Zuzana Smolinská Books

Exclusive Edition featuring sprayed edges, a silver foil jacket, a full-color illustration on the reverse, beautifully designed endpapers, a silver foil case stamp, and a black-and-white interior illustration by acclaimed artist Avendell. “What is it you think you’re protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There’s no one left for you to save.” Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner of war and her own mind. Her Resistance allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and her world destroyed. In the aftermath, Paladia's corrupt guild families and necromancers hold her captive. Although Resistance records deem her a healer of little importance, Helena suffers from memory loss regarding her capture, leading her enemies to question her true significance. To uncover the buried memories, she is sent to the High Reeve, a powerful necromancer. Trapped on his crumbling estate, Helena’s struggle to protect her lost history and preserve her former self begins. For both her prison and captor harbor secrets that she must uncover, no matter the cost. In this gripping dark fantasy debut, a woman with missing memories battles to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy.

Clara Graysword has survived the underworld of Eclipse City through thievery, luck, and a whole lot of illegal magic. After a job gone awry, Clara is sentenced to a lifetime in prison for inking tarot cardsa rare power reserved for practitioners at the elite Arcana Academy. Just when it seems her luck has run dry, the academys enigmatic headmaster, Prince Kaelis, offers her an escapefor a price. Kaelis believes that Clara is the perfect tool to help him steal a tarot card from the king and use it to re-create an all-powerful card long lost to time. In order to conceal her identity and keep her close, Kaelis brings Clara to Arcana Academy, introducing her as the newest first-year student and his bride-to-be. Thrust into a world of arcane magic and royal intrigue, where one misstep will send her back to prison or worse, Clara finds that the prince she swore to hate may not be what he seems. But can she risk giving him power over the worldand her heart? Or will she take it for herself?[Bokinfo].

Výučba sa začína. Nicholas St. John sa stal stredobodom záujmu všetkých mladých dám, odkedy ho populárny ženský časopis označil za jedného z najžiadanejších slobodných lordov. Keď sa mu teda naskytne príležitosť uniknúť z módnej londýnskej spoločnosti, s radosťou ju využije. Počas cesty na sever však narazí na ženu, ktorá je iná ako všetky ostatné – tajomná, nezávislá a zároveň zmyselná. Lady Isabel Townsendová, dcéra titulovaného márnotratníka, má priveľa tajomstiev a primálo peňazí. Hoci bola odjakživa zvyknutá spoliehať sa len na seba, odkedy zomrel jej otec, cíti sa stratená a naliehavo potrebuje pomoc, aby ochránila dedičské právo svojho mladšieho brata. Možno práve lord Nicholas by mohol byť spásou, ktorú hľadá. Stačí, ak sa bude riadiť desiatimi lekciami, vďaka ktorým získa tohto žiaduceho muža. No dáma musí byť opatrná a nesmie urobiť žiadne unáhlené rozhodnutie – ako napríklad vášnivo sa zamilovať.