Bøger af Miranda Kate

The only way to get back home is to play ... The GameA chase through time. An elusive opponent. A suspected betrayal. Will David ever see home again - or did his girlfriend set him up for this?"He might not have caught the Jester, but he's accomplished one thing: he's managed to be in the same time and place as him. Can he do it again?"David Sinclair wants to get back home to his own time, but to do so he has to catch a man who calls himself The Jester - even though there's nothing funny about him.The tentative mental connection they share enables David to track his antagonist, but catching him proves difficult when The Jester is able to step into random people and appear as them.Rob, a friend David makes in one of the parallel times, works out a successful trap, but, once caught, The Jester isn't amused they've joined forces and makes them both play again, with devastating results for Rob.Led through dark dystopian times, David tries to work out if his suspicions are correct: Is his girlfriend working with The Jester? Did she recruit David to play his depraved games? But finding out the truth isn't easy when you're slipping through time.Described as Inter-dimensional hide and seek by one reader, The Game is book one in a dark, sci-fi fantasy series, which gives a new meaning to time travel."You will not come across so well-drawn a villain as The Jester, he is creepy, unexpected, and amorally disturbing. Through him, the author creates a sense of evil that is both frightening and intriguing, like a cobra waiting to strike." - Michael Wombat, author of The Raven's Wing and Fog.

This is book two in the series of Tricky's Tales - make sure to read book one, Dead Lake, first.Tricky by name, Tricky by nature¿¿A kidnapping. A conversation with a cat and a flock of birds. A journey into danger. Is Tricky rescuing a friend, or being led to her death?Buggeration! Without knowing it she'd been recruited into unearthing Carter's bloody network, just as The Baron wanted!When Lucien Dufray's cat and flock of birds turn up at Tricky's cabin, she knows something's wrong. But when her crystal ball shows her one thing and Adric tells her another, Tricky becomes suspicious - which might be her natural state, but there was nothing natural about Dufray's disappearance. Adric wants her to find him, but had Dufray been kidnapped or had he turned traitor?Between her mother's jade calling to her in the forest of Ferriston, The Rabble, an untrustworthy fae collective directing her to the Unsailable Sea, and her spy glass showing her Dimitry Stanislav, one of her mother's murderers, Tricky is confused.The only witnesses to Dufray's exodus were his menagerie, so Tricky's best friend Annie sends for an old friend, Nathan Rothschild, who can communicate with cats, and her ex-girlfriend, Safa Odeh, who can communicate with birds. Together they try and piece together what happened that night.What they uncover is a plot deeper than the network's underground bunkers, with more twists than Tricky's sexual desires. Will she find Dufray, or will she risk capture? Either way she needs to keep her wits about her and remember she's the tricky one.Dead Lake is a dark paranormal fantasy novel set a few hundred years from now in a post-apocalyptic world. After a massive shift of the tectonic plates decimated the world and its population, life on the remaining landmass has returned to simple living, with money, rulers and religion no longer tolerated.