The HungerSimon and Schuster, 05.10.2001 - 384 Seiten Eternal youth is a wonderful thing for the few who have it, but for Miriam Blaylock, it is a curse -- an existence marred by death and sorrow. Because for the everlasting Miriam, everyone she loves withers and dies. Now, haunted by signs of her adoring husband's imminent demise, Miriam sets out in serach of a new partner, one who can quench her thirst for love and withstand the test of time. She finds it in the beautiful Sarah Roberts, a brilliant young scientist who may hold the secret to immortality. But one thing stands between the intoxicating Miriam Blaylock and the object of her desire: Dr. Tom Haver...and he's about to realize that love and death to hand in hand. |
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... street. John put his watch back in his pocket and stepped softly from his place of concealment in the shrubs. He paused a moment in the cool, private air of the empty street. His target lived in the middle of the block. John's well ...
... street. John put his watch back in his pocket and stepped softly from his place of concealment in the shrubs. He paused a moment in the cool, private air of the empty street. His target lived in the middle of the block. John's well ...
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... street light at the end of the block provided illumination. That was as planned. John broke into a trot, passing the target house and pausing at the far end of the grounds. No light appeared from any angle. He went up the driveway. To ...
... street light at the end of the block provided illumination. That was as planned. John broke into a trot, passing the target house and pausing at the far end of the grounds. No light appeared from any angle. He went up the driveway. To ...
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... street, Miriam was always on schedule, so John hurried out the way he had come, pausing only to lock the cellar door behind him with his piano wire. He moved swiftly down the driveway and waited in a flowering dogwood. His body tingled ...
... street, Miriam was always on schedule, so John hurried out the way he had come, pausing only to lock the cellar door behind him with his piano wire. He moved swiftly down the driveway and waited in a flowering dogwood. His body tingled ...
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... street whore. To see it in such an extraordinary and obviously refined beauty made him shake with excitement. His eyes teared, involuntarily he extended his hands. She seemed about to speak but only ran her tongue along the edges of her ...
... street whore. To see it in such an extraordinary and obviously refined beauty made him shake with excitement. His eyes teared, involuntarily he extended his hands. She seemed about to speak but only ran her tongue along the edges of her ...
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... streets behind the Circus. Soon the Aemilian Bridge appeared and she crossed it into the stillness of the Quadrata.At this time of year the suburb was quiet, its inhabitants away at Capua or Pompeii for the summer. At last she arrived ...
... streets behind the Circus. Soon the Aemilian Bridge appeared and she crossed it into the stillness of the Quadrata.At this time of year the suburb was quiet, its inhabitants away at Capua or Pompeii for the summer. At last she arrived ...
Inhalt
Chapter 8 | 210 |
Chapter 9 | 235 |
Chapter 10 | 260 |
Chapter 11 | 288 |
Chapter 12 | 312 |
EPILOGUE | 356 |
The Last Vampire | 359 |
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Seite 139 - O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear ; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low : Trip no further, pretty sweeting ; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love ? 'tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter ; What's to come is still unsure : In delay there lies no plenty ; Then come...
Seite 149 - Let each man bow the head in sign of acquiescence And now, if you will be true to this, your oath, may prosperity and good repute be ever yours; the opposite, if you shall prove yourselves forsworn.
Seite 330 - Call a cop, lady. You nearly got yourself run over. Now get outa here." "Somebody's about to die. I'ma doctor." The driver rolled his eyes. "OK," he said, "where to?" mask some of the smells within the cab. She listened as the driver reassured his passenger that all was well, the detour wouldn't take long. Many drivers would have refused to budge, she knew that. But she had gotten lucky. This guy had a heart. As soon as the house appeared Sarah leaped from the cab, raced up the steps and began hammering...
Seite 336 - He could see from here the brown scuff marks his shoes had left on the wall. languid, but he had the impression that she was far from it. The eyes hardly blinked. A fly came in the window, buzzing energetically. Tom watched it spiral up to the ceiling. For a moment he was stunned. He had not noticed that the ceiling was magnificently painted to resemble a blue, cloudflecked sky. Clouds billowed and larks soared in that magical, ineffably romantic air. The fly, crawling across the painting birds and...
Seite 335 - Miriam seemed aware of his feelings, as if the act downstairs had been little more than a formality. "Sarah," she said, "Please let me in. I have a surprise for you." She turned to Tom. "I've got a key, but I hate to open a door somebody else has locked.
Seite 163 - Sarah had despaired of ever really being loved. She wanted Tom, enjoyed him sexually, but the old hollowness asserted itself, the reality once again emerging. Miriam could work in the forest of Sarah's emotions. She knew well her role in this age: the bringer of truth.
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The Blood is the Life: Vampires in Literature Leonard G. Heldreth,Mary Pharr Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |