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Dark Guardian (novel)
''Dark Guardian'' is a paranormal/suspense novel written by American author Christine Feehan. Published in 2002, it is the 9th book in the Dark Series, and focuses on Jaxon Montgomery and Lucian Daratrazanoff. Plot summary Jaxon Montgomery has spent nearly her entire life as the obsession of a sick serial killer. From a young age she was always exceptional and as the daughter of a Navy SEAL she was provided the best training available. However, her father's best friend, Tyler Drake, believed that her father did not care about her enough and killed him in order to take his place as her step-father. After her father's death her mother became a junkie, leaving her to care for her younger brother. She finds it odd that Tyler treats her with so much love and respect yet seems hateful to her family. When Tyler finally snaps he kills her mother and her younger brother and as a highly trained Navy SEAL he avoids all capture. Whenever she is sent to another foster home, Tyler once again sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Feehan
Christine Feehan (born Christine King in Ukiah, California) is an American author of paranormal romance, paranormal military thrillers, and fantasy. She is a #1 ''New York Times'', #1 ''Publishers Weekly'', and International bestselling author of seven series; ''Carpathian'' (aka ''Dark Series''), ''GhostWalker Series'', ''Drake Sisters'', ''Sister of the Heart'' (''Sea Haven'') ''Series'', ''Shadow Riders Series'', ''Leopard Series'' and ''Torpedo Ink Series''. Six of the seven series have made #1 on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list. As of January 2020 she has 80 published novels. The first in her ''Torpedo Ink Series'', ''Judgment Road'', debuted at #1 on the ''New York Times'' bestsellers list. Biography Christine Feehan was born in Ukiah, California. She grew up with three brothers and ten sisters. She spent a lot of time getting in trouble at school for writing instead of doing the things she was supposed to do. Later she forced her ten sisters to read every word ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ennis (artist)
John Ennis (born 1953) is an American painter. Ennis is a portrait painter and former book-cover illustrator; his paintings currently hang in over 100 fine art collections worldwide. He has over a thousand published book cover illustrations to his credit. Background He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and studied painting at the Art Students League of New York under Jack Faragasso and Robert Emil Shulz and privately with Michael Aviano, all former students of Frank J. Reilly. Reilly had studied with renowned Art Students League teacher Frank Vincent Dumond (1865-1951), a student of Benjamin Constant (1845-1902), Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911) and Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888), all painters of the French Academic Tradition. Life and work Establishing a career in the 1980s as a freelance book cover illustrator, John Ennis illustrated for American publishers including Random House and its subsidiaries, Ballantine Books, Bantam Boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Series
This bibliography contains a is a list of works from American author Christine Feehan. The Carpathian Novels This series tells the stories of the Carpathians, an ancient race with near-immortal lifespans that feeds on human blood. However, the Carpathians are nearing extinction due to a scarcity of females to mate with. With their lifemates, male Carpathians live emotion-filled colorful lives. Without them, the males fight the madness that causes them to choose between suicide or the thrill of killing humans by draining their blood, becoming soulless vampires in the process. Learning that special human women can possibly become lifemates, the Carpathians realize there may be hope of saving their species from extinction. Sea Haven Novels These novels take place in (or the vicinity of) the town of Sea Haven. Each book is included in one of the three series forming this collection: the Drake Sisters, the Sisters of the Heart, and Torpedo Ink. The Drake Sisters The first serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romance Novel
A romance novel or romantic novel generally refers to a type of genre fiction novel which places its primary focus on the relationship and Romance (love), romantic love between two people, and usually has an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Precursors include authors of literary fiction, such as Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and Charlotte Brontë. There are many subgenres of the romance novel, including fantasy, gothic fiction, gothic, Contemporary romance, contemporary, historical romance, paranormal fiction, and science fiction. Although women are the main readers of romance novels a growing number of men enjoy them as well. The Romance Writers of America cite 16% of men read romance novels. "Many people today don’t realize that romance is more than a love story. Romance can be a complex plotline with a setting from the past in a remote, faraway place. Instead of focusing on a love story, it idealizes values and principles that seem lost in today’s world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paranormal
Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding. Notable paranormal beliefs include those that pertain to extrasensory perception (for example, telepathy), spiritualism and the pseudosciences of ghost hunting, cryptozoology, and ufology. Proposals regarding the paranormal are different from scientific hypotheses or speculations extrapolated from scientific evidence because scientific ideas are grounded in empirical observations and experimental data gained through the scientific method. In contrast, those who argue for the existence of the paranormal explicitly do not base their arguments on empirical evidence but rather on anecdote, testimony, and suspicion. The standard scientific models give the explanation that what appears to be paranormal phenomena is usually a misinterpretat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy Novel
Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Magic, the supernatural and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds. Fantasy literature may be directed at both children and adults. Fantasy is a subgenre of speculative fiction and is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the absence of scientific or macabre themes, respectively, though these genres overlap. Historically, most works of fantasy were written, however, since the 1960s, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic novels, video games, music and art. Many fantasy novels originally written for children and adolescents also attract an adult audience. Examples include ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', the ''Harry Potter'' series, '' The Chronicles of Narnia'', and '' The Hobbit''. History Beginnings Stories invo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leisure Books
Leisure Books was a mass market paperback publisher specializing in horror and thrillers that operated from 1957 to 2010. In the company's early years, it also published fantasy, science fiction, Westerns, and the Wildlife Treasury card series. Leisure Books offered a book sales club service. Typically two free books were provided as an initial inducement. After that two books were sent on a monthly basis. Readers would have ten days to keep or return. If kept there would be a discount on the purchase price. From around 1982 onward, Leisure Books was an imprint of Dorchester Publishing, shifting the company's focus away from fantasy and science fiction and more towards horror. As such, Leisure published novels and collections by a number of horror's notable authors, including Douglas Clegg, Stacy Dittrich, Ray Garton, J. F. Gonzalez, Brian Keene, Jack Ketchum, Richard Laymon, Deborah LeBlanc, Edward Lee, Ronald Malfi, Graham Masterton, T. V. Olsen, and Sarah Pinb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2002. Events *March 16 – Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrest and jail the poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and dismiss a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem "The Corrupt on Earth", which criticizes the state's Islamic judiciary, accusing some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for personal benefit. *March 31 – '' American Writers: A Journey Through History'' resumes its run on C-SPAN, having been interrupted by the September 11 attacks and their aftermath. *May – The results of a poll of 100 authors conducted in Norway are announced, leading to the Bokklubben World Library beginning publication. * October 16 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina (designed by Snøhetta) is inaugurated in Alexandria, Egypt. *November – Raymond Benson releases his final James Bond novel, based on the film ''Die Another Day'', bringing to a close an uninterrupted series of novels featuring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Legend (novel)
This bibliography contains a is a list of works from American author Christine Feehan. The Carpathian Novels This series tells the stories of the Carpathians, an ancient race with near-immortal lifespans that feeds on human blood. However, the Carpathians are nearing extinction due to a scarcity of females to mate with. With their lifemates, male Carpathians live emotion-filled colorful lives. Without them, the males fight the madness that causes them to choose between suicide or the thrill of killing humans by draining their blood, becoming soulless vampires in the process. Learning that special human women can possibly become lifemates, the Carpathians realize there may be hope of saving their species from extinction. Sea Haven Novels These novels take place in (or the vicinity of) the town of Sea Haven. Each book is included in one of the three series forming this collection: the Drake Sisters, the Sisters of the Heart, and Torpedo Ink. The Drake Sisters The first serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Symphony
Christine Feehan (born Christine King in Ukiah, California) is an American author of paranormal romance, paranormal military thrillers, and fantasy. She is a #1 ''New York Times'', #1 ''Publishers Weekly'', and International bestselling author of seven series; ''Carpathian'' (aka ''Dark Series''), ''GhostWalker Series'', ''Drake Sisters'', ''Sister of the Heart'' (''Sea Haven'') ''Series'', ''Shadow Riders Series'', ''Leopard Series'' and ''Torpedo Ink Series''. Six of the seven series have made #1 on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list. As of January 2020 she has 80 published novels. The first in her ''Torpedo Ink Series'', ''Judgment Road'', debuted at #1 on the ''New York Times'' bestsellers list. Biography Christine Feehan was born in Ukiah, California. She grew up with three brothers and ten sisters. She spent a lot of time getting in trouble at school for writing instead of doing the things she was supposed to do. Later she forced her ten sisters to read every word. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paranormal
Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding. Notable paranormal beliefs include those that pertain to extrasensory perception (for example, telepathy), spiritualism and the pseudosciences of ghost hunting, cryptozoology, and ufology. Proposals regarding the paranormal are different from scientific hypotheses or speculations extrapolated from scientific evidence because scientific ideas are grounded in empirical observations and experimental data gained through the scientific method. In contrast, those who argue for the existence of the paranormal explicitly do not base their arguments on empirical evidence but rather on anecdote, testimony, and suspicion. The standard scientific models give the explanation that what appears to be paranormal phenomena is usually a misinterpretat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lair Of The Lion
''Lair of the Lion'' is a paranormal/romance written by American author Christine Feehan. Unlike most for her other works, this novel is not part of an ongoing series and isn’t set in the present day. ''Lair of the Lion'' is set in Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical .... Plot summary Isabella Vernaducci is a young aristocratic woman desperate to save her imprisoned brother. He has been falsely accused of treason and is slated to be executed within the month. She feels she has one chance to save him, the powerful ''Don'' DeMarco. The ''Don'' is respected and feared throughout the land. Many say he is gifted with strange powers, that all, even the beasts obey him. So she makes the arduous journey to his isolated ''palazzo''. Once she is granted an audience with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
