Bøger af Timothy Patrick Means

A powerful sorcerer, traveling onboard a private yacht, sailing to an unknown destination. Stannis, the master of magic. With him he has brought Heather Taylor and her son Noah. Over these past weeks, Heather has struggled to learn magical incantations in strange languages. She must become a mistress of magic as quickly as possible if she is to save the Bishop sisters, Melissa and Rachel, who have been encased in magical sarcophagi to protect them from Tom Taylor's evil spells. They will reunite in Paris with old friends Sterling, Alexandria, and Achilles and together brave the famous Parisian catacombs and the dragon who guards ancient magic.A battle between good and evil will be fought. And this time not even the psychic Sterlin knows the outcome.

Two families locked together in a centuries-old struggle of good versus evil. Which family will prevail? Stannis, one of the most powerful wizards in the world, has been defeated by Tom Taylor, and now lies near death. But before they can save him, Sterling and his new ally Alexandra must find him.In the meantime, Tom Taylor continues his assault on Melissa Bishop's family, delivering a deadly trap to her home. Taylor's newest targets are Melissa's twin sons. How do they fit into his plot to take over the magical universe? Can they survive this battle of good over evil, or will all be lost?

Two families locked together in a centuries-old struggle of good versus evil. The Taylor and the Bishop families have both been cursed by an evil wizard and are doomed to play out a savage struggle. As children, the Bishop sisters and their mother conquered the evil wizard, but now, as the two girls reach adulthood, a new threat has arisen, and the fight is about to become even more deadly.Tom Taylor has vowed to avenge his family's honor, erase all members of the Bishop family, and become the most powerful wizard of all time. Melissa Bishop is now grown with twin 13-year-old sons; she wants only to live in peace and forget the horrible experiences of her childhood. But when Tom is released from prison, she must call upon her old allies, Sterling and Stannis, to help her defeat Tom once and for all. The Bishops' Struggle is the first book in the new Bishops' Resolve trilogy, the second part of the evolving tale begun in the first three books of The Bishops' Sacrifice series.

MARTIN WOKE UP THINKING it was just another average Saturday morning, nothing extraordinary. After breakfast, he planned to cut the lawn, as usual, and when he finished the yard work he would relax in his hammock, have a cold beer, and fall asleep smelling the freshly cut grass clippings. But when he got up that morning, he noticed a bright red spot on his right hand, which made him think perhaps something had bitten him. He felt sick to his stomach. He hated spiders and killed them every chance he got. If a spider had bitten him, he hoped it wasn't a brown recluse; if that was the case, he'd better see a doctor to have it examined. As he looked closely at the mark, it didn't look or feel like a spider bite. It looked more like a rash. He felt light-headed and dizzy without warning, so he held onto the bathroom counter to stabilize himself. Then, taking him by surprise, he heard a commanding voice in his head saying: Taylor, you have been chosen to fulfill your destiny to sacrifice the innocent.He shook his head to regain his senses, but nothing seemed to work; he felt his body and mind being taken over by the intrusion of a dark force.Taylor, I command you to obey. He felt his will and control start to wane. As he looked at his reflection in the mirror, a blackness appeared inside the bathroom. It completely enveloped him, and he couldn't resist its power.He was no longer himself and surrendered to whatever evil had captured him. Soon his words and thoughts were no longer his own. There in the mirror, instead of his reflection, he saw something evil looking back at him, something that moved within his consciousness. He knew all was lost. Words flowed from him without his conscious will, and without any resistance, he said, "What is your command, Master?"Once he surrendered his consciousness, he began to see things he couldn't have believed possible: what was once invisible such as time and other dimensions. He also saw humanity through the eyes of his new guest. He began to understand the frailty of man, who was a weak, pathetic, selfish creature. Being empowered by the darkness gave him a new understanding, and the world in which he lived became nothing to him. Only now did he know what the creature was, and he accepted his guest with a willing admission of defeat. While this evil one named Tobias haunted his thoughts, he received a history lesson from the ancient source, who was prone to curse man as he talked freely about what he planned to do once set free in his new body.After Martin surrendered to his new master, something unexpected happened. The dark creature was no longer just a faceless voice in the blackness. Martin started to see the figure of a wretched old man. From behind the curtain that separated the two worlds, he was able to barely discern the shape of his master as he spoke-this creature who now inhabited Martin's existence.