Bøger af Nikki McCormack

At five years old, Kasiel was found with the pointed ends of his ears cut off. Despite that brutal start, he's lived twelve peaceful years with the man who took him in. Keeping his hair long over his mutilated ears helps him hide the fact that he is Vanrian, a child of the enemy. Everything changes when mercenaries arrive hunting for Kasiel. The last people he expects to come to his rescue are Vanrian soldiers, one of whom claims to be his spirit brother. They plan to take him across the war zone to deliver him to his real father, a man whose name strikes terror in his enemies.With his secret exposed, Kasiel can't return to his old home. This is his chance to find out who he was supposed to be. It means traveling to a foreign land where they have unusual psychic abilities he may share. It also means leaving behind everything he's ever cared about. If he is to survive, he will need to learn their language and culture and earn his place in their society.Meanwhile, the man who cut Kasiel's ears will do anything to keep him out of his true father's hands, even if it means killing him.

The Silverblood Brotherhood wants Raven dead. Even the law of the land allows their doctrine to dictate her fate. It's beginning to look like letting the Brotherhood win may be the only way to protect those she loves.If only she could change the laws that currently deny her protection. But to do that, she would need to evade the Silverblood hunters long enough to gain the favor of a king. A daunting task for someone who still hasn't figured out the complexities of social expectations. With her life hanging in the balance, it might still be worth trying.

Raven could almost enjoy this life where her biggest concern is chasing off beasts that stray too close to town, but the silver-eyed shadow haunting her sleep has her on edge.Then a man she never expected to see again warns her that the Silverblood Brotherhood is hunting her once more. His words confirm her suspicions that her nocturnal visitor is more than a mere nightmare.The only way to protect her new home now is to leave it, but she has nowhere to go until the discovery of an item that belonged to her mother opens a door for someone else to enter her dreams. Someone who might be able to help her if she can survive long enough to reach him.

Raven was eight when her parents were murdered. Now it's happened again. Her guardian dead. Their home destroyed. She can hunt and fight, but life in isolation hasn't prepared her for survival outside the forest.The magic within her makes her a target for execution by the Silverblood Brotherhood, an institution that regulates such powers with an iron fist. Having never spoken to a stranger before, how can she hope to navigate a world where anyone might turn her in for that magic? Her guardian dreamed of living someplace where Raven would be safe and accepted. Is there a chance she can find that on her own, or will the Brotherhood find her first?

She is The Keeper.That which is lost, she will find.She resides in the body of an Endless woman, but is not one of them.That which is forsaken, she will cherish.She exists to collect the spirits of gods and the rarest demons upon their death. That is her purpose. It has always been so.That which is forgotten, she will remember.She does not remember where she came from or why she must do the things she does.That which is, she will keep.But when she meets an exiled Endless warrior in the Undercity, something starts to awaken within her stolen body. Something that compels her to go with him. Something that should be dormant.

Gargoyles don't interact with people. So, when one visits Mira on the manor tower, she isn't sure how to respond. There's something comforting about its presence though, especially when it follows her on her way to meet her future husband.At seventeen, she doesn't feel ready to marry. A political marriage tearing her away from Captain Marikashi, whom she secretly loves, was once her greatest fear. Now the captain has been called to war, leaving her with the gargoyle and her husband-to-be.Fearing for the captain and dreading her future, Mira turns to her unusual companion for support. As her bond with the gargoyle grows she begins discovering strange new powers granted to her by her beastly companion. But those powers come with a price that will make her marital woes look trivial. A price that she and the gargoyle will soon have to pay.

Feisty teenage thief Maeko and her maybe-more-than-friend Chaff have scraped out an existence in Victorian London's gritty streets, but after a near-disastrous heist leads her to a mysterious clockwork cat and two dead bodies, she's thrust into a murder mystery that may cost her everything she holds dear.Her only allies are Chaff, the cat, and Ash, the son of the only murder suspect, who offers her enough money to finally get off the streets if she'll help him find the real killer.What starts as a simple search ultimately reveals a conspiracy stretching across the entire city. And as Maeko and Chaff discover feelings for each other neither was prepared to admit, she's forced to choose whether she'll stay with him or finally escape the life of a street rat. But with danger closing in around them, the only way any of them will get out of this alive is if all of them work together.

Maeko only wants to protect the people she cares about. Somehow, that goal has taken her from living a life as a pickpocket on the streets of London trying to pay off her mum's debt, to becoming deeply enmeshed in rising hostilities between the Pirates and the Literati.Now she has offers from both sides to help protect her loved ones. But things have gotten more dangerous. All around her the Pirates and Lits are hard at work on ways to destroy each other. Meanwhile, things are spiraling out of control with Chaff and Ash.With Macak as her one constant companion, Maeko is going to have to decide for herself who she will trust. She needs to be at her most clever to survive this and she's going to need someone's help to keep from getting caught in the crossfire.

After over a century imprisoned in stone statues, the dragons have devised a plan to regain their freedom. Unbeknownst to humankind, they placed the power to begin that process in Dephithus, the beloved heir to the throne of Imperious.Followers of the daenox-a dark power that was also imprisoned-have learned of the dragons' plans. On his sixteenth birthday, they give Dephithus a cruel gift of their own. A gift meant to thwart the dragons. A gift that will change his life, and his world, forever.

Book two in the Elysium's Fall dark fantasy duology.Raine is caught between the dark power of the daenox and the balancing power of the dragon web. She inherited her parent's memories-both good and bad-and their enemies: Kyouin with his daemon army and the Death Dragon, Theruses.The other dragons are her best chance at defeating those enemies, but they have gone into hiding, leaving humanity to deal with the daemons alone. She must find the dragons and convince them to help stop the daemon army before it's too late. If it isn't too late already.

Ascard power can strengthen, heal, and create. It also has great potential to destroy. Indigo's country restricts the use of ascard, so she channels her ability into the healing arts to avoid drawing attention. An orphan from a disgraced family, she struggles to find her place in society. Then a mysterious stranger from a neighboring country asks for her help escaping his prison so he can rejoin the fight to overthrow his emperor. His devotion to his cause and the passion behind his cool arrogance stir something in her. Does she dare use her power in forbidden ways to help him and risk being put to death as a traitor like her father?

Marked as a traitor to her own country, Indigo must look elsewhere for help if she is going to save Lyra. While Yiloch rushes back to the capital to prepare his empire for battle, Indigo turns to the least likely place to build an army of her own.The Kudaness, split apart by intertribal rivalries, are still bound together by several things, including their hatred of her people and their belief that using ascard is an affront to their gods. Even if they forgive her those sins, she faces the challenge of convincing them to go to war on behalf of their Lyran neighbors.If she succeeds, they will face a seemingly untouchable enemy and somewhere out there, Myac is still hunting them.

Yiloch stands accused of a terrible crime against Indigo''s country. She wants nothing more than to prove the accusations false, but the evidence puts blood on his hands.While trying to protect the Lyran prince from the swift descent of Caithin justice, Indigo uncovers the workings of an enemy willing to do anything to protect his secrets. In desperation, she unleashes wild power that strands Yiloch deep in the desertof Kudan. Now she must find Yiloch before Caithin declares war on Lyra.To make matters worse, a lethal new enemy is marching on Lyra. An army wielding magic unlike anything they have faced before.