Keane elias (6 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Most of them got free. Nobody counted the ones who didn't. When the great clock stopped, the bound souls of Hollowmere rose up out of the copper and went wherever it is that names go. That is the story the city tells itself now, six weeks on, huddled around wood fires in a dark where the trams and the foundries and the heated floors have all gone quiet. It is not the whole story. The ones threaded deepest, bound longest, wired into lines laid before the Expansion, did not rise. The way out was never built to reach that far down. They frayed instead. There are hundreds of them still in the cooling conduit under the cobbles, not released and not dead, and the Church never troubled to write a word for what they are. Cal Vane burned out his gift to stop the machine and has a shaking hand to show for it. He cannot hear them. Soot can. And something down in the deep wire has begun testing the lines, a slow hungry pulse feeling for whatever is left, and the lost have learned to go silent when it comes. Above the Ash Quarter, a Dissenting cleric named Maren Soldt walks into a dark corridor carrying a candle and eleven years of preparation, and says, to nobody at all, \*we begin anyway.\* In a room at the Weaver's Rest, Kira Marsh's body goes on breathing while the rest of her is somewhere in the Escapement Wheel, still reaching for her son. And in the Cathedral, the Arch-Cogitant has an offer. One quiet word in the right ear and Cal's brother withdraws the incompetence claim, the Vane inheritance is safe, and the truth about the machine stays exactly where it is. The city would only burn if it knew. \*\*The Hollow Cathedral\*\* is Book Two of the Hollow Clock Saga. Read after The Hollow Clock. Free to read in Kindle Unlimited. - Gothic gaslamp fantasy with a slow-burn M/M romance at its center- A dead architect reassembling himself out of the city's own copper- The price of a rescue that only half worked- Book Two of three. The trilogy finishes in The Hollow City.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Every debt in this family was signed in someone else's name. To stop a faction that means to burn the world's financial and intelligence networks to the ground, Caleb Rourke must do the one thing he swore he never would: claim the seat his father held, inside the institution that killed him. The path runs through a London tower, a Brussels clearinghouse, and the last man who knows the whole truth, a custodian whose forty years of silence cost more than anyone guessed. Around Caleb, the people he loves make their own reckonings. Zane tells his sister the truth at last. Deb finds the one door in a fortress nobody locked, because nobody believed a ghost would walk through a wall. And Daniel discovers that a lock he built a decade ago is all that stands between a true believer and the lights going out across four countries. And in Zurich, Tessa Rourke - the cousin the family spent a lifetime overlooking - does the patient, unglamorous work of holding a fractured institution together, and makes a single assumption about the woman who raised her. It is the most human mistake a person who trusts systems more than people can make. The penultimate volume of The Rourke Correlation: a character-first thriller about inheritance as debt, protection as its own wound, and the one variable no model can hold. Book 5 of 6. The seat is filled. The reckoning is coming.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What they don't tell you is that you'll still be conscious. Every lamp in Hollowmere is burning someone's name. The city runs on soul-light. Sign the paper at the Hall of Records and your name lifts off you like sand through a fist. Your family gets a pension. Your sister gets an education. You get sixty years as a frequency in a copper pipe, keeping the streetlamps violet. The Church of the Mechanismus calls it transcendence. Lord Callum Vane calls it what it is. Two years locked in the Ravencrest Institute have left him one possession that matters: a stack of handwritten pages he calls the Record, filled with the names the city has agreed to forget. Cal can hear them. The Vane gift means the pipes have never sounded like metal to him. They sound like a choir. Then a man in a waxed canvas coat opens his door, says he was hired to steal a watch, and takes the witness instead. Fen has no use for martyrs. Cal has nothing but a list of the dead. Between them and whatever is buried under the Sovereign's Cradle stand a Church that has perfected the paperwork of erasure, the family that built the machine, and a clock that has not lost a second in sixty years. One of those things is going to stop. \*\*The Hollow Clock\*\* is Book One of the Hollow Clock Saga, a complete gothic gaslamp trilogy. Free to read in Kindle Unlimited. For readers of Freya Marske, C.L. Polk, and KJ Charles. - A city powered by bound souls, where the lamps are people- Slow-burn M/M romance between a locked-away aristocrat and the thief who took him- Dense, unhurried gothic atmosphere. This one takes its time before it runs.- Dark, and never hopeless. The saga ends with both of them still standing. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - If you loved Rachel Reid's Heated Rivalry or the ranch-against-old-money war of Yellowstone, you'll love Line of the Ball: rivals on opposing teams, a broke cowboy hired to get close, and a relationship neither of them was supposed to want.He was paid to break Julian Rosemont's heart. He wasn't supposed to want to keep it.Mason Caldwell has ninety days before the bank takes the ranch that raised him. Then a man in a suit turns up at the fence with enough money to kill the debt, if Mason will play a sport he has never touched.Julian Rosemont captains the rival club. He is also, by five generations of design, a product: the right school, the right name, the right blazer, and a father who has never once asked him what he wants. Nobody has.What starts as a rivalry becomes the first honest thing in either of their lives. Which would be fine, if Mason hadn't been hired to get close to him. By the time he understands what he's been used for, it's far too late for either of them.Line of the Ball is Book One of the Windward Cup Dynasty, a slow-burn M/M sports romance about debt, inheritance, and two men who each believe they are unlovable for opposite reasons. One of them owes everybody. The other has never been asked a question in his life.- Rivals to lovers, on opposing polo teams- Hired to get close: a meeting that was arranged, with feelings that weren't- A Texas cowboy who refuses to owe anyone anything- An heir who has never been asked what he wants- A happy ending, alwaysHeat: Explicit and open-door, including side couples. 18+.Book One of an ongoing series. Julian and Mason's story continues in Crossing the Line.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - He gave up a fortune for a man the world says he can't have. Now the world is watching to see if it was worth it.Mason Caldwell never had money. What he had was Julian Rosemont, the polo dynasty heir who walked away from millions to build a life with him, one falling-down rental house and one borrowed truck at a time.It should be enough. For a while, it almost is.Then the ranch that raised Mason gets thirty days to pay off a debt it can't cover. And the family Julian swore he'd left for good starts calling again, dangling everything he said he didn't need. A club owner wants Mason's name on a contract. A father wants Julian's signature on an inheritance. Both come with the same quiet promise: come back, and this all gets easier.They didn't choose each other just to spend their lives hiding from the people who'd rather they hadn't.Loving each other in private was easy. Loving each other in front of the cameras, the family, the old life still holding the door open, that's the line neither of them has crossed yet.They're about to.Crossing the Line is Book Two in the Windward Cup Dynasty, a slow-burn M/M sports romance about class, family, and choosing the life you actually want out loud, in public, no matter who's watching.- Opposites attract - blue-collar cowboy meets old-money heir- Coming out in the public eye- Found family you'll want to move in with- Guaranteed HEA - queer love, every genre, always a happy ending.…