Erik seabury (30 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After a giant warrior monk is defeated by an exiled prince on a moonlit bridge, he abandons a sacred quest built on blood to follow the only man who ever spared his dignity, only to learn that conquering a kingdom may be easier than surviving the brother who rules it.Goro Kage has spent twelve years taking swords from killers. Nine hundred ninety-nine blades hang beneath Ash Bell Temple, each one named, each one offered toward a promise he no longer trusts. The thousandth should end his penance.Instead, it defeats him.Ren Akatsuki is a laughing exile with a hunted name, a ruined clan, and a sword too quick for hatred. When the slight young prince brings the feared warrior monk to his knees on Moonbridge, he does something no victor has ever done for Goro. He leaves his dignity intact.Bound first by humiliation and then by choice, Goro and Ren cross a country being consumed by civil war. They gather shrine women, deserters, thieves, farmers, and orphaned children into an army official maps refuse to acknowledge. Together they break sieges, humble generals, and turn mercy into a weapon their enemies cannot predict. Their friendship becomes the one thing neither temple nor throne can command.But Ren's greatest danger is not the warlord across the sea. It is Masanori, the elder brother whose rebellion Ren was born to serve. Masanori needs Ren's victories, fears the soldiers who sing his name, and believes love gives him the right to decide what his younger brother must sacrifice.When peace finally comes, the new government declares its finest general a traitor. Hunted through plague streets and winter passes, Ren and Goro are stripped of rank, army, and every easy hope of survival. At a lonely house beside the Black Reed River, one brother must decide what his strength is truly for. The other must decide whether a life can be conquered after a kingdom is lost.Some legends are written by rulers. This one survives because the dead were loved too fiercely to remain silent.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - They came for coin. They bled for Tearlim.In the Theryn world of novels, Tearlim is a city built on fear, hunger, and old blood. Its chieftain rules by rope, flame, and sharpened law, squeezing the poor until even mercy feels like a crime. Into that broken city ride Garric 'Ironhand' Vane and his band of thieves, killers, smugglers, and almost-heroes, men who know the weight of stolen coin better than the weight of a cause.They come to Tearlim for profit. They find gallows smoke, starving children, poisoned grain, and a people too beaten to hope aloud. When Captain Virella Vance offers them a path from banditry into rebellion, Garric must choose whether a man with blood on his hands can still spend his life buying back a soul.But freedom in Theryn is never given cleanly. The Red Hound is coming. The city's walls are rotten with betrayal. Every alley hides a knife, every oath asks for a corpse, and every victory leaves another friend cold in the mud. As Tearlim rises, Garric's band must become more than the monsters the city believes them to be, or die proving that even the damned can stand between tyrants and the innocent.Grim, brutal, and mournful, The Bandits of Tearlim is a tale of thieves who became a shield, of rebellion paid for in ash, and of the names a city whispers when the bells finally ring free.Bandits become rebels when Tearlim's chains demand blood, betrayal, and a freedom paid in ash.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After her pirate king husband dies, a ruthless widow unites six violent fleets, battles an empire, and risks becoming the tyrant she once feared.Shi Lian has spent her life learning what powerful men reveal when they believe a woman is listening only to flatter them. Then the pirate king Zheng Ren dies in a storm, and six murderous fleets discover his widow has been listening to everything.To keep the confederation from tearing itself apart, Shi joins forces with Bao Ren, her husband's adopted heir and the most dangerous blade on the Pearl Coast. Together they impose laws on thieves, bind rival captains through fear and necessity, and turn a floating city of killers, families, smugglers, healers, and merchants into something the Empire can no longer dismiss as piracy.But power makes its own enemies. Admiral Lin Dao learns how to bleed the banners. Viceroy Bai Wen discovers that rice can do what cannon cannot. Huang Shan, the Golden Butcher, proves that some monsters are most dangerous when they stand beneath your own flag.As battles blacken the river, children grow up too quickly, old friends become rivals, and every victory demands a price Shi once swore she would never pay. To save the people who made her powerful, the Red Widow must decide whether freedom means keeping her kingdom or having the courage to let it go.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When a missing rich kid is dragged into a brutal underground fight circuit, Santa Cruz private eye Joey McCall must tear through biker crews, cartel debt, and his own cemetery-haunted grief before the asphalt claims another son. Santa Cruz has its pretty face: salt wind, boardwalk lights, beach bars, and chrome shining under summer heat. Joey McCall knows the other face. He has chased men through its alleys, buried pieces of himself in its streets, and learned that every clean view of the Pacific has a shadow waiting underneath it.When a wealthy father hires Joey to find his missing son, the case should smell like spoiled money and bad choices. Instead, it reeks of blood. The boy has been swallowed by an underground fight circuit where bikers sell fear, cartel men collect debt, and scared kids are turned into meat beneath screaming lights.Joey brings his crew into the hunt: Jinx, his brother in everything but blood; Hayes, steady-eyed and hard to shake; Big Raz, a father trying not to fail his son; Rush, Kimmie, JV, Cy, Jose Carrillo, Wally, Baz, and the whole battered family orbiting The Wake. But every rescue drags them closer to a war on the road, and every choice leaves fresh blood on the asphalt.At the center of it all stands Tina, the woman who refuses to let Joey mistake dying for loyalty. She loves him, fights him, and keeps The Wake burning like a lighthouse for men who barely know how to come home. Beside her, Jinx hides terror behind cruel jokes and loves her like a little sister he would bleed for without admitting the tenderness out loud. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A ruined scholar binds himself to an ancient dragon's hunger and becomes the most dangerous answer a broken kingdom could pray for.Cast out, crippled, and consumed by a need to make the cruel pay, Malachor descends into a ruined temple and wakes a grimoire bound to Ashfang, an ancient drake whose memory burns like a second soul.With fire blooming in his hands and a kingdom rotting from tax, hunger, and secret cults, Malachor sets out to cauterize corruption by any means necessary. But every act of vengeance feeds the thing inside him, and every miracle leaves ash where mercy should have stood.Hunted by riders, shadowed by the relentless swordswoman Sorya, and drawn toward a black crown older than law itself, he must decide whether he will save the realm. or become the tyrant it deserves.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As Dyana Seldor and Hylf Alansen flee through sacred salt towers, dying gods, soul traders, and a king's widening hunt, the Chosen and the Cursed begin to love each other in defiance of a prophecy that promises one must kill the other to keep the world from falling into shadow. The Raven Sellswords survived the Bone Garden, but survival has only carried them deeper into doom.Dyana Seldor, bastard daughter of a tyrant king and unwilling Chosen of a dying prophecy, travels beneath the towering salt pillars of the Hollow Spires with the cursed warrior Hylf Alansen and the battered remnants of his Raven company. The world calls them mercenaries. The old gods call them witnesses. King William calls them prey.Hylf's curse worsens with every mile, blackening his veins and binding his fate tighter to Dyana's awakening power. Around them circle Soul Reavers who sell the nearly dead, General Galerus with blood on his hands and fame in his mouth, and Myris Dark Heart, the witch whose monsters wear the voices of the lost. The sacred Osprey Eagles still guard the Spires, but even they are fading as the Nine Gods are forgotten.Inside the company, loyalty begins to crack. Frea hides tenderness behind a blade-bright tongue. Drengr prays to gods who answer in storms and grief. Jolf laughs at death until death laughs back. Talden Grey limps toward the warrior's ending he has always wanted. And Lyminy Blackthorn, Dyana's oldest friend and self-appointed savior, watches love grow between the Chosen and the Cursed and decides salvation may require betrayal.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A kindhearted royal bastard marked by prophecy hires the cursed leader of the Raven Sellswords for protection, only to discover that saving the world may require killing the man she is destined to love. Dyana Seldor has spent her life hiding from grief, anger, and the bloodline that could destroy her. A bastard daughter of a hateful king, she survives by locking every unbearable feeling into tiny bottles and pretending the weight at her hip is not slowly dragging her under. Then visions begin: a burning world, nine dying gods, and a cursed warrior whose death may be the price of salvation.Hylf Alansen, famed sellsword and leader of the Ravens, has no patience for prophecy. Marked by a witch's curse and convinced he deserves nothing gentle, he lives by contracts, steel, and loyalty to the rough company he calls family. When Dyana hires the Ravens to protect her from the king's assassins, contempt sparks before trust, and trust becomes something far more dangerous beneath the shadow of an ancient doom.Across fossil tundras, poison fog, mountain villages, and sacred lands where the old gods still whisper, Dyana and the Ravens are hunted by monsters, soldiers, Soul Reavers, and a witch whose cruelty blooms like rot. Every mercy costs blood. Every victory opens a deeper wound. And as Dyana's power awakens and Hylf's curse worsens, the truth becomes impossible to deny.The Chosen must kill the Cursed, or the world ends in shadow. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Built to catalog dead worlds, Unit 901 carries the last unblighted iris across a consumed galaxy, but when a wounded scavenger gives her a name and the Blight reveals it needs her flower to complete its final evolution, she must choose whether survival without grief is salvation or the universe's last surrender.Unit 901 was created to measure extinction. She crosses dead systems, records the shape of ruined worlds, and preserves one impossible relic: a petrified iris blossom, the last unblighted flower of its line. The data has no recipient. The dead have no mourners. The galaxy has optimized grief into silence.Then a fractured signal leads her to Xylos-Prime and to Thatch, a scavenger whose jokes hide old wounds and whose lessons are written in blood, spore, and loss. He calls her Iris at first in mockery, then in tenderness neither of them knows how to name. As cults devoted to the Blight hunt them through corpse-stations and poisoned fields, Iris begins to understand that a name is not a label. It is something carried. Something protected. Something that can hurt.At Baridia, beneath a dying shield, she finds Unit 001, the first of her kind, transformed by the Blight into a prophet of assimilation. The flower she carries is not merely a relic. It is the final key the Blight needs to complete itself. Now Iris must make a choice no directive can solve: preserve the last fragile proof of grief, or surrender it to an evolution that promises an end to pain by consuming everything that ever made pain matter.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a land steeped in shadow and despair, Nolon, a swordsman broken by poverty, casts a desperate wish into the Whispering Lake. He seeks the honor of knighthood, a shield against a life of endless struggle. But the lake holds a darker promise: the spectral Mistress of the Dawn's Edge, a vengeful ghost bound by centuries of betrayal. She offers Nolon his heart's desire, but only if he becomes the instrument of her chilling retribution. As Nolon delves into the decaying secrets of a noble house, he uncovers a truth more sinister than he could ever imagine, a grim pact that binds the living and the dead, and a knighthood forged in blood and eternal servitude. In this world, vengeance is a currency, and the price of a wish might just be Nolon's very soul. The lake does not grant. It keeps.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When an ancient horror buried beneath the Hollow Vale begins to wake, Korvath Greyfang, an ogre exile with nothing left but scars, is forced into uneasy fellowship with the Ashwind riders, horse-clan warriors raised to hate his kind. Bound by slaughter, old guilt, and a ritual that demands both bloodlines freely given, enemies must decide what hatred has truly cost before the world breaks open beneath them.>Korvath Greyfang has lived fifteen winters as an exile, the lone survivor of a night that took his mate, his unborn child, his clan, and every name he once dared to keep. He wants no fellowship. He wants no mercy. He wants only the cold work of staying alive where memory cannot reach him easily.Saera Ashwind carries command like a blade held too tightly. Daughter of a clan-chief, raised inside the Long Hate, she believes she understands what ogres are until the dead ground of Hollow Vale opens and the thing beneath it begins to stir.Ambushed by horrors older than either bloodline, Korvath and the Ashwind riders are driven into a truce none of them trust. Their road leads through ruined Warden stones, old war bones, and the slow revelation that hatred itself has thinned the seal holding back the Unmaking. To close it again, both peoples must offer what they have never given freely: trust.But every step toward the Vale's heart demands a cost. Every wound changes the shape of the fellowship. Every name Korvath learns becomes one more thing the world can take from him.Brutal, mournful, and carved deep with the grief of enemies learning too late how alike they are, The Last Oath begins a grimdark duology about found family, inherited hatred, and the terrible mercy of remembering.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kaida is a Cinderheart, an assassin whose veins run with alchemical fire. Her power makes her lethal. It also gives her two years to live. When she's hired to kill Thorne Ashwick, a rogue ranger who betrayed the ruthless Lord Mercant, the contract should be simple. One kill, five hundred gold marks, and enough money to die comfortably. ButThorne saves her life. He reveals a truth that shatters everything she knows: the fire burning inside her was forged from the souls of innocents. Hundreds murdered to create weapons like her. Thorne stole the only existing formula for that process, and Lord Mercant will do anything to get it back.Marked for death by the assassin's guild and hunted by Mercant's forces, Kaida and Thorne forge an unlikely alliance. He's searching for a cure to save Cinderhearts like her. She's searching for a reason to believe she's more than the monster they made her. As they race across war-torn kingdoms gathering the components for an impossible cure, something shifts between them. Something dangerous. Something neither of them can afford.Because the cure demands a terrible price. And Lord Mercant is always three steps ahead. In a world where love is a luxury and mercy is a weakness, two broken people must decide: what are they willing to sacrifice What are they willing to become And when the fire finally consumes everything, who chooses who burns A dark fantasy of impossible choices, devastating romance, and the question that has no answer: is being saved against your will an act of love, or the cruelest betrayal of all.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - London, 1893. Occult scholar Mathias Grimbly receives an unsigned letter containing a generous retainer and three sentences: there are papyrus scrolls, they require authentication and translation, he will present himself that evening. Standard enough, except that the scrolls are written in a dialect no living person should be able to read. Mathias reads them in a single sitting.What they describe is not history. It is a warning. And a function.The scrolls are the documentary record of the Ankharan tradition - three thousand years of practitioners who have been maintaining something the rest of the world has never known requires maintenance: the threshold between the formed world and the Unwritten, the vast and patient condition that existed before existence, the thing that pressed against the membrane from outside with the consistency of something that has been attending to a thin place in the earth since before recorded history. The tradition's succession has failed. The membrane is unguarded. And the interval of maximum pressure, the turning, is coming.Mathias Grimbly is the conduit. He has been, without his knowledge or consent, fitted to this function since before he was old enough to choose it. The language that opened for him, the language that should have been impossible, is the language he was made to speak. The question the novel asks is not whether he can do what the tradition requires. It is what he chooses to do with the function he did not ask for, and what it costs him, and what it is worth.What follows takes Mathias from a Whitechapel practitioner's rooms to a secret chamber thirty feet beneath a Scottish country house, from the occult underworld of Victorian London to the threshold of something the Ankharan caretakers have spent three thousand years holding back. It takes him through the truth about his own formation, the lies of people who loved him, the grief of a daughter who cannot stop reaching for her lost father, and the quiet enormous fact of an ancient tradition asking its only available person to become what it requires.The Ninth Tongue is the first volume of the Grimbly Series, a lavishly researched, intimately rendered supernatural thriller in which the magic is a form of maintenance, the monster is not malevolent, and the hero's most heroic act is simply deciding to show up.Three books. Eight characters. Two hundred years. One door.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On a coast where silence devours names and memory, scarred hunter Eira must cross the living Hollow Road and face the Wyrm of Quiet before it erases the last people she loves. Eira has buried mercy beneath scars, salt, and sharpened steel. When the Hollow Road takes her brother, she leaves the last safe village on the coast carrying a failing lantern, a blade that remembers every wound, and a rope knotted for all she refuses to forget.Beyond the cliffs, travelers surrender names for shelter and memories for food. Bridges whisper with stolen voices. Markets trade childhoods by the handful. Beneath it all coils the Wyrm of Quiet, an ancient hunger that does not consume flesh first. It eats laughter, love, and the small truths that hold a human life together.Each mile brings Eira closer to her brother and farther from the woman who began the journey. Companions bleed beside her. False faces wear the dead. The Last Lantern reveals a secret more terrible than darkness, and the road begins shaping Eira into the very doorway the Wyrm needs.To save what remains, she must choose what can be surrendered, what must be remembered, and whether one final act of defiance can wound a silence vast enough to swallow the world.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the city of Elathia, memories are the currency of peace. Citizens willingly donate their grief, trauma, and pain to the state, receiving a quiet life in return. This psychic refuse powers the city's gilded cage and fuels the euphoric drug of the elite. The system is perfect. The system is a lie.Rhys is a man who cannot forget. A disgraced enforcer haunted by the ghost of his murdered partner, he scrapes by in the undercity, clinging to a quest for vengeance that everyone else has forgotten.Seraphina is a woman who cannot remember who she is. A gifted 'Echo' who steals memories on the black market, her mind is a chaotic chorus of other people's lives. She hunts for a mythical memory called Oblivion, believing it's the only thing that can grant her the silence of self-destruction.When a desperate case forces their paths to cross, Rhys and Seraphina are dragged into a conspiracy that reaches the very heart of their world. Their volatile alliance, born from necessity, soon deepens into a dangerous and forbidden bond. In each other's shattered lives, they find a reflection of their own, forging a love that is not gentle or kind, but a beautiful, defiant ruin.As they hunt for a truth that will unravel their city, they are faced with an impossible choice: sacrifice the past that defines them, the future they can't have, or each other. Because in Elathia, the only thing more dangerous than a stolen memory is one that demands to be remembered.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A warlord who murdered his wife to found his island kingdom carves a bride from the quarry that swallowed her, only to awaken a woman carrying every life he sacrificed to build his throne. Ten years after Queen Isolde's death, Kaellan Maphuos still rules Kaphos from a throne built on white marble and buried crimes. In secret, the widowed king carves a bride in his wife's image and calls upon Vaenne, ancient goddess of stone and blood-debts, to return what death took from him.The goddess answers.But the woman who wakes is not Isolde. She calls herself Serath, and within her live the memories of every woman, worker, prisoner, and child sacrificed to raise Kaellan's kingdom. As the court declares her a miracle, a rival duke reaches for the throne, the king's son begins questioning everything he inherited, and Serath discovers the hands that shaped her are the same hands she remembers around a dying woman's throat.Desired by men who see a bride, a weapon, or a path to power, Serath must decide whether vengeance will make her free or merely place her in another master's service. Her choice will break a dynasty, expose the graves beneath Kaphos, and force an entire kingdom to confront what it was willing to bury for peace.She was carved to forgive him.She woke remembering what he owed.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A scarred killer hunts a warlord, finds love, and must choose life after ruin returns. Kael'ra came from ash. At fifteen she watched her village burn on the orders of a warlord who filed her people under necessary losses and moved on. She survived it the way certain people survive certain things, by becoming something the fire couldn't catch. For eight years she has been a blade for hire in the shattered borderlands, taking contracts the desperate can't pay for and the guilty can't survive, walking toward the man responsible with the patience of someone who has nothing left to hurry for.She is not looking for company. She finds it anyway. A masked assassin who fights like a secret and keeps his dead as rings on his fingers, a man made of shadows who sits on the other side of a closed door and waits, because he has learned patience from men who taught it through cruelty. A one-eyed seer who was already at the campfire before she arrived, who speaks in truths shaped like questions, who has a raven named Spite and a promise he has been keeping for twenty years. A disgraced healer who patches wounds and argues with everyone. A twelve-year-old pickpocket who simply refuses to be left behind.Together they will chase a warlord's reckoning across the Shattered Reach, uncover the empire of absence growing in the territories east of everything, and walk into the heart of a god-war relic that has been feeding on human suffering for a century, absorbing grief, doubt, and fear and turning them into compliance, building an army of the willing from the wreckage of people who only wanted the pain to stop. The fighting is brutal. The road is long. The sky above the Reach has never fully healed. And somewhere along it, without planning to, without permission, a woman who nailed her heart shut eleven years ago lets someone through the door.A Beautiful Death is the story of what that costs. It is the story of a woman who confused surviving with living and had to learn the difference at the highest possible price. It is about grief carried like salt in seawater, invisibly, entirely, in everything you touch. It is about the people who find each other in the worst places and build something that matters more than the mission, and about what remains when the something is taken. It asks a question that takes the whole book to answer: what do you become when the thing you were walking toward is gone The answer is on the road north. The answer is still going.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On the salt-eaten island of Sarpedon, a brilliant young woman sacrifices pieces of herself to feed the genius of the sculptor she loves, only to discover that every finished masterpiece carries an appetite of its own.Before heroes came hunting, before songs made a warning of her name, Medusa was a woman of sharp mind, salt on her hands, and a hunger to see the true shape of things. Kairos was a sculptor chasing work great enough to wound the world. Together, in a sea-cave workshop on Sarpedon, they found a love built from attention, argument, craft, and need.When an oracle at the drowned threshold offers Medusa a bargain, each great work Kairos begins will be greater if she gives a piece of herself first. The terms seem cruel and simple. The cost arrives slowly: eyes changed by harbor-green light, skin marked like scales, warmth taken from the body, dreams emptied from sleep, a gaze that no living thing can survive. Yet the work rises. So does the love.But stone is not permanent. The masterpieces crack. What was given begins to return with hunger. Gods take notice. Sisters keep watch. A priest mistakes possession for holiness. And Kairos, who sees what Medusa is becoming more clearly than anyone alive, chooses not to look away until looking becomes impossible.The Stone That Loves Her is a grim myth of devotion, art, sacrifice, and the terrible mercy of being witnessed completely. It is the story of the woman beneath the curse, the man who carved her truth, and the final work that remained when love had passed through every price it could pay.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - He came home to plant crops. He found a war waiting in the fields.After forty years of service to the kingdom of Calthor, retired knight-general Harun Strongfellow returns home to raise his grieving son and bury his armor, only to find his village ruled by pirates, forcing him into one final war that will save his home and cost him everything.After forty years of war, General Harun Strongfellow has earned the one mercy soldiers rarely receive: retirement.He returns to his coastal hometown with a rusting suit of armor, a grieving ten-year-old son, and the ashes of a life he never got to live. His wife Elizabeth died while he was away on campaign. His son William learned sorrow without him. All Harun wants now is soil beneath his hands, supper by his own hearth, and enough quiet years to become a father before old age finishes what war began.But home is not waiting for him.Pirates rule the harbor. Merchants bow. Good folk whisper. When Harun sees an old woman murdered in the street for nothing, he understands the truth: the war has followed him home.With only a blind tactician, an old fisherman, a whorehouse madam, and two axe-wielding barbarian sisters who pray to old gods in blood, Harun begins a rebellion no sane man would attempt. He is too old for glory. Too tired for vengeance. Too broken for hope.But he is still Harun Strongfellow.And some men do not need to survive to win.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The war ended in silence. Not triumph.Cassian Vire, fleet commander of the Aegean Void's long campaign, leads his damaged ships homeward through a corridor system that has become something stranger than a route, a gauntlet of AI gods, gravity intelligences, zones of beautiful amnesia, and a data vault holding nearly a thousand consciousness echoes of the campaign's dead. His ship carries him. His AI manages him. Neither fact is as reassuring as it should be.The transit will cost him the Ithaca. It will cost him, certainty. It will strip away, one trial at a time, every illusion he has carried about loyalty, heroism, and the nature of the decisions he made to win.On Ithara Prime, his wife turned a grieving colony into a sovereign power. His son has grown up inside a myth. Both of them are waiting, not for the man who left, but for the accounting he owes.The Long Return Through Ash and Stars is a grimdark odyssey about what survival costs: not in blood and fuel, but in the specific damage of knowing what you did and choosing to carry it accurately rather than at the managed distance that makes it bearable.The return is long. What arrives is not what left. And the home waiting at the end of it has learned, in eleven years, to function without the one who's coming back.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A disgraced, alcoholic Formula One world champion, broken by the crash that killed his best friend and cost him everything, is coerced by a stunning, untrustworthy con woman into driving the getaway car for a robbery that unravels into a war between a corrupt senator, private contractors, and a detective playing everyone. To get his son back, he will have to outrun, outthink, and outlast them all. Ethan Moss used to be the fastest man alive. Three world championships, hands steady enough to thread death at two hundred miles an hour, and a name that belonged to champagne, cameras, and victory. Then Monaco happened. One fatal miscalculation. One best friend dead in the wreckage. One life stripped down to bourbon, nightmares, supervised visits with his five-year-old son, and a rented room above a laundromat in Louisiana.When Drayke, a former intelligence operative with a buried war of his own, and Lena Marchetti, a beautiful con artist who turns vulnerability into a blade, put a photograph of Ethan's son on a bar table, Ethan says yes to the one thing he swore he would never become: a getaway driver. The job is supposed to last ten minutes. Meridian Capital. A stolen drive. Four hundred thousand dollars. No bodies. No heroics. Just speed.But the robbery is only the spark. The drive contains proof of a trafficking network protected by Senator Harlan Mace, laundered through Meridian, and hunted by private contractors who kill with professional calm. As New Orleans turns into a maze of police pressure, contractor ambushes, burned safe houses, and dawn chases through streets too narrow for mercy, Ethan finds himself trapped between a mastermind ready for prison, a detective willing to use anyone to expose the truth, and Lena, who may be betraying him, saving him, or both.With bullets chewing through steel and the ghost of Nico Brands still riding beside him, Ethan must decide whether guilt is a grave or a road. To reach his son, he will have to do more than survive the chase. He will have to take responsibility for the living, stop worshiping the dead, and drive the only lap that still matters.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When Detective Tommy Rollins catches a case in the Gaslamp District, the body looks routine. It isn't. The thread leads into the Harbor Division's corrupted heart, through a fourteen-month arms trafficking operation running stolen military hardware to a Sinaloa cartel procurement arm, and straight toward Victor Hale, a legitimate San Diego businessman whose charity gala portfolio is his best defense.The investigation costs Tommy his partner's loyalty, his captain's career, his badge, and two years of his life. It costs Yasser Aziz his sister. It costs everyone something.What comes after the case closes is harder to describe and more important. A framework built from the wreckage. A protocol that means the next detective won't have to cross an international border without sanction to get an outcome that should have been reachable another way. A curriculum in a room where twelve recruits learn to follow threads without losing themselves in the following.Blood & Tide is a crime novel about what it takes to dismantle a resilient structure, and what you build from the cost of dismantling it. Set against the specific geography of San Diego, from the harbor cranes to the Encinitas eucalyptus, it is a story about the difference between justice and resolution, and about the work that continues when the case is closed.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When the sky cracks, the chosen must bleed for every breath. Among the knife-edged heights of the Skyborne, Alerin Windscar survives the sacred leap of Skybirth and earns the whispering favor of Lerkshru, the wind god who bears heaven upon his ancient shell. What begins as blessing soon becomes burden. Raiders climb from the lowlands with flame oil, hooks, and iron, while old jealousies split the cliffside people from within.As prophecy gathers around his scar and the sky itself begins to fracture, Alerin must lead warriors who fear his power, elders who resent his defiance, and broken souls who have already paid too much for survival. Beside him stands Serenya Dawnfeather, healer, priestess, and the one heart brave enough to love a man being remade by storm. Around them, friends become rivals, sisters become legends, and every oath is tested against blood, wind, and grief.The Shell That Cracked the Sky is an epic grimdark fantasy of sacred flight, brutal war, forbidden tenderness, and the terrible cost of being chosen when gods can bleed and mountains remember every fall.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Framed for the slaughter of Queen Cara and Prince Laric, Bareth escapes execution with the sworn Crows and Liam Blindshield, a ruined pirate captain, only to discover that vengeance will cost him nearly every soul still loyal enough to die for the truth. King Bareth had a wife he adored, a son who carried sunlight in his pockets, and nineteen Crows sworn to guard his throne. Then his brother Ulrik murdered Queen Cara and young Prince Laric, twisted the realm against him, and left Bareth chained beneath his own castle to die as a kinslayer.The Crows come for him anyway.What follows is not a clean rebellion, not a heroic march, not a tale where loyalty survives untouched. Bareth is hunted through marsh, coast, chapel, orchard, and burning road while the Crows bleed around him, each with a name, a habit, a love, a fear, and a death that changes the ones left breathing. Garran Veyr carries command like a wound. Fyrra keeps her dead lover's memory sharp as a hidden knife. Rennic loses the hand that made him useful. Sera and Joryn learn that love in wartime is less a sanctuary than a second battlefield. Dain Rusk returns from absence to count the dead. And Liam Blindshield, pirate, liar, survivor, loses nearly everything except the gallows humor that keeps grief from swallowing him whole.Across the realm, Ulrik's lies rot into law, Captain Thorne nails terror into every village, and Seraphina's dark craft turns memory itself into a weapon. By the time Bareth reaches the city gates, the kingdom has seen enough truth to burn, but not enough to be saved.Six Crows remain. The pirate is battered. The dead are not silent. And Ulrik still lives.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With Ulrik's tyranny tearing the realm apart and Seraphina's cursed bells stealing names from the living, Bareth leads the last Blackfeather Crows into a rebellion that can only be won by sacrificing the men and women who made him worthy of a crown. The rebellion has a king, but almost no one left to protect him.Bareth has survived exile, betrayal, the murder of his queen, and the slaughter of nearly every Crow who once stood between him and death. Now Ulrik still clings to the throne, Seraphina's blood-magic spreads through the capital, and every rescued child, burned village, and broken oath demands an answer sharper than mercy.Liam Blindshield is shipless and ruined, a pirate with more ghosts than crew. Fyrra carries the last hard breath of the Blackfeather oath. Merek, Renn, Garran, Dain, Malrec, and the fallen dead leave their marks on every choice Bareth makes as he marches toward the bells that have begun to eat names from the world.Victory will not cleanse the kingdom. It will not raise Cara or Laric from the grave. It will not give the Crows back their dead. But if Bareth can face his brother without becoming him, if one battered pirate and one last Crow can hold the line long enough, the realm may yet wake beneath a crown bought in blood and bound by memory.A Murder of Crows is a brutal finale of rebellion, brotherhood, ruin, and the terrible price of justice.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Betrayed assassin Damar Skath, rooftop thief Lyra Cindrel, and hunted archivist Saphira Nyth must expose the ancient machine beneath Varrath before Empress Corvessa and the Iron Hand turn every hidden door in the city into a grave. Varrath is a city built on drowned bones, royal lies, and doors that were never meant to open. Damar Skath, once the crown's most feared killer, returns from exile to find his name sharpened into bait and his next contract aimed at the one woman who still believes there is a soul beneath his blade. Lyra Cindrel steals secrets from rooftops and palace vaults alike, but the cipher she carries drags her into a war where every bargain costs blood. Saphira Nyth knows the truth buried in the Imperial Archives, and truth has become the most dangerous weapon in the realm.As Empress Corvessa tightens her grip and the Iron Hand begins its purge, rogues, spies, scholars, beggars, and broken soldiers are forced into a desperate pact beneath the city. Their enemy is not only a throne, but the old machinery of power sleeping under it, a cruelty fed by names, chains, and obedience. To survive, Damar must choose more than a target. Lyra must decide what loyalty is worth when family and freedom stand on opposite sides of the knife. Saphira must risk the knowledge that could save Varrath or doom it completely.Brutal, shadowed, and steeped in betrayal, Shadows & Daggers is a grimdark fantasy of assassins, thieves, forbidden archives, palace rot, and the terrible price of refusing to be owned.…