Dangerous Playthings Page 5
NO FORWARDING ADDRESS
Della Van Hise
When Terrans came to sail dark seas,
And see what stars might be...
Heaven moved with no forwarding address,
And left this void to me.
(Children's song from Lazali)
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A literary science fiction novel told in the voice of an empath, No Forwarding Address explores the lures and the dangers of love, the tragedies and triumphs stirring in the human heart.
When Crystal and Raine first meet, it is 50 years after The Great War on Earth. They are hesitant to trust, afraid to love. But even if they are able to overcome these seemingly insurmountable obstacles, is even love enough?
When a man has the stars in his eyes, legend says he must serve them above all others.
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I knew then that it wasn't love and hate who were mirror twins. The final irony was that grief would always turn out to be the paradoxical antithesis and simultaneous manifestation of whatever it is that humans call love.
Crystal remained silent and walked a few steps away from Raine – further down the shoreline, until she stood under the wing of one fallen Phantom. She thought of the ship she had seen from the balcony of our home, and though it had long since disappeared over the dark and treacherous abyss of the ocean, its image lingered clearly in her thoughts. On that ship was a man, she thought. A terribly lonely man who made no great difference to the flow of time or the memory of the galaxy. A man who, like Raine, was compelled to keep moving and look only ahead and never behind. A man who could not afford the luxury of waving goodbye to friends on shore.
At last, she turned toward her beloved and watched him watching the darkness. He stood only a few feet away, yet the images in my mind said he might as well have been a million light years off in the void. He was lost to her in that instant out-of-time, just as lost and impossible to find as the light from that ship which had vanished over the horizon...
COYOTE
Della Van Hise
A Novel of Love, Honor
and Personal Sacrifice...
When River Willows is accused of a murder she didn't commit, her life takes a turn toward the sanctuary of a world existing at right-angles to our own. Combining the mysticism of martial arts and the romantic conflict of a young woman torn between two powerful men, COYOTE takes the reader on an epic journey of dangerous secrets, military cover-ups, and the infinite heart of the peaceful warrior.
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"So who's Coyote?" I asked, trying to ignore the effect he was having on me. "You?"
Steale laughed easily, though it did little to hide the torment behind that mask of indifference he wore so well.
"Coyote's a scavenger, Jack of all trades. The Native Americans call him the trickster - the one who brought chaos down on the world." He shrugged as if altogether unconcerned. "Original sin."
"Is that what you are?" I asked, keeping it light despite the growing knot my stomach. "Original sin?"
He kept his profile to me, eyes straight ahead as he drove. "Sure you want to know?"
I couldn't help wondering if I had cornered the coyote, or if the clever trickster had cornered me.
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By the author of KILLING TIME – without a doubt the most controversial STAR TREK novel ever published!