Ergebnis für "Cody" in Zeitgenössische Fantasy

"Happily Ever After" wasn't supposed to come with a do-over option. But when my husband of twenty years packs up and heads for greener pastures and my son leaves for college, that's exactly what my life becomes. Do-over. This time, though, I plan to do things differently. Age is just a number, after all, and at forty I'm ready to carve my own path. Eager for a fresh start, I make a somewhat unorthodox decision and move to a tiny town in the Sierra foothills. I'll be taking care of a centuries old house that called to me when I was a kid.

Teenager Staci's father has just remarried, and now she finds herself being shunted aside by her new stepmother. Shunted all the way to the run-down and dying Maine town of Silence, in fact, and the custody of her alcoholic mother. It gets worse. Silence seems to be stuck in the proverbial stone age. There's no cell phone service except at the very top of a bluff outside of town, no internet except dialup, and not one familiar franchise or business.

The Germanic barbarians that rose against the might of the Roman Empire would not be tolerated. Their betrayal would be dealt with. Chonstitus Eralius Chlorus, the mighty Emperor of Rome, dispatches the left hand of Christ, Dras Vladislas Dragulia, upon the Germanic tribes of the mighty Rhine River. Their capital of Cologne was to be burned; their women, children, and men were to be sold as slaves, and their elderly were to be executed for crimes against the Empire. There would be no forgiveness.