Eve of Darkness (Marked Series #1)

by S. J. Day, Sylvia Day

Overview

Cursed by God, hunted by demons, desired by Cain and Abel... All in a day's work.

For Evangeline Hollis, a long ago fling with a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks just became a disaster of biblical proportions. One night with a leather-clad man of mystery has led to a divine punishment: the Mark of Cain.

Thrust into a world where sinners are drafted into service to kill demons, Eve’s learning curve is short. A longtime agnostic, she begrudgingly maneuvers through a celestial bureaucracy where she is a valuable but ill-treated pawn. She’s also become the latest point of contention in the oldest case of sibling rivalry in history...

But she’ll worry about all that later. Right now she’s more concerned with learning to kill while staying alive. And saving the soul she’d never believed she had.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466834866
Publisher:	Tom Doherty Associates
Publication date:	01/08/2013
Series:	Marked Series , #1
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	92,742
File size:	819 KB

About the Author

Sylvia Day’s resume includes a variety of odd jobs ranging from amusement park employee to POW interrogator. S.J. is now a full-time novelist.

Read an Excerpt

"The mainstream corporate office environment is pure hell at this moment. Bosses pester and spy on their employees as a matter of course, whether by remotely reading their email or just barging into a cubicle with a question or a comment... And the age of cell phones, Blackberries, and iPhones is also an age in which private life has been crushed out once and for all. If you boss has your cell phone number, you are never off work.

"The nameless lead character in FIGHT CLUB also starts out as an office drone. It's worth noting that his pseudo-revolutionary movement seems populated by men on the lower end of the employment spectrum... but he himself is a relatively successful middle-class insurance investigator at the beginning of the film...

"The threat of a workplace massacre becomes at once fodder for comedy, and a moment in which we're expected to cheer for the narrator as he threatens his boss...

"J.G. Ballard's SUPER-CANNES: this novel, released one year after the Fight Club movie and four years after the book, deals with superficially similar themes: men releasing the stress of business through violence, but from the other side of the mirror...

"Psychopathy is its own most potent cure, and has been throughout history. At times it grips entire nations in a vast therapeutic spasm. No drug has ever been more potent..."

"You remember that Fight Club's author wants you to buy his book, and the movie's director wanted you to buy a ticket, and then maybe later the deluxe DVD boxed set. As the late stand-up comedian Bill Hicks said, "He's going after that ANTI-marketing dollar. That's a big market..."

"In the real world, workplace shooters are much more likely to come from working-class or at best middle-class backgrounds... An early, paradigmatic example is that of Richard Farley... he stalked a female coworker, Laura Black, for four years beginning in 1984...Farley was terminated in May 1986. On February 2, 1988, Black obtained a restraining order against him...On February 16, Farley, by then unemployed... showed up at ESL with two shotguns, a rifle, four pistols and a knife, along with over 1000 rounds of ammunition. He killed seven employees and wounded four, including Black, before surrendering to police. He's currently on death row in California...

"America has workplace shooting sprees because corporate America creates the psychosexual sphere that breeds these types of situations, but it's also because America has the guns..."

"Companies treat their workers like slaves and criminals rolled into one, spying on them, and never letting them forget that they can be fired at any time. Everyone knows someone who's out of a job; most people know someone who's been out of a job for a year or more...

"If workers had spaces of true privacy, they would be happier, and ultimately more productive. And maybe nobody would get shot. But it seems that this is just one more way in which Americans are going to have to accept a few bodies as the cost of doing business."

Table of Contents

Space Racy by Johannes Grenzfurthner
What Does It Mean to Love a Machine? by Jonathan Mann
Blowing Your Load—The Workplace Shooting Spree as Sexual Metaphor by Phil Freeman
Love in the Time of Drones by Thomas Ballhausen
Designing Sex for Space Tourism by Samuel Coniglio and Katherine Becvar
Personal Portraits of Australia by Rich Gibson
The Six Feet Under Club: Interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner by Nadja Sayej
Queer Technologies—Component Theory and Viral Aesthetics by Zach Blas
Crash on Television—Primetime Autogeddon by Jack Sargeant
Screw the System by Arse Elektronika 2011
Sex, Lies, and Phthalates—Why the James Deen Dildo Isn't as Safe as it Should Be by Lux Alptraum
The Importance of Being Kinky by Thomas Ballhausen
We Know Apocalypses by Johannes Grenzfurthner
Designing Desire—Meditations on Technosexuality by Gopinaath Kannabiran
The Golden Age of Porn Is Just Beginning by Maggie Mayhem
Notes from and about the Pornographic Screenplay Workshop by Gabriel Menotti
Re-Caste-ing Alternative Sexuality—A Class Analysis of Social Sttus i the BDSM Scene by maymay
Sexual Science, Academia, and the PSIgasm Project by Ned Mayhem
4 Play by Arse Elektronika 2012
Amorous Bodies in Play—Sexuality in Nordic Live Action Role-Playing Games by Jaakko Stenros
Multi-P)rofile, Platform-Based Socio-Sexual Performance Constituted thru Polyamorous Relationships by Megan Rosalynn Rothstein and Adam Rothstein
Want It From Behind While You Play Super Mario Brothers? by Anonymous in Orlando
Awkward Sex—Exploring the Uncanny Valley by Pietro Righi Riva
Proverted Pleasures—Orgasm and Gameplay by Heather Kelley
Sex, Violence and the In-Between—Bikini Beach Zombie Massacres by Lindsay D. Grace
The Game 2.0—Games as Sexual Selection Criteria by Maggie Mayhem and Ned Mayhem
Acceptance Speech for Prixxx Arse Elektronika 2012: 4 Play by Anna Anthropy
Fucking Polygons, Fucking Pixels—On Procedural Representations of Sex by Paolo Pedercini
And much more, too many to list here!