Bøger af Katya Mills

Set in Chicago in 1999, four friends carry their broken hearts into the new century. Busking, drinking to keep warm, couch surfing...amidst a landscape of dot-com era corporate growth and nihilism. Walk alongside them in this cool and captivating story of love and music, heartache, misfortune, and redemption. An honest portrayal of a disaffected generation coming of age, from the mind of Katya Mills, author of Grand Theft Life, Maze, and Girl Without Borders.

In a modern day American city, there are those who track and hunt down humans for their fear. They are indiscernible from you and me. A young woman - with attitude - in her mid-twenties, Ame, has fallen in with them. Her abduction was foretold by the voices in her head. She has the same light in her eyes that marks them. In this sequel to Katya Mills' urban fantasy, Daughter of Darkness, Ame has fallen in love with a young man who shares the dark gift. He skateboards into her life and they roam the streets together. Conflicted by her own violent nature, she has become nevertheless intoxicated by the ways. She thirsts after 'the tangy energetic'. A death dealer of a different kind prowls around the boarding house where Ame and her boyfriend live. Meanwhile her best friend, Bless, vies for her attention. Hendrix, a bloodhound for tracking fear, inadvertently leads Ame to Kell, a kindred spirit in the grips of a terrible addiction. She takes her little sister with the green eyes under her wing. Just as Ame seems to have found her rhythm in the chaos surrounds her, someone very close to her disappears. In her search for her loved one she uncovers a secret, revealed on the tapes of a security camera, which threatens to uproot her, once again.

Chicago. Follow the paths of three young lovers at the turn of the millennium. Working-class and degenerate-labelled youth move across the urban landscape effortlessly at night, suffering the depths to which culture has sunk; looking for refuge, fearless in love. Will is a young man with big dreams. Intelligent, sensitive, compassionate, and determined to learn the code of the streets. A young woman has won his heart, but life gets complicated. There is another woman pursuing Will who comes on like a cyclone, jaded by her lost childhood and track record of abusive relationships. This is a story of youth who live and love large in the shadow of the generation before them. Raised on punk rock, grunge, hip-hop, and high fructose corn-syrups. Praying not to be reduced to blind carbon copies. This is Girl Without Borders, by independent author Katya Mills. Her debut in literary fiction. Get in on the ground floor and discover a compelling new voice in modern American literature!