Oscar fantastica: Promesse vane
- 320 stron
- 12 godzin czytania






"Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life. By day, she works for an antiquities dealer, selling barely legal magical artifacts, and by night, she parties with her friends, savoring every pleasure Lunathion-otherwise known as Crescent City-has to offer. But it all comes crumbling down when a ruthless murder shakes the very foundations of the city-and Bryce's world. Two years later, her job has become a dead end, and she now seeks only blissful oblivion in the city's most notorious nightclubs. But when the murderer attacks again, Bryce finds herself dragged into the investigation and paired with an infamous Fallen angel whose own brutal past haunts his every step. Hunt Athalar, personal assassin for the Archangels, wants nothing to do with Bryce Quinlan, despite being ordered to protect her. She stands for everything he once rebelled against and seems more interested in partying than solving the murder, no matter how close to home it might hit. But Hunt soon realizes there's far more to Bryce than meets the eye-and that he's going to have to find a way to work with her if they want to solve this case. As Bryce and Hunt race to untangle the mystery, they have no way of knowing the threads they tug ripple through the underbelly of the city, across warring continents, and down to the darkest levels of Hel, where things that have been sleeping for millennia are beginning to stir.."-- Provided by publisher
A continuation of the story of Veronica and Caleb.
The third Will Trent novel, from the No. 1 Bestseller. Three and a half years ago former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton moved to Atlanta hoping to leave her tragic past behind her. Now working as a doctor in Atlanta's Grady Hospital she is starting to piece her life together. But when a severely wounded young woman is brought in to the emergency room, she finds herself drawn back into a world of violence and terror. The woman has been hit by a car but, naked and brutalised, it's clear that she has been the prey of a twisted mind. When Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Investigation Team returns to the scene of the accident, he stumbles on a torture chamber buried deep beneath the earth. And this hidden house of horror reveals a ghastly truth - Sara's patient is just the first victim of a sick, sadistic killer. Wrestling the case away from the local police chief, Will and his partner Faith Mitchell find themselves at the centre of a grisly murder hunt. And Sara, Will and Faith - each with their own wounds and their own secrets - are all that stand between a madman and his next crime...
Poznajcie Claire. Claire to dwudziestokilkuletnia matka małego człowieka, który urodził się w wyniku (nie)szczęśliwego zbiegu okoliczności. Czteroletni Gavin jest bowiem owocem pierwszej nocy spędzonej przez jego matkę z mężczyzną. Nieznanym mężczyzną, dodajmy… I nie chodzi tu o to, że Claire spędziła z nim noc pod przymusem, anonimowo. Tatuś Gavina nie uciekł od jego mamusi nad ranem, przerażony swoim czynem. Wręcz przeciwnie. Po prostu pewnej upojnej nocy w akademiku dwoje nietrzeźwych młodych ludzi zapałało do siebie niespodziewanym i gwałtownym uczuciem. Claire obudziła się pierwsza i to ona zwiała ze wspólnego łoża w obawie przed konsekwencjami — wiecie, miłość, związek, te sprawy… W efekcie nasza młoda bohaterka została sama z rosnącym brzuchem. Przerwała wielce obiecujące studia, zatrudniła się w barze jako kelnerka i postanowiła przeistoczyć się w matkę, choć predyspozycji do tego zajęcia nie posiadała żadnych. Claire ma jednak wierną przyjaciółkę Liz z gotowym pomysłem na pewien seksowny biznes i jedno marzenie — własny sklep ze słodkościami. A w tyle głowy kołacze jej mocne postanowienie, by gdzieś, kiedyś odnaleźć swego jednonocnego księcia, który raczył dostarczyć połowę genów małemu Gavinowi…
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