crystal war

Richard Franklin has left his Midwestern roots behind to live on the coast of Maine with his family. But in the autumn of the year 2000, he must return to his Illinois birthplace on a sorrowful journey. His wife Michelle has been killed in New England by a hit-and-run driver who is never found, so back home he comes with her cremated remains, to fulfill a final wish and on her birthday scatter her ashes in the park along the river in Blackwater Valley—simply Blackwater Val to locals—the small town where they both grew up and fell in love. With him he brings his six-year-old daughter Katie who still grieves for her lost mother: Katie, who can sometimes guess who’s going to be on the phone before it rings. Who can stop all the clocks in the house, and break up clouds in the sky with her mind, and heal sicknesses, and who sometimes sees things that aren’t there...people who are no longer alive. All gifts she inherited from her mother. Only something isn’t quite right in the Val. Sinkholes are opening up, revealing the plague pits the sleepy hamlet was built over in the 1830s, when malaria and cholera outbreaks ran riot. Mysterious bird and fish die-offs begin to occur, and Katie can see ghosts of the dead gathering all around. But what she can’t see is the charred, centuries-old malevolence which has been waiting for her, and wants her for its very own. Or the pale Sallow Man who haunts the town’s nighttime streets...or the river witch—another Blackwater Val, of sorts—each of whom will be drawn one by one into the nightmarish bloodletting about to take place. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

In the quiet of the forest, the darkest fears are born. The people of Dunballan, harbour a dark secret. A secret more terrible than the Beast that stalks the dense forests of Dunballan. A secret that holds David McCavendish, last in a long line of Lairds, in its unbreakable grip. It’s down to Sally, David’s lover, to free David from the sinister clutches of the Beast. But, with the whole town against her, she must ally herself with an ancient woodland force and trace Dunballan’s secret back to its bitter origins. Those origins lie within the McCavendish family history, and a blasphemous heresy that stretches back to the beginning of time. Some truths are too terrible to face, and the darkest of these lie waiting for Sally, in the Quiet Places. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

Maria Drew is a young girl who got admitted to a famous university she dreamed about all her life. It was a way to get into a beautiful life. She belongs to a poor family. Her father is sick. All she wanted is to find a job and look after her family. Mike Anderson is a werewolf and a future alpha. Maria had a bad encounter with Mike which led him to hate her. Fate is that Mike is the son of one of the owners of the campus. He is also her classmate. He started bullying her whenever he got the chance. Mike became the bad boy of her life. She is the girl who he hated all his life. But moon goddess made her his mate. What happens when his finds out that the girl he hated became his mate?

Hinaan dan cacian sudah biasa Sofia dengar dari mulut mertua dan ipar-iparnya. Bahkan hinaan itu datang dari mulut suaminya sendiri kala Sofia selalu berpenampilan lusuh. Hal tragis kemudian terjadi pada hidup Sofia kala ia kehilangan buah hati yang ia kandung. Bak terjatuh lalu tertimpa tangga, setelah kematian sang anak, Sofia pun diceraikan oleh sang suami. Chaeril atau Eril, suami Sofia bermain gila di belakang Sofia dengan mantan kekasihnya. Rongrongan dari ibu dan saudara-saudaranya pun turut menjadi andil Eril menceraikan Sofia. Sang ibunda berkata jika Sofia tak sepadan dengan mereka karena Sofia hanyalah seorang anak petani miskin. Dalam keterpurukannya, Sofia mampu bangkit karena semangat dari kedua orang tua dan dari Dokter Reynard, mantan kekasih yang muncul kembali ke dalam hidupnya. Namun apa jadinya jika Eril dan keluarga tahu jika selama ini Sofia adalah cucu dari seorang konglomerat dan di masa depan Sofia merupakan seorang calon pewaris? Apakah mereka menyesal karena sudah membuang sebuah berlian dan menukarnya dengan batu kerikil seperti mantan kekasih Eril? Lalu, apakah cinta Sofia akan bersemu kembali bersama mantan kekasih yang selama ini belum move on darinya?

As a child, Elaina Mason lost her parents to the darkness. Orphaned, the girl was taken in by the brethren, raised to be one of their elite. Now at twenty-two, Elaina is no longer that same, weak child who could only watch as everything she loved went up in flame and ash. She comes forth with the help of her comrades to protect what she now holds dear and wreaks vengeance and havoc against the dark days ahead.

England, 1876. Twenty-year-old Maraina Blackwood has always struggled to adhere to the restrictive standards of Victorian society, denying the courage and desire that burn within her soul. But after a terrifying supernatural encounter, Maraina's instincts compel her to action. Maraina soon discovers a plot to unleash a new world—one of demonic aristocrats, bloody rituals, and nightmarish monsters. Putting her upbringing aside, Maraina vows to fight the dark forces assuming control of England. But as her world transforms, Maraina finds that she too must transform...and what she becomes will bring out all that she once buried. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

Sarah Killian is not your average thirty-year-old single woman. Foul-mouthed, mean-spirited, and a text-book-case loner. Also, she is a Professional Serial Killer. But a wrench is thrown into the clockwork of Sarah's comfortable lifestyle when, on her latest assignment, she is forced to take on an apprentice, Bethany—a bubbly, perky, blonde with a severe case of verbal-vomit. In short, Bethany is everything Sarah is not. Will Sarah be able to adjust and work with her new apprentice, or will she break her contract with T.H.E.M. and murder the buxom bimbo? ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

There are just boundaries we shouldn't cross kaya dapat ay alam natin kung hanggang saan lang tayo sa buhay ng isang tao. When Almirah was paid to be his bedwarmer, alam niyang hanggang doon lang siya. She could only offer her body for the money that she needed —nothing more and nothing less. Kaya lang, nasira ang magandang plano niya sa buhay nang kaniyang nalaman na siya ay nagdadalang-tao. Dahil sa takot sa sasabihin ng iba, lalo na ng kaniyang mga magulang ay itinago niya iyon sa lahat, maging kay Lazarus na ama ng kaniyang dinadala. He had no idea that she was pregnant when she left until a baby was found of the gate of his mansion with a letter telling him that the baby was his child. He raised the baby on his own, but questions remained unanswered. Nasaan nga ba si Almirah? What happened to her over the past years?

There are monsters in this world. And they used to be us. Now it's time to euthanize to survive in a hospice where Emily, a woman haunted by her past, only wants to do her job and be the best mother possible. Post-infection Chicago. Christmas. Inside The Hospice, Emily and her fellow nurses do their rounds. Here, men and women live out their final days in comfort, segregated from society, and are then humanely terminated before fate turns them into marrow-craving monsters known as ‘Smilers.’ Outside these imposing walls, rabid protesters swarm with signs, caught up in the heat of their hatred. Emily, a woman haunted by her past, only wants to do her job and be the best mother possible. But in a world where mortality means nothing, where guns are drawn in fear and nobody seems safe anymore – at what cost will this pursuit come? And through it all, the soon to be dead remain silent, ever smiling. Such is their curse. It won't be long before that snow-speckled ground will be salted by blood. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

When King Alaric of Vrasambail died, Prince Archer, the heir to the throne, finds himself facing the prospect of ruling the Kingdom before he was ready to do so. Despite having been prepared by his father for kinghood since the day was he born, he found himself wanting one last adventure before settling in ruling Vrasambail for as long as he shall live. Leaving behind his trusted advisors to rule in his stead, and his long-waiting betrothed, he set off for the quest of a lifetime in the Forest of Mysteries. In the numinous forest, he met Aurora, a feisty, independent lady; different from the ladies in the court; as lovely as she was brave. He fell madly in love with her instantly. He was ready to end his prior betrothal and marry her, but in the midst of war against their rival kingdom, marrying a commoner with questionable lineage could mean losing the love and support of the noble houses and the kingdom: a risk his advisors are not willing to take. Archer must choose between love and duty; between happiness and responsibility. Will love prevail amidst betrayals, long-hidden secrets, and pasts long buried?