Bøger af Charles Sale

Even a ruler as powerful as Elizabeth Shaw cannot prevent the coming apocalypse on her own. This is why she has called on the magic of the ancients, summoning Earth's Protectors to Mont Saint-Michel in the middle of the storm of the century. She hopes to enlist them in a plan to stop her pathologically ambitious younger brother, Aedan, from destroying them all. With each passing hour, Aedan's powers grow and his forces gather. Soon he will be unstoppable, having all he needs to enslave Earth's inhabitants through a diabolical combination of magic and technology. Elizabeth and the Protectors have only one hope for stopping him: They must find Elizabeth's successor before Aedan does. Only the successor can prevent the coming disaster. The problem is...no one knows where the successor is.

Alexandra Ward knows little of the dangers that lie ahead or of the plans Aunt Elizabeth has for her. She hears the whispers that fill the halls of Byrnhelen when she passes, and she longs for the companionship of her best friend, Daniel. He has gone missing without a trace, and Alexandra knows secrets are being kept from her, secrets about Daniel and about who she is and what is expected of her. She wonders who to trust, who is friend and who is foe? Are Euwen

"Specialisten" er en humoristisk lille perle, som sætter gang i lattermusklerne.Charles "Chic" Sale blev født i 1885 i South Dakota og døde i 1936. Charles var skuespiller, men elskede at skrive. Inspireret af en tømrer ved navn Lem Putt, skrev Charles den humoristiske monolog "specialisten", som senere blev udgivet som bog. "Specialisten" blev en så stor succes, at Charles måtte bruge det næste lange stykke tid på at besvare fanbreve.