Bøger af Karen Payton Holt

Doctor Connor is the hero of the Fire & Ice Series: Awakening, Survival, Earth Walker, Heart of Stone, and Invasion. Think 'Twilight' meets 'Game of Thrones', with a dark twist, and you are in the right mindset to enter the world of Fire & Ice.Earth Walker is BOOK THREE and the adventure continues, accelerating into the unknown as all thrilling rides do! Buckle up and hold on tight.Two years have passed since Rebekah gave birth to the hybrid child, Seren. Her development continues to scare and fascinate Connor and Rebekah.Now the London Hive vampires know a hybrid birth is possible, they become restless; Connor is being pressed hard for answers and Julian is losing control at council hearings.Connor and Anthony ruthlessly enforce the twenty-five mile exclusion zone around the eco-shelter community Seren and Rebekah still call home. The body count is mounting and something has to crack under the pressure... but, when the implosion comes, Connor is blindsided. The attack comes from places he could never imagine.As events spiral out of control, two groups journey across continents and come together in a last ditch rescue effort - each drawn to the eye of the storm. Julian can't dissuade Connor from his chosen course, where recklessness crosses the boundary into fatalistic. The shock waves of discovery shatter Connor's world. Everything outside the London Vampire Hive is unpredictable, brutal even; the fate of humans, Greg and Seth, are tied to that of Julian and Connor, and the stakes become overwhelming when Connor's psychic connection to Seren is infiltrated by an unknown presence. Fighting for their lives is the spector hanging over them all. 'Succeed or die trying' becomes the grim mantra which haunts them. and Principal Julian is losing control at council hearings.Even though, Connor and Anthony ruthlessly enforce the twenty-five mile exclusion zone around the eco-shelter community Seren and Rebekah still call home, attacks from disgruntled hive members are growing in both frequency and ferocity. Seren's growth rate accelerates in response, as though her survival instinct knows that younglings are vulnerable. The body count is mounting and something has to crack under the pressure... but, when the implosion does come, Connor is blindsided. The attack comes from places he could never imagine.As events spiral out of control, two groups journey across continents and come together in a last ditch rescue effort - each drawn to the eye of the storm. Julian can't dissuade Connor from his chosen course, where recklessness crosses the boundary into fatalistic. The shock waves of discovery shatter Connor's world. Everything outside the London Vampire Hive is unpredictable, brutal even; the fate of the human Marines, Greg and Seth, are tied to that of Julian and Connor, and the stakes become overwhelming when Connor's psychic connection to Seren is infiltrated by an unknown presence. Fighting for all their lives is the specter hanging over them all. 'Succeed or die trying' becomes the grim mantra which haunts them.

Nothing can hold back the tide of change.Only four of the ten vampire hives in Britain still exist - others have imploded under the weight of the growing human food shortage - but still, Connor's work on a blood substitute, designed to liberate humans from vampire rule, meets with stubborn resistance.Principal Julian, Connor, and every vampire of status, become so focused on their own plans, that they are blindsided by a global uprising. Feral vampires, like a plague of locusts, sweep across Europe from east to west, until all that stands in their way is the English Channel. Malachi's desperate plea for help galvanises Connor into action, taking him on a treacherous mission to Egypt to rescue his maker which brings home the devastating impact of the coming invasion.Enemies in the shadows, bearing grudges that span decades, conspire to bring down Doctor Connor once and for all, using the army of the undead which no one can defeat. Julian, Connor and Rebekah face the threat head on, but with traitors inside the gates, every move they make accelerates them towards an explosive catastrophe.When ferals cross the seabed, Connor's world spirals into the abyss, death and destruction stalk him and those he loves, and there can be no winners in the final battle.

Doctor Connor is the hero of the Fire & Ice Series: Awakening, Survival, Earth Walker, Heart of Stone, and Invasion. But all nightmares begin somewhere, and for him, it began in 1910, London - when the city was a mad melting pot of trolley buses, cars, and bicycles, but a few gentlemen hung on to carriages as their preferred mode of transport. London, 1910:Bram Stoker's Dracula had made barely a ripple in the pool of human consciousness, and it would be another 12 years before Nosferatu breathes life into a vampire on the big screen. Doctor Connor Sanderson wakes up feeling… unusual. And everything he knows about the world spirals out of control.Only three scenarios wade through his petrified brain; he is descending into the vortex of insanity, he is dying, or something so terrifying is crawling through his body, that he wishes he was dying.As Connor battles with the demons rising inside, a series of gruesome deaths in London lead the police to his door. The holes in the fabric of his memory torment him as Connor fears he has become a monster. He cannot even confide in his best friend, Reginald Cranham, son to Lord and Lady Cranham - how do tell someone you can hear their heartbeat and the blood cells rushing through their veins are a symphony of delight?A mysterious bony figure, with eyes like pools of ice, hovers on the edges of his consciousness, and seems to hold the answers Connor is looking for.But can Connor trust him, when he can't even trust himself?

Doctor Connor is the hero of the Fire & Ice Series: Awakening, Survival, Earth Walker, Heart of Stone, and Invasion. But all nightmares begin somewhere, and for him, it began in 1910, London - when the city was a mad melting pot of trolley buses, cars, and bicycles, but a few gentlemen hung on to carriages as their preferred mode of transport. London, 1910:Bram Stoker's Dracula had made barely a ripple in the pool of human consciousness, and it would be another 12 years before Nosferatu breathes life into a vampire on the big screen. Doctor Connor Sanderson wakes up feeling… unusual. And everything he knows about the world spirals out of control.Only three scenarios wade through his petrified brain; he is descending into the vortex of insanity, he is dying, or something so terrifying is crawling through his body, that he wishes he was dying.As Connor battles with the demons rising inside, a series of gruesome deaths in London lead the police to his door. The holes in the fabric of his memory torment him as Connor fears he has become a monster. He cannot even confide in his best friend, Reginald Cranham, son to Lord and Lady Cranham - how do tell someone you can hear their heartbeat and the blood cells rushing through their veins are a symphony of delight?A mysterious bony figure, with eyes like pools of ice, hovers on the edges of his consciousness, and seems to hold the answers Connor is looking for.But can Connor trust him, when he can't even trust himself?