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    Lord of Shadows. Book two. The dark artifices
    Vanished
    The Dead Tracks
    The Fire Pit
    The Last Goodbye
    The Blackbird
    • 2025

      Zmizelá rodina

      • 496 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      Je teplý slunečný den a rodina Fowlerových vyráží k vodě. Sara s dcerkou Mable zůstanou na břehu, zatímco Marc se synem a jeho přítelkyní vyplouvají na jezero. Sara jen na minutku zavře oči. Netuší, že se probudí do noční můry. Manžel se synem a synovou přítelkyní beze stopy zmizí. Člun se vznáší na hladině prázdný. Policie je bezradná, a tak se případu ujímá David Raker, specialista na pátrání po pohřešovaných osobách. Tentokrát ale možná narazil na záhadu, kterou nerozluští ani on. Jak se mohli tři lidé během jediné minuty ztratit z člunu uprostřed jezera? A jak se vším souvisí uprchlý vrah, který zmizel ze zamčené zadržovací cely v londýnském kasinu? Raker se obrací na svého přítele Colma Healyho, aby mu s vyšetřováním pomohl. Nemá ani ponětí, že se oba řítí vstříc temnotě, z níž už možná nebude návratu. Některá tajemství mají být odhalena, zatímco jiná… by měla zůstat navěky pohřbená.

      Zmizelá rodina
    • 2025

      Bound in an unwanted marriage, Freya spends her days gutting fish, but dreams of becoming a warrior. And of putting an axe in her boorish husband's back. Freya's dreams abruptly become reality when her husband betrays her to the region's jarl, landing her in a fight to the death against his son. To survive, Freya is forced to reveal her deepest secret: she possesses a drop of a goddess's blood, which gives her magic capable of repelling any attack. A magic that was foretold would unite the fractured nation of Skaland beneath a king-the one who controls the shield maiden's fate. Believing he's destined to rule Skaland, the fanatical jarl binds Freya with a blood oath and orders his son, Bjorn, to protect Freya from their enemies. Desperate to prove her strength, Freya must train to fight and learn to control her magic, all while facing perilous tests set by the gods. Except the greatest test of all may be resisting her forbidden attraction to Bjorn. If Freya succumbs to her lust for the charming and fierce warrior, she risks not only her own destiny but the fate of all the people she swore to protect.

      A Fate Inked in Blood
    • 2025

      Quicksilver

      • 624 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate. In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isn't much a girl wouldn't do for a glass of water. Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen's reservoirs for as long as she can remember. But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone. When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently re-opens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares... but it turns out they're real, and Saeris has landed herself in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed. The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher, a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her Alchemist's magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him . . . or her. Death has a name. It is Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate. His past is murky. His attitude stinks. And he's the only way Saeris is going to make it home. Be careful of the deals you make, dear child. The devil is in the details . . .

      Quicksilver
    • 2024

      Zapečetěná hrobka III. Nona Devátá

      • 480 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
      4.0(20)Add rating

      Třetí část nekonvenční a nespoutané sci-fi série Zapečetěná hrobka. Její město se ocitlo v obležení. Zombíci se vracejí. Ale Nona myslí na jediné — na svou narozeninovou oslavu a vytoužené gumičky do vlasů. V mnoha ohledech je Nona jako ostatní lidé. Žije s rodinou, pracuje v místní škole a miluje procházky po pláži, plavání s medúzami a psy. Jenže ve skutečnosti Nona není jako ostatní — před šesti měsíci se probudila v těle, které jí dost možná ani nepatří, a teď má strach, že ho bude muset co nevidět vrátit. Město propadá panice. Na obzoru visí zářivě modrá koule a chystá se celou planetu pozřít. Jednotky Krve Edenu obklíčily poslední výspu Kohorty a čekají, až Nehynoucí císař dorazí svým lidem na pomoc. Velitelé chtějí mít z Nony zbraň, která by je před Devíti klany ochránila. Nona by ovšem raději vedla normální život se svými blízkými, Pyrrhou, Camillou a Palamedem. Zároveň však ví, že nic netrvá věčně. A do toho se jí každou noc zdá o dívce, která má na tváři nakreslenou lebku…

      Zapečetěná hrobka III. Nona Devátá
    • 2024

      "On the night Tom Brenner and his nine-year-old son Leo visit the Seven Peaks theme park, they head straight for the ghost house. They go in. But they don't come out. Somewhere inside the ride, impossible as it seems, the two of them simply vanish. ... When Rebekah Murphy was three, her mother walked out of their childhood home and never returned. Nearly four decades on, Fiona Murphy is still missing. But then, out of the blue, a letter arrives in the post. It says it's from Fiona. Missing persons investigator David Raker is hired by Rebekah to find out if the letter is actually from Fiona - and, if it isn't, why someone would pretend to be her. But this is a mystery whose secrets were never meant to be found. And as Raker starts to connect the dots from Fiona to the Brenners, he begins to realise he can't trust anyone - even the people closest to him... "--Publisher.

      The Last Goodbye
    • 2024

      Ohař & liška

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      4.2(224)Add rating

      ODPLATA NEBÝVÁ SNADNÁ ANI LACINÁ… Patřit k slavnému rodu Madridů má být čest, protože právě oni jsou Ohaři: elitní královská stráž. Pro Tempest je to ale prokletí, které z ní učiní sirotka vyrůstajícího mezi cvičenými zabijáky. Jen touha po pomstě jí pomůže překonat náročný výcvik a stát se první Ohařkou v historii. Současně tím však zaujme krále Destina, který ji postaví před takřka nemožný úkol. Má vypátrat Šprýmaře, lišáckého vůdce povstání měňavců, a přinést panovníkovi jeho srdce. Pokud neuspěje, skončí její kariéra Ohařky dřív, než vůbec začala. Tempest nehodlá obětovat roky dřiny jen tak. Hon na nejhledanějšího zločince v zemi je vynikající příležitost, jak se prosadit a zároveň vypátrat vraha své matky. Jenže tentokrát si ukousla příliš velké sousto. Lovkyně se stává lovnou zvěří… ___ Romantická i napínavá new adult fantasy pro čtenářky bestsellerů Laury Thalassy a Sarah J. Maas.

      Ohař & liška
    • 2023

      David Raker is back with another heart-pounding and tense missing persons case. Praise For The David Raker Series: 'Terrific' Sunday Times 'Packed with twists' Daily Express 'What a talent' Daily Mail 'Impressive' Guardian

      The Blackbird
    • 2023

      The finale to the darkly hypnotic Bargainer series! There are worse things than death. Things that lurk in the shadows and slip into your dreams. Things that have no business existing. Things that once slept... but have now awoken. For Callypso Lillis, the fae magic that now runs through her veins is equal parts curse and good fortune. For the very thing that bonds her to Desmond Flynn, the King of the Night, also makes her vulnerable to the Thief of Souls, a man who wants to break the world... and Callie along with it. But it's not just the Thief whose shadow looms over the Otherworld. Des's father is back from the dead, and he wants revenge on the son who sent him to the grave in the first place. Des and Callie must figure out how to stop both men, and time is running out. Because there are forces at play working to tear the lovers apart once and for all... and unfortunately for them, death is no longer the worst thing to fear.

      Dark Harmony
    • 2023

      A Strange Hymn (The Bargainers Book 2)

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading
      4.2(719)Add rating

      A siren is reunited with her former flame - a Fae King - as they try and save his kingdom from an evil force who has also been keeping them from their happy ending.

      A Strange Hymn (The Bargainers Book 2)
    • 2022

      The shadow at the door

      • 496 pages
      • 18 hours of reading
      4.1(424)Add rating

      THE GRIPPING, BRAND-NEW COLLECTION FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR - DAVID RAKER IS BACK . . . FOUR MYSTERIES It's a night just like any other in the Conister home - but then Paul heads upstairs and never comes back. When his wife Maggie goes to see where he is, she can't find him. His phone and wallet are by the bed. The windows are locked from the inside. Paul has vanished. FOUR STORIES Missing persons investigator David Raker is an expert in locating the lost. So when he's hired by Maggie, he knows that in every disappearance - however impossible it seems - there's an answer. What he doesn't know yet is that his search for Paul Conister will become linked to three other mysteries . . . ONE CONNECTION A night patrolman on the London Underground makes a deadly discovery. A cold case is reopened - but the key witness appears to no longer exist. And thousands of miles away, a random shooting may not be random at all. David Raker is key to unlocking the truth . . . ________ Praise for Tim Weaver: 'Smart, pacy and completely gripping' T.M. LOGAN 'So many twists and surprises' TIMES 'Impressive' GUARDIAN 'Terrific' SUNDAY TIMES 'I couldn't put it down' SUN 'Twisty, unpredictable and so gripping' CLAIRE DOUGLAS 'Packed with twists' DAILY EXPRESS 'Genuinely original' GILLIAN MCALLISTER

      The shadow at the door