The Chameleon's Shadow

Author: Minette Walters
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0230225950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 548

Book Description
A compelling look into damaged minds, The Chameleon's Shadow is a psychological thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Crippled by migraines, and suspicious of his psychiatrist, he begins to display sporadic bouts of aggression, particularly against women, especially his ex-fiancee who seems unable to accept that the relationship is over. After his injuries prevent his return to the army, he cuts all ties with his former life and moves to London. Alone and unmonitored, he sinks into a private world of guilt and paranoid distrust . . . until a customer annoys him in a Bermondsey pub and he attracts the attention of local police investigating three murders which appear to have been motivated by extreme rage . . . Under suspicion, Acland is forced to confront the real issues behind his isolation. How much control does he have over the dark side of his personality? Do his migraines contribute to his rages? Has he always been the duplicitous chameleon that his ex-fiancee claims? And why – if he hates women – does he look to a woman for help?

The Chameleon's Shadow

Author: Minette Walters
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307268780
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
From the author of The Devil's Feather comes a haunting psychological thriller about a scarred Iraq war veteran whose physical trauma may reflect the inner turmoil of a killer.Somewhere in the endless, deadly desert between Basra and Baghdad, Lieutenant Charles Acland's convoy was attacked. Recovering in the hospital, Charles is crippled by migraines and suspicious of his doctors. He grows uncharacteristically aggressive, particularly against women. Rejecting cosmetic surgery, he moves to London. There he sinks into a quagmire of guilt and paranoia—until an outburst of irrational, vicious anger brings him to the attention of the local police, who are investigating three recent murders. Now under suspicion, Charles is forced to confront his issues before it's too late, but the shadowy forces working against him—or in him—could be more than he can overcome.

Chameleon's Shadow

Author: Tami Dee
Publisher: Desert Breeze Publishing In
ISBN: 1612521789
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295

Book Description

Chosen at Nightfall

Author: C. C. Hunter
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250012899
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
Struggling to come to terms with the separation from her loved ones and her chameleon abilities, Kylie returns to the camp where it all began and must choose between the two young men who love her.

The Biology of Chameleons

Author: Krystal A. Tolley
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520276051
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
They change color depending on their mood. They possess uniquely adapted hands and feet distinct from other tetrapods. They feature independently movable eyes. This comprehensive volume delves into these fascinating details and thorough research about one of the most charismatic families of reptilesÑChameleonidae. Written for professional herpetologists, scholars, researchers, and students, this book takes readers on a voyage across time to discover everything that is known about chameleon biology: anatomy, physiology, adaptations, ecology, behavior, biogeography, phylogeny, classification, and conservation. A description of the natural history of chameleons is given, along with the fossil record and typical characteristics of each genus. The state of chameleons in the modern world is also depicted, complete with new information on the most serious threats to these remarkable reptiles.

Shadowspell Academy

Author: Shannon Mayer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
You Don't Choose The Academy. The Academy Chooses You. "This book is Harry Potter meets the Hunger Games in a bold twist on a classic magical young adult adventure." Jaymin Eve, Bestselling Author of Supernatural Academy I've made it through the Culling Trials, the test that proved my mettle against every possible challenge. I assumed that meant things would settle down and I'd start truly learning. No more danger. No more death threats. No more wondering who was out to get me. Apparently, that was not to be. I am what this supernatural world calls a Chameleon--a rarity even amongst all these monsters. And rare things are coveted and feared by the most powerful of all--The House Of Wonder. It's a good thing I have my crew at my back, because this Academy? It's about to get seriously ugly. Which means this farm girl is ready to play by only one set of rules. Her own. Shadowspell Academy novels offer delicious cliffhangers that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final book - Shadowspell Academy: Year of the Chameleon (Book 6)

The Chameleon's Shadow

Author: Minette Walters
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307277089
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Seger

Author: Carol Lynne
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN: 1781848084
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94

Book Description
Finding answers before he falls in love is imperative. When Shadow, the mysterious shifter from Alrik, arrives at the clinic so weak he can't speak, the Chameleons gather to nurse the shifter back to health. Blood tests reveal more questions than answers. Who is Shadow? What is Shadow? One Chameleon doesn't care that his boss is distrustful of the shifter. For years, Seger has longed for reciprocated love, and he isn't about to dismiss his growing feelings for Shadow because of unanswered questions. The need to protect the smaller shifter is strong, and the quiet sadness Seger recognizes in Shadow's eyes draws him in further. Shadow has loved and lost too many times to allow himself to fall once again. While he enjoys spending time with Seger, he knows he's been called to the Chameleons for a reason. Shadow may not know the guise in which the danger will appear, but he's confident it's coming. Finding answers before he falls in love is imperative.

Alrik

Author: Carol Lynne
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN: 178184366X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121

Book Description
Alrik is determined to keep sex with Ben simple, but when wolves, shifters and bullets enter their world, all bets are off. Dr Ben Cook has devoted his life to saving the Mexican Grey wolf population from extinction. A year after being shot while looking for a large pack of Mexican greys, he's determined to try again. When Ben's sister hires one of the C-7 shifters to protect him on his mission, he feels an immediate and undeniable attraction to the huge blond protector. Alrik's body yearns for his client on sight, but for a shifter who prefers sex without sentiment, Ben presents a problem. Centuries earlier, Alrik learned that love was a worthless emotion that only served to trap those stupid enough to fall. Alrik is determined to keep sex with Ben simple, but when wolves, shifters and bullets enter their world, all bets are off.

Shadows of Power

Author: Jean Hillier
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134519796
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
Shadows of Power examines public policy and in particular, the communicative processes of policy and decision-making. It explore the important who, how and why issues of policy decisions. Who really takes the decisions? How are they arrived at and why were such processes used? What relations of power may be revealed between the various participants? Using stories from planning practices, this book shows that local planning decisions, particularly those which involve consideration of issues of 'public space' cannot be understood separately from the socially constructed, subjective territorial identities, meanings and values of the local people and the planners concerned. Nor can it be fully represented as a linear planning process concentrating on traditional planning policy-making and decision-making ideas of survey analysis-plan or officer recommendation-council decision-implementation. Such notions assume that policy-and decision-making proceed in a relatively technocratic and value neutral, unidirectional, step-wise process towards a finite end point. In this book Jean Hiller explores ways in which different values and mind-sets may affect planning outcomes and relate to systemic power structures. By unpacking these and bring them together as influences on participants' communication, she reveals influences at work in decision-making processes that were previously invisible. If planning theory is to be of real use to practitioners, it needs to address practice as it is actually encountered in the worlds of planning officers and elected representatives. Hillier shed light on the shadows so that practitioners may be better able to understand the circumstances in which they find themselves and act more effectively in what is in reality a messy, highly politicised decision-making process.