answers. As a drunken joke ten years earlier, the three friends made a vow that if the world went to hell they'd survive it together, no matter what. With the pact now a reality, they are forced to face a never ending tidal wave of the dead, tornadoes, earthquakes, and massive storms with hundreds of miles to go. Along with their new dog, Snack, the girls get closer to their destination but no closer to answers as to why their world is filled with such evil. Will their plan of survival keep them alive or will they drown in the sea of the dead?

When people tell you where the Brown house is, you run the other way. Everyone in Brylee's small town knows this, which is why they don't exactly trust the girl who lives there. Brylee is known as a dead talker, but it's more than that now. She has unlocked an evil so terrible she can't seem to keep it from killing everything in its path. She was warned about messing with these ghosts, but she didn't listen. You know, evil comes in all shapes and sizes so finding it and locking it away forever will be a bloody mess.

Reincarnating after countless deaths, the passion of one young couple leads them to each other, time and again. This loop, however, things are different. Their lingering echo through time has caught the attention of an unspeakable darkness. Now, for the sake of mankind, even Heaven is working to keep them apart. Forbidden to love, can they fight the magnetic pull luring them together when the cost is worse than death?