Bøger udgivet af Inspired Quill

Sixteen-year-old Chrissie's first love is a girl.But it's the eighties, and she fears rejection from her rural community, so her relationship remains secret. When her friend vanishes, Chrissie bears her heartache alone.Decades later, her long-lost love resurfaces, but all is not as it seems.It takes a global pandemic and a brush with death to spark the resolution Chrissie craves.Heartsound is a tale of unspoken truths, broken promises, almost-forgotten dreams, and hope.

The dragon of Kural is dreaming of a song that is not his. He stirs and tries to shrug, but his wings are pinned.Seventeen-year-old Emlin is about to become a fully-fledged crafter of dragon-inspired stained glass. Then her mother is murdered following a mysterious, nighttime trip to the palace.The Watch hasn't a clue who the murderer is, so Emlin vows to find the killer herself. A series of attacks on her and her sister glassmakers makes her suspect that the attacker is keen to destroy the glass crafthouse, an event that would weaken the island's connection to its dragon and leave it vulnerable.¿Dogged by a curious if charming scholar who can't keep his nose out of her business, she questions anyone her mother saw in the days before her death, finds herself breaking dragon-given laws, and learns things about her mother that call into question whether she'll ever become a glassmaker-assuming she lives long enough.

From homeless urchin to world-class adventurer, Alan Shaw has tackled magic, myths and machines, lost love and made one fatal mistake.Now, his past is catching up with him. Haunted by the murderous Mister Slay and his blood curse, Alan finds himself in constant pain, embittered by loss, and weighed down by regret. With his life as a globe-trotting Privateer at an end, Alan now works as London's best preternatural investigator, and moonlights as a police consultant for their "odder" cases. Alan is kept busy, drawn between both ends of the moral spectrum.Between criminal organisations, ancient relics coming to life in the British Museum, and a figure from his distant past threatening to take revenge on those he loves, it seems that danger is ever-eager to come to him.¿With excitement, dry wit, and a lot of heart comes this much-anticipated conclusion to an epic Steampunk trilogy.

A long-dead child.An artist who paints the fae.An ancient estate on a blood-filled land.The commission was close to Amelia's dream: a cosy cottage in Donegal over Christmas and the chance to paint the beautiful Glenveagh estate. But when the weather closes in and the country shuts down, a ritual begins - one that traps Amelia in its circles of magic.Stranded in a place where iron is power, her heart can no longer be trusted and the land itself is a weapon, Amelia's survival depends on unravelling the truth of a decades-old death. Even if it draws the same ancient danger to herself.

"When it comes to family, you're rich... and I'm dirt poor."Amid the intoxicating chaos of Winter Festival, attendant Dilly and Hedge Mage Fitch cross paths.After surviving Rin's wretched streets, Dilly aims to prove herself to Lady Elenia, who brought her back to Lac's Holding and blessed her with a new life of comfort and luxury. Fitch seeks vengeance for a loved one, killed by a liquor that makes one vulnerable to suggestion.But their separate goals are derailed when Dilly discovers Elenia's secret lover is the head of a too-ambitious kinship, and Fitch finds his own smuggler-family pressuring him into using his unique nudging abilities for mutinous deeds.When murmurs of treason break out in Lac's Holding, it becomes clear that only Dilly and Fitch know the truth.The question is how they can save the city when those they're loyal to stand in their way.

The supernatural world has ruptured.On the horizon looms a battle from which there is no return. A powerful band of deadly supernaturals has united, ready to reveal their existence to the natural world, and prepare to take their place at the head of humanity.By force.It will mean immediate and swift destruction of every society across the world. All that stands in their way is a small cadre of supernaturals from the Louisiana Bayou who have yet to be fully trained.To successfully make their stand, the novice supers will need to call on other paranormal beings who live in and around Savannah; allies from the darkest corners of the paranormal world. As lives are lost and the balance of power starts to tip, the young paranormals and their supernatural counterparts must dig in for a war that could change everything.When supers turn against supers, only the powerful will survive.

Sudden luck strikes the one person who won't share the news.It's a mega win on a weekly lotto ticket; a ton of cash.But even though Christina's howls of triumph scare the cat, she can't tell her stepdad Harrison. Not even when a frustrated, off-the-cuff retort to a co-worker sets her free from a newspaper job she no longer needs anyway.She fills notebook pages with bucket lists, but can't bring herself to just pick any. Wanting but not letting herself have, that's Christina all over. Motherless, practically raising Harrison instead of the other way around. For Christina, winning is what you hide so fate can't make it sour.But fate has other plans.She lucks into a newer, quirkier job (to hide from Harrison), and the new office opens a whole new world right on her doorstep.Bit by bit, Christina's horizon widens. A black and white photograph helps her to discover friends of the finest kinds. A tribe with eyes like hers.While she struggles with Harrison's addiction, and fights against all that she now has, fate wheels Christina on a 900-miles road trip to confront the young woman she could be, but can't yet face in the mirror.

Stuck in a city far from home, street kid Doniver fakes telling fortunes so he can earn a few coins to feed himself and his friends. Then the divine Powers smile on him when he accidentally delivers a true prediction for the prince.Concerned about rumors of treason, the prince demands that Doniver use his "magic" to prevent harm from coming to the king, and so Doniver is taken--dragged?--into the castle to be the royal fortune teller.Now Doniver must decide where the boundaries of honor lie, as he struggles to work convincing magic, fend off whoever is trying to shut him up, and stop an assassin, assuming he can even figure out who the would-be assassin is.All he wants is to survive long enough to go home to the Uplands, but it's starting to look as if that might be too much to ask...

"e;It's been a hell of a first day."e;Jon May has been the Governor of Elysium for a few hours, and he's already facing a belligerent Chief of Security, an ex-Operations Manager imprisoned for killing the previous Governor, and an amorphous energy mass that has its own agenda.So now Jon has to decide who to trust; his Security Chief will barely talk to him, and his only allies are people who, according to the Republic, are dangerous criminals.With less than 48 hours to delve into the shadows surrounding Elysium's recent but tumultuous past, May is about to uncover more about this job than he bargained for.

He never intended to be a jailer ...After years of travelling, responsible to no-one but himself, Steve has resolved to settle down. He gets a job, buys a house and persuades Liesel to move in with him.Life's perfect, until Liesel delivers her ultimatum: if he won't agree to start a family, she'll have to leave. He can't bear to lose her, but how can he face the prospect of fatherhood when he has no idea what being a father means? If he could somehow make her stay, he wouldn't have to choose and it would be a shame not to make use of the cellar.Will this be the solution to his problems, or the catalyst for his own unravelling?Praise for Anne Goodwin:A dark and disturbing tale of a man who appears ordinary on the surface, but is deeply damaged. Clever and chilling; [Underneath] is a story that will stay with you long after you've finished reading. - Sanjida Kay, author of Bone by Bone[Underneath] is a compelling, insightful and brave novel of doomed, twisted romance driven by a sustained and unsettling voice.- Ashley Stokes, author of The Syllabus of ErrorsThis secret tantalisingly grips the reader, gradually being pieced together bit by bit, so intrinsically and poignantly mapped out that I truly cannot praise this novel highly enough.- Isabelle on The Contemporary Small PressFiction delivered by a writer who knows not only how to craft her words but also what those words should be communicating.- Dr Suzanne Conboy-Hill in The PsychologistAn absorbing, clever and heartening debut novel.- Alison Moore, author of Booker-shortlisted The LighthouseI loved this book. Sugar and Snails is beautifully written and a truly impressive debut by Anne Goodwin. It reminded me a little of Claire Messud's The Woman Upstairs. The character of Di, at first frustrating, grows more endearing as you begin to understand her. Her friend Venus and lover Simon are well-drawn; there as foils to Di's story. A beautiful and gripping read.- Fleur Smithwick, author of How to make a FriendSugar and Snails is a brave and bold emotional roller-coaster of a read. Anne Goodwin's prose is at once sensitive, invigorating and inspired. I was hooked from the start and in bits by the end. Very much to be recommended.- Rebecca Root, actor and voice teacher

Alan Shaw is at it again.From homeless urchin to world-class adventurer, Alan has tackled magic, myths and machines, lost love and made one fatal mistake. In an effort to come to terms with what he has done, Alan heads into the East and disappears from the world.His new partner, the loyal and straight-talking pilot, Merry, might just bring him out of his darkness. Or maybe Alan's curse will take them both to places from which they can never return. Ancient dangers return to smother the world in sand, the demonic cult leader Volkert rises again, and Alan's past will come back to deliver a haymaker. But those are the least of his worries because, on the streets of London, Mister Slay is leaving a wake of fear and blood, daring Alan to return home.With his life as a Privateer taking him from China to Chicago, Egypt to the East End, the danger and wry wit keeps coming in this much-anticipated sequel to a Steampunk epic adventure.

"e;Those people are no-hopers."e;"e;And what does that make me?"e;In a bitterly divided nation where security trumps civil liberty, unemployed David is on the verge of sinking into the 'Zeroes' - a destitute underclass numbering millions. But then JobNet's advanced virtual reality world offers him a gateway to a worthwhile future, and a chance to rejoin society.But David is an unwitting pawn in a deadly conspiracy to topple the Government: he's the ideal carrier for an intelligent virus designed to shatter the system and set the Zeroes free.When the virus activates, chaos ensues and the Zeroes rise. David is left trapped inside a corrupted reality. If it doesn't shatter his sanity, the secret he finds there will change everything...Sometimes even a pawn can hold the balance of power.

Walking corpses and black-market liquor: the quiet life.Telt Phuul, Necromancer and Library Clerk, likes his days safe and predictable. Not for him the intrigues of the Viiminian Empire, a gothic monstrosity held together by sheer force of will.Until the Empire's dreaded secret police come knocking. Caught in a web of schemes in the diseased heart of Kuolinako, the underground Imperial capital, Telt can trust no-one. Not the Northern theocrats who abhor Necromancy, and certainly not the Grand Chancellor, whose iron-fisted rule has kept the old order alive that little bit longer.When one false step means torture and disappearance, this journey will change our Necromancer forever.

"e;Gabe and I are happy this way. We don't need anyone else in our lives."e;Mariana feels like a pawn in other people's games. Her birth mother is ill and opportunities for them to be reconciled are running out.Despite being adopted, Mariana has always felt secure with who she is. But both sides of her birth family are now closing in, and whatever she decides will irrevocably alter many lives; most of all the man and woman who created her.Of His Bones is about predestination and choices. It explores themes of familial love, identity and the powerful hold of the past. Set in the seascapes of East and North Yorkshire, this novel is the sister-book to The Last Time We Saw Marion.