Chasing the Dragon
9 best books like Chasing the Dragon (Justina Robson): Night Broken, Fire Touched, Wakenhyrst, The Shadowglass, Stolen, Out of Shadows, The Throwaway Children, Cele zece iubiri ale lui Nishino, An Echo of Things to Come
An unexpected phone call heralds a new challenge for Mercy. Her mate Adam’s ex-wife is in trouble, on the run from a stalker. Adam isn’t the kind of man to turn away a person in need—and Mercy knows it. But with Christy holed up in Adam’s house, Mercy can’t shake the feeling that something about...
Author | Patricia Briggs |
ISBN | 0425256766 |
Tensions between the fae and humans are coming to a head. And when coyote shapeshifter Mercy and her Alpha werewolf mate, Adam, are called upon to stop a rampaging troll, they find themselves with something that could be used to make the fae back down and forestall out-and-out war: a human child stolen...
Author | Michelle Paver |
ISBN | 1788549562 |
1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wakenhyrst. It is the home of Edmund Stearn and his family – a historian, scholar and land-owner, he's an upstanding member of the local community. But all is not well at Wake's End. Edmund dominates his family...
Author | Rin Chupeco |
ISBN | 1492660604 |
In the highly anticipated finale to the Bone Witch trilogy, Tea’s life—and the fate of the kingdoms—hangs in the balance
Tea is a bone witch with the dark magic needed to raise the dead. She has used this magic to breathe life into those she has loved and lost…and those who would join her...
Author | Kelley Armstrong |
ISBN | 0452285933 |
It was in Bitten, Kelley Armstrong's debut novel, that thirty-year-old Elena Michaels came to terms with her feral appetites and claimed the proud identity of a beautiful, successful woman and the only living female werewolf. In Stolen, on a mission for her own elite pack, she is lured into the net of...
Author | Jason Wallace |
ISBN | 1849390487 |
Set in Zimbabwe in the 1980s, just after the war for independence, a young English boy, Jacklin, is torn between his black friends at school and his sympathy for the colonial whites after witnessing the compulsory land seizures by Robert Mugabe's government.
But with an imminent visit by Robert...
Gritty, heartrending and unputdownable – the story of two sisters sent first to an English, then an Australian orphanage in the aftermath of World War 2. Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully called Jimmy Randall and has a baby boy by...
Cele zece iubiri ale lui Nishino
Author | Hiromi Kawakami |
ISBN | 9734653784 |
Cartea lui Hiromi Kawakami cuprinde marturisirile a zece femei si tot atitea povestiri din care, pornind de la frinturi de amintiri, cititorii pot recompune personalitatea fascinanta, greu de prins, magnetica a unui barbat. Fie ca este vorba despre legaturi adolescentine sau din amiaza vietii,...
An Echo of Things to Come
Author | James Islington |
ISBN | 0316274119 |
The second book in a glorious new fantasy trilogy by the next major force in commercial epic fantasy.
In the wake of the devastating attack on Ilin Illan, an amnesty has been declared for all Augurs - finally allowing them to emerge from hiding and openly oppose the dark forces massing...