The third book in the Shadow Grail series by the New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary EdghillThe students of Oakhurst Academy believe they have triumphed over the Shadow Knights. But Spirit, Burke, Muirin, Loch, and Addie know better. Under the guise of a company called Breakthrough Adventure Systems, the Shadow Knights have actually taken over the campus. The new regime is brutal, designed to turn the students into soldiers wielding both weapons and magic. Anyone who protests disappears. Desperate, the group decides that Muirin should go undercover to spy on Breakthrough. But Muirin’s act is a little too good, and Spirit begins to fear that her friend’s loyalties might have truly changed. Surrounded by enemies and friends who suddenly seem like strangers, Spirit has decide who can—and cannot—be trusted. Views: 34
Sometimes, you have to fight fire with fire. Or demons with demons. The
paladins have a storied history, one tainted by a twisted sacrifice. To
fight the demon lords intent on taking over their world, they had to
make a deal with one. Under this pact, paladin Cedric Arrington
is forged into a weapon. Wearing his black armor to signal to all of
Nirendia his dark allegiance, he is a man beset by shadow on a quest to
send all demons back to the Abyss. A demon lord named Orcus
emerges from the underworld, and the foundations of the human kingdom of
Surdel begin to fracture and weaken. Undead rise without the
Necromancer. Demons pour out of Mount Godun at the heart of the tranquil
realm, and no one but the paladins can smite the fiery creatures back
to where they came from. Cedric is joined by Prince Jayden of
the dark elven Etyria Empire, who have fought their share of undead and
evil creatures under their ancient, fallen cities for thousands of
years. They search for hope. They search for a weapon capable of
defeating a demon lord. As King Aethis Eldenwald looks for
answers to his demon and undead problem, old enemies from the south seek
vengeance for recent wrongs. Meanwhile, in the capital Kingarth, the
Necromancer Ashton Jeraldson is held hostage by a father grieving the
loss of his famous son. When Ashton’s pleas for release fall on deaf
ears, he is given a tantalizing choice: stay prisoner while the world
burns or make his own deal with the darkness. Views: 34
Рассказ вошёл в сборники: A Medicine For Melancholy (Лекарство от меланхолии) The Stories of Ray Bradbury (И грянул гром: 100 рассказов) Views: 34
Scorched ... The bizarre eternal being, Scorch, rears his mischievous head, placing Venir and Melegal at odds in a series of fights that are life or death. Fogle, Brak and Jubilee find themselves way off the rendezvous point with Venir and Kam only to wind up in a camp full of thugs and thieves. Brak faces off against an old enemy, the ogre that broke his back, Gondoon Stoneskin. Led by Boon, Billip, Georgio, Lefty and Nikkel, fight alongside the Jung and the Striders, only to suffer heavy loses at the hands of the underlings. As the underlings continue to flood the above ground cities, Master Sidebor, at odds with his son, Master Sinway, finds an unlikely ally in a magnificent underling woman called Elypsa. Will blood be split? Skulls crushed? Guts jangled? What do you think? ** Views: 34
She doesn’t want him. He doesn’t need her. Like hell… Destin Mortin’s psychic gift comes with an ugly twist—she excels at tracking down violent rapists. But it’s rough on relationships. Once, her partner Caleb was her everything: filter, shield, rescuer, lover. The only man who didn’t think her a freak. Then he walked away. Destin turned her back on the FBI to work for a private agency, but now a particularly horrendous case has come up, and her boss wants her paired with only the best. For Caleb Durand, leaving Destin was an act of self-preservation. Every time she flung herself headlong into dangerous situations, every time he nursed her through soul-crushing visions, he’d died a little more inside. Now they are forced to work together one last time. Tragedy has changed them both, but Caleb knows if he lowers his shields for an instant, he won’t have an icicle’s chance in hell of resisting the temptation to lose himself in her wild power. But to catch the rapist, it’s exactly what he’ll have to do. Warning: Contains tortured souls who have lost love and pined for their missing half, a woman who can see evil, and a hot FBI agent. Views: 34
Рассказ вошёл в сборники: The Golden Apples of the Sun (Золотые яблоки солнца) Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (Сборник ста лучших рассказов) Views: 34
