The Goddess A Demon

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The Goddess: A Demon (1900) is a novel by Richard Marsh. It was originally serialized in Manchester Weekly Times and Salford Weekly News in twelve installments. It was one of eight books Marsh published in as many months. The Goddess: a Demon followed Marsh's smash The Beetle. Although it was not as successful as The Beetle, but is one of Marsh's more recognized publications. The novel is a first person account by John Ferguson of his friend Edwin Lawrence's brutal murder, the beautiful woman who dropped through his window on the same night and the subsequent quest to solve the murder. Along the way Ferguson encounters threats he never expected and supernatural aspects he never imagined.

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In Goa, India, the drug cartels and the police are at each other 's throats. But this fight is just a symptom of a bigger sickness, of an evil that not only intends to disrupt the peace in Goa, but to rule over all mankind. Thrust into this conflict is Pragya Parashar - Hindi comic book writer and artist. All Pragya wants is to return Indian Comics to its golden age - the nineties. And she might just succeed in doing this, in spite of the forces of evil that she's about to face off. But will she survive an even bigger threat - the last Hindi comic book publisher going out of business?

Spice trader Cinnamon’s quiet life is turned upside down when she ends up on a quest with a fiery demon, in this irreverently quirky rom-com fantasy that is sweet, steamy, and funny as hell. All she wanted to do was live her life in peace—maybe get a cat, expand the family spice farm. Really, anything that didn’t involve going on an adventure where an orc might rip her face off. But they say the goddess has favorites, and if so, Cin is clearly not one of them. After Cin saves the demon Fallon in a wine-drunk stupor, Fallon reveals that all he really wants to do is kill an evil witch enslaving his people. And who can blame him? But now he’s dragging Cinnamon along for the ride whether she likes it or not. On the bright side, at least he keeps burning off his shirt.…