Desert Stories

With a single, decisive blow, Cassandra - Shadow of Sammos, immortal warrior, and general of the Thiria - ended the war. The Emperor is dead and the Empire has fallen. Now that she is faced with the weight of rebuilding the world, Cass is blindsided by the choices of people she's never met. A Council she's never heard of demands she deliver the Emperor's head to an enemy general across the vast desert nation of Desheret. With her is a wide array of travelers from every nation, including old friends and old enemies. Cass must learn how to solve problems without her strength, violence, or her army, and navigate a world that doesn't yet know the Emperor is dead.

In the vast, silent stretches of desert where the horizon blurs into heat and dust, a small town stands forgotten by the world-and unknowingly, directly in the path of something extraordinary. After surviving captivity aboard a military space vessel, a small alien girl crashes into the desert outskirts, alone, injured, and far from anything familiar. Once a test subject, stripped of her voice and identity, she carries the scars of experimentation and the weight of a universe that hunted her for what she was rather than who she could be. She is found by the people of the town-ordinary humans, beastkin and robots with no reason to trust the unknown, yet enough compassion to offer shelter instead of fear. Within their weathered homes and streets, she begins to heal. Slowly, cautiously, she learns what it means to be safe, to be fed without conditions, to sleep without restraints. Among them is a man who sees her not as a specimen or a mystery, but as a person. Their bond forms in small, fragile moments-shared silences, tentative gestures, unspoken understanding. Where words fail, presence speaks. Curiosity turns into comfort. Comfort into something deeper, something neither of them expected. As she adjusts to life on this planet, remnants of her past linger in the shadows. The desert that hides her also leaves her exposed, and the truth of who she is cannot remain buried forever. When the echoes of her captivity begin to surface, the town-and the man who has grown to care for her-will be forced to decide how far they are willing to go to protect someone the universe has already tried to break. This is a story of survival, quiet love, and the fragile hope found when two worlds collide in the most unlikely place.

Content note: sci-fi violence, explosions, desert peril. The Doctor never meant to land on Arrakis. One wrong pull in the vortex drops the TARDIS onto a world of endless sand, spice-filled air, and a fragile balance held together by belief and blood. It's the early reign of Emperor Paul Atreides, a time when destiny is already pressing hard on the planet-and when even the smallest disturbance can echo across history. Unfortunately, the Doctor isn't the only Time Lord listening. The Master is here too. Drawn by something buried deep beneath the dunes, something ancient and calling through the spice, the Master sees Arrakis not as a world to protect, but as a door waiting to be opened. The Doctor knows better. Whatever sleeps under the sand was hidden for a reason-and opening it could tear far more than the desert apart. With his sonic unreliable, the desert itself turning hostile, and the Master pushing every boundary just to see what breaks, the Doctor must walk carefully between interference and catastrophe. Because on Arrakis, even sound can summon monsters, and light can become a weapon. Time doesn't care about heroes. And on a world where prophecy rules, it waits for no man.

Ehab is a 17-year-old boy from Sabha who tries to find his lost sister.

"Love... the only force that brought him to his knees when the world could not." **"He is cruel and merciless. His absence was enough to make men kneel. His silence was enough to keep fear alive. He was the king of darkness- a name spoken with trembling mouths and lowered eyes. Yet there existed one word he despised more than rebellion, more than betrayal, more than blood... love."** " the one word capable of being both his ruin... and his resurrection."

Set in a Post-apocalyptic society, Sage is the sole adult survivor of her family. Navigating dangerous human settlements and preteen angst is hard enough to deal with. But Creatures that prowl the night devouring settlements and colonizing cities send the human population into a tailspinning extinction. Sage will do what she needs to make sure her family survive, its all she has. Series started: June 2020 Sub genre: scifi-horror romance Highest rank to date #1 in alieninvasion #10 in aliens #3 in postapocalypse #2 in surviving #6 in desert #11 in space #16 in future

ZAYYAD Synopsis: The companions of the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him shared the deen of Allah all over the world. Their followers also followed in their footsteps. Sageer Al'amin brought Islam to a place in the vast Arabian desert peninsula. The citizens, being engrossed in deep polytheism and evil monarchy rejected the message of Allah. Al'amin was treated badly but luckily with the light of Islam, some people converted to Muslims and surrounded him with aid. The deen of Allah spread slowly which made the king angry. They started mistreating the Muslims which led to conflicts and small-scale wars. In the process, Al'amin was killed. The Muslims fought their way out and in a few years established their cities, despite the Kafir's interference. Their power grew as more Muslims were born. The peninsula was divided into three; the kafir empire: Shams, the Muslim Emirates: Noor Al-Islam, and the Gold Empire. After his mother was abandoned by his father because she chose to convert to Islam, Zayyad grew up with his mother in Amatran. The Shams empire was trying its best to eradicate the Muslim cities, so the Muslims built up their armies too. Being a hot-blooded youth, who was determined to join the jihad and also find his father, Zayyad joined the recruitment of the Noor army. He found himself in a training ground where they were taught how to fight and more about their deen. Zayyad trained and joined the war, being entangled with many known and unknown vices. Their aim; make the deen of Allah prosper.

You will be king... Those are the words, Dinraal has heard since he was a child. When the Hashiri Empire took him away from his sister, to train up as the future of the empire. Ziphora grew up learning to be the end of the empire. Ziphora and Dinraal are completely different from one another and never should have crossed paths. But both have a secret and identity the other does not know. And fate would have that they would be either the savior or end of the great Hashiri Empire.

කාන්තාර කුසුමකට බැඳුණු කඳුකර කුසුමක්..... අවසානයක් නොදැන ආරම්භය පමණක් අකුරු කරන කතාවක්... අද ශොප් එකට මල් ගන්න ඇරබික් කෙල්ලෙක් ආවා... එයා සතියකට සැරයක් අනිවාරෙන්ම ශොප් එකට එනවාලු. මේ මම එයාව දැක්ක පලවෙනි පාර. මොකද මම හැමවෙලාවෙම මේ බ්රාන්ච් එකේ නෑ. මේ ඩුබායි බ්රාන්ච් එක ගොඩක් වෙලාවට මම ඉන්නේ ශාර්ජහ් බ්රාන්ච් එකේ. අද මම එයාගේ bouquet එක හදලා දුන්නා. ඒක හදනකන්ම එයා මාත් එක්ක කියව කියව හිටියා. එයා හරිම ලස්සනයි හැබැයි කොල්ලෙක් වගේ. ලස්සනට වඩා එයා හැන්ඩ්සම් කියන්න පුලුවන්. හැන්ඩ්සම් කෙල්ලෙක් engfata feyata පස්සෙ මම දැක්ක හැන්ඩ්සම් කෙල්ල එයා.... කාන්තාර කුසුමක් ඇවිත් මල් කෙල්ලෙක්ගේ හිත අරන් ගියා.🥺🙏💔

From the sands of the Mojave, Valarie Woodlin of Mojave Rose High School has been a passionate fan of the sport of tankery. For so long, she could only be a fan. No longer. Before the hot sun would set, she went from passionate fan to dedicated participant as her school revives its old tankery team. Follow her alongside her friends as they embark on the journey of a lifetime.

The Deserterlands chronicles the adventures of a 14 year old girl who travels her desert-covered-planet with her father, learning to become a master explosion-defuser under his unorthodox teaching methods. The longer she spends with him, the more apparent it becomes that she isn't just learning about the three elemental explosions, but so much more-- who her father was before she met him, the story of his family, and why he now spent all his days deactivating life-threatening bombs buried just beneath the desert sands.

The Terran Empire is in a state of chaos after the successful sack by the Valdi armada. As the Terran fleets struggle to reorganize, First Marshal Scott Pearson led the charge to cut into the enemy flank and stem the tide of reinforcements. With Orion help, he was succeeding, until Captain Traci Ganner interfered--again. But Traci must bring the Terran marshal and the chief Orion councilor together to confront a new Terran threat from the future. Facing daunting new technology, Traci finds herself in the clutches of a new Terran enemy and if they force the location of the rift from her, both the Terrans and Orions will be lost. In the final book of the Traci Ganner trilogy, Traci and her officers must endure their most difficult trials yet that leads Traci to a mystical temple that holds the keys to her very survival.

All kinds of poems arranged into seven themes.

After the state declared his father as legally dead, young Elias went back to Varrin estate to find out what his father had been hiding in his office. What awaited him did not hesitate. Now, he has to endure immense heat of place called Aridas, numerous groups of hunters just to survive. Only if that were his only worries.

[Book 1 FINISHED] Sixteen-year-old Alyssa Brooks is a high-school outcast who doesn't realize that she's living in a world where magic is very real and a dire threat to anyone not possessing the power to harness it. But everything changes when Alyssa moves into Magnorium, a school for strange supernaturals called Elementals. As Alyssa adjusts to this new life, she learns of the Society, a powerful group of Elementals dedicated to cleansing the earth of its mortal population. Alyssa soon discovers her own truth and power and becomes something greater than she could have imagined - or the Society could have feared. As the only ones brave enough to stop the Society, Alyssa and her three friends set off on a journey, with the future of humanity hanging in the balance. Will Alyssa be strong enough to carry the burden of the world, or will she break under the strain?

When Bo's sheep go missing, she and the others go on a mission to save them.

this is a book where you come to know the life of a pigeon. There wil be 7 chapters. the seven days of the week. ~Intoduction~ hi, Im john the pigeon Im 2 years old and i have my bestfriend willy. Willy is like a brother to me and he is also 2. my hobbys are: eating food, picking peoples eyes out and stealing food.

The jackal-like people of ein

A young rebel has been sentenced to death by exposure -- and he's ready for it. Right? This is a story of a man grappling with his convictions, his resolve, and his own mortality.

In a kingdom of endless sand, where dunes stretch further than the eyes can see, Princess Laila will do anything to save her people, even embark on a perilous quest. An army of witches, armed with their haunting melodies that fuel their dark magic, threatens to destroy her land and her people. With the help of her companions, she must face treacherous creatures and ancient secrets to find the hidden stone that will silence the witches' songs. But along the course of the journey, Laila realizes that the greatest danger isn't the witches, but the song that is slowly growing within herself.