Dark One

From #1 New York Times Bestselling, Hugo Award-winning author, BrandonSanderson (The Mistborn Trilogy, The Stormlight Archive series), along withNathan Gooden, Jackson Lanzing, and Collin Kelly, comes Dark One, the firstbook in a series of original graphic novels, from Vault Comics. Someworlds are made to be broken. Paul Tanasin is a young man haunted byvisions of a dark and fantastic world?visions he initially believes arehallucinations. But when he discovers they are prophecies from Mirandus, a worldin which he's destined to become a fearsome destroyer, he'll have toembrace the fear, rise up as the Dark One, and shatter everything. Dark Oneexamines the dual roles we often take on in life--the ability to be asavior as well as a destroyer.

To touch a Dark One is death. To talk to an immortal is suicide. Yet, I've been marked by both. A Vampire. And the King of the immortals. My life is no longer my own. And now I know the truth, my life was never mine to begin with. It was theirs. It's always been theirs.

Claire Becker was approaching her twenty-eighth birthday on the night she was killed. Her tragic passing, somewhat poignantly, came hours after finding the truth about what really happened to her family, all those years ago. The precise events of Christmas Day, 1997, would remain a mystery to Claire until the last hours of her life. All those involved that night have a story to tell, and Claire is dead set on uncovering the truth. After seeing her cousin’s face in the paper, Claire sets out on a journey of self-discovery back to her native Scotland. Along the way, she meets the mysterious stranger, Kieran, who takes an unlikely interest in helping her. The man’s name, Claire later discovers, is Gaelic for ‘Little Dark One’. While this man with the mysterious past helps Claire find out her own buried truths, disturbing details involving his own past come to light and his shadowy motives start to become clear. As it happens, Kieran also has a vested interest in the events of that Christmas and maybe he’s not as innocent in all this as he at first appears – he is after all the Little Dark One…

THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR 6-PART HBO® DOCUMENTARY SERIES #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post | Maureen Corrigan, NPR | Paste | Seattle Times | Entertainment Weekly | Esquire | Slate | Buzzfeed | Jezebel | Philadelphia Inquirer | Publishers Weekly | Kirkus Reviews | Library Journal | Bustle Winner of the Goodreads Choice Awards for Nonfiction | Anthony Award Winner | SCIBA Book Award Winner | Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime | Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case—which was solved in April 2018. The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case—which was solved in April 2018. Introduction by Gillian Flynn • Afterword by Patton Oswalt “A brilliant genre-buster.... Propulsive, can’t-stop-now reading.” —Stephen King For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true crime journalist who created the popular website TrueCrimeDiary.com, was determined to find the violent psychopath she called "the Golden State Killer." Michelle pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark—the masterpiece McNamara was writing at the time of her sudden death—offers an atmospheric snapshot of a moment in American history and a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the wreckage he left behind. It is also a portrait of a woman’s obsession and her unflagging pursuit of the truth. Utterly original and compelling, it has been hailed as a modern true crime classic—one which fulfilled Michelle's dream: helping unmask the Golden State Killer.

The Kingdom of Aelethia has been quiet for five hundred years, but the Dark One is rising from out of the depths. All of Aelethia will perish unless the Chosen One comes forward to save them. Unfortunately, the Chosen One doesn't know her destiny in the world; she only knows she is odd and confused about where her destiny lies. She wants to find love, but the men in her life that actually love her, she cannot have, and the only one that wants her is as evil as they come. The elves know of her destiny and must tell her and train her in time in order to fulfill the prophecy that has been laid out before her. Can she become the person they have waited for? Can she, in time, destroy the evil that is threatening to overtake her kingdom? With friends to guide her and a man to whom she truly loves beside her, she may be able to save Aelethia from doom.

The outcasts; the hunted of all the brighter worlds, crowded onto Yaroto. But even here was there salvation for Ransome, the jinx-scarred acolyte, when tonight was the night of Bani-tai ... the night of expiation by the photo-memoried priests of dark Darion?

Mara had some misfortunes in life. However, she never expected to be afflicted with a curse, where every death brings her back as an undead creature. Entering a world she has no memory of, Mara will be pulled along on a series of events to face the unavoidable and encounter monsters she never knew existed. While searching for her lost memories and a way to lift her curse, Mara learns about an omen of the world’s end. A prophecy looms over the land of Ardana, foretelling the return of a great and terrible beast. And one by one, the seven seals that kept the Dark One imprisoned shall fail.

The land of Ardana avoids destruction, thanks to the heroic efforts of Mara Ashwood and her friends. For the first time in thousands of years, her home is now free from the tyranny of a false goddess. A referendum has been cast, sealing the Faith of Kallikratés’ fate. As a new year dawns, the last undying continues her search on lifting her curse. Her hope now lies in Ardana’s alliance with Thoron, which has faced over a millennium of isolation. However, Kallikratés refuses to go down without a fight. Many followers remain, seeking to make life difficult for the huntress while clinging onto whatever power they have left. An unlikely foe has risen to challenge Mara with the potential to revitalize the crumbling theocratic order. But she will not face this new threat alone. Friends, both old and new, shall help the last undying as her actions draw the attention of whole nations.