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"I won't tell anyone, Echo. I promise." Noah tucked a curl behind my ear. It had been so long since someone touched me like he did. Why did it have to be Noah Hutchins? His dark brown eyes shifted to my covered arms. "You didn't do that-did you? It was done to you?" No one ever asked that question. They stared. They whispered. They laughed. But they never asked.
So wrong for each other...and yet so right.
No one knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with "freaky" scars on her arms. Even Echo can't remember the whole truth of that horrible night. All she knows is that she wants everything to go back to normal. But when Noah Hutchins, the smoking-hot, girl-using loner in the black leather jacket, explodes into her life with his tough attitude and surprising understanding, Echo's world shifts in ways she could never have imagined. They should have nothing in common. And with the secrets they both keep, being together is pretty much impossible.Yet the crazy attraction between them refuses to go away. And Echo has to ask herself just how far they can push the limits and what she'll risk for the one guy who might teach her how to love again.
Delapan tahun silam, Cassius Redfang menghabisi adiknya demi menyandang gelar warisan sang ayah. Sekarang, dipandu mimpi ganjil istrinya, Cassius menemukan fakta mengejutkan, sang adik telah kembali mewujud di dunia. Dilanda kebingungan, Cassius mulai mencoba menyingkap teka-teki di balik kebangkitan adiknya. Mukjizat para Vanadis-kah? Tipuan? Ataukah.... orang itu justru berhubungan dengan hawa gelap yang menyeruak perlahan di negeri Blackmoon? Segalanya serba gelap...
A summer of friendship, romance, and songs in major chords. . . .
CHARLIE DUSKIN loves music, and she knows she's good at it. But she only sings when she's alone, on the moonlit porch or in the back room at Old Gus's Secondhand Record and CD Store. Charlie's mom and grandmother have both died, and this summer she's visiting her grandpa in the country, surrounded by ghosts and grieving family, and serving burgers to the local kids at the milk bar. She's got her iPod, her guitar, and all her recording equipment, but she wants more: A friend. A dad who notices her. The chance to show Dave Robbie that she's not entirely unspectacular.
ROSE BUTLER lives next door to Charlie's grandfather and spends her days watching cars pass on the freeway and hanging out with her troublemaker boyfriend. She loves Luke but can't wait to leave their small country town. And she's figured out a way: she's won a scholarship to a science school in the city, and now she has to convince her parents to let her go. This is where Charlie comes in. Charlie, who lives in the city, and whom Rose has ignored for years. Charlie, who just might be Rose's ticket out.
Told in alternating voices and filled with music, friendship, and romance, Charlie and Rose's "little wanting song" is about the kind of longing that begins as a heavy ache but ultimately makes us feel hopeful and wonderfully alive.
Ambisi.... Kekuasaan.... Kekuatan....
Ketiganya berpusar bagai badai, terpusat pada satu keluarga: Hailstorm. Bahkan sosok digdaya, Raja Deimos Amurdad, menerjang ke dalam pusaran badai lewat tawarannya yang terlalu menggiurkan untuk ditolak: Kekuatan penakluk segala! Mereka yang menginginkan anugerah itu harus mengatasi tantangan maha dahsyat di tempat maha berbahaya: Reigner, alam kematian.
Semua berlomba mendapatkan kekuatan itu. Jika berhasil, mereka akan mempunyai senjata untuk menumbangkan Sang Raja Tunggal. Jika gagal, kematian menjadi hal yang tak terelakkan. Segala cara untuk mengumpulkan pasukan hebat ditempuh Hailstorm. Bahkan cara kotor. Menyandera keluarga kesatria veteran Lavinia, yang sesungguhnya ia tak ingin kembali mengangkat pedang.
Mungkinkah Lavinia berhasil menyelamatkan keluarganya? Atau... malah menjadi tumbal ambisi keluarga Hailstorm? Ini adalah kisah tentang Sang Badai dan Penunggangnya.
