Bøger af Jacquelyn Benson

When an old enemy resurfaces, Lily is forced to choose between friendship and fate in this special London Charismatics novella.In the wake of a devastating loss, Lily is about to receive an unwelcome visit from Jack Cannon, the uncrowned Lord of Limehouse.Sam's former boss is dangerously close to discovering the occult truth about the denizens of The Refuge, information he will ruthlessly exploit. Sam, obsessed with vengeance, is poised to walk straight into Cannon's trap.Only Lily knows what it will cost him.As war blackens the skies of Europe and newspapers grow with the lists of the dead, Lily takes to the gritty streets of the East End in a fight that will put all her skills to the ultimate test.To stop Sam from making a terrible mistake, Lily will have to betray him-and embrace a dark and terrifying truth about the nature of her charismatic power.Return to a gothic and mysterious Edwardian London with this thrilling London Charismatics novella set between the events of The Shadow of Water and Bridge of Ash.

An arcane horror emerges from battle and blood. To stop it, Lily must risk becoming everything she fears.In a Europe devastated by four years of war, a platoon of elite Italian soldiers is horrifically and mysteriously slaughtered. Strangford's arcane ability can uncover the truth behind the massacre, but a violent fate stalks him from the trenches. It's up to Lily to change its course.To save the man she loves, she must gather allies scattered by war, grief and betrayal. Her quest will take her from a landscape of wire and guns to ice-dimmed caverns and an ancient forest haunted by a threat far more terrible than mere wolves.For there is more at stake than Strangford's life, or even the outcome of the war. The future itself is threatened by monsters from the far side of time, born from the bloodsoaked work of Lily's worst enemy. Everything hinges on opening herself to the darkest potential of a power that could tear her apart-and on who is left to pull her back together again.

England''s deadliest secrets are at risk-and so is the man Lily is about to marry.As World War I rages across Europe, a military officer is brutally murdered in a remote English country house. Lord Strangford is the only suspect.To clear his name, Lily must unravel the secrets that surround the corpse. It''s a quest that takes her from the remote Yorkshire coast to the heart of the empire as a brilliant and relentless police inspector haunts her every move.But the dead man isn''t who he seemed to be. The search for truth-and the real killer-plunges Lily into a game of secrets tied to the highest echelons of the government. To expose the heart of it, she must pull together friends scattered by loss and conflict, pushing the limits of an arcane power she''s far from understanding.The fate of the war might just hang in the balance... along with the life of the man Lily loves.Bridge of Ash is the thrilling continuation of The Charismatics historical fantasy series. Buy it now and slip back to an Edwardian England rife with supernatural mystery and suspense.

London, 1914. Someone is draining the blood of the city’s mediums. Lily Albright knows who’s next. The unacknowledged bastard daughter of the Earl of Torrington, Lily is haunted by visions of the future that she can never change. When she foresees the death of her closest friend, there's something familiar about the details. They're just like the circumstances of a series of recent murders.If she can find the killer before he strikes, maybe this time she can finally thwart fate and save someone she loves. As Lily's investigation takes her to a bedchamber where one of society’s most desirable widows lies dead, she realizes she can’t do this alone. She needs help from the reclusive Lord Strangford, a man haunted by his own unusual powers. To pursue the path of a monster, Lily must ask Strangford to face unimaginable horrors – and is compelled to reveal her darkest secrets to a man she has little reason to trust.Somewhere in the city lies a murderer hell-bent on an unspeakable harvest, one that could reshape the future of the human race. To stop him, Lily must face a past rife with betrayal—and embrace the power she has spent her entire life trying to escape. 

A dangerous prophecy threatens Edwardian London... and it begins with a murder.Lily Albright can see the future, and it looks like hell.In an England on the brink of war, Lily is plagued by psychic visions of the cataclysmic destruction of London. An ancient prophecy is coming to fruition, and it starts with the gruesome discovery of a corpse in the sewers.To save her city, Lily must untangle a web of conspiracy and violence. She''ll need the help of all of her fellow Charismatics-the men and women who know "the impossible things". That includes the enigmatic Lord Strangford, whose ability to see into the darkest corners of Lily''s soul threatens to tear their relationship apart.From the gaslamps and gutters of the Limehouse to the champagne-soaked ballrooms of St. John''s Wood, Lily races to expose a plot that could bring the British empire to its knees. But changing fate and preventing an apocalypse will put Lily''s charismatic powers to the ultimate test.

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