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Burn Of The Everflame [Bok / Pocket]

<b>EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD.</b><br/><br/><b>The first in a young adult dystopian trilogy from the author of <i>These Violent Delights</i>. In a near-future where life has moved to glistening virtual reality and everyone above the poverty line resides 'upcountry', an ousted corporate soldier races to clear her name - with the very enemy who is truly guilty.</b>

Husbands Don and Rodney have lived a good long life. Together they've experienced the highest highs of love and family, and lows so low that they felt like the end of the world.<br/><br/>Now, the world is ending for real. A wandering blackhole is coming for Earth and in a month everything and everyone they've ever known will be gone.<br/><br/>Suddenly, after 40 years together, Don and Rodney are out of time. They're in a race against the clock to make it from Maine to Washington State to take care of some unfinished business before it's all over.<br/><br/>On the road they meet those who refuse to believe death is coming and those who rush to meet it. But there are also people living their final days as best they know how-impromptu weddings, bright burning bonfires, shared meals, new friends.<br/><br/>And as the blackhole draws near, among ball lightning and under a cracked moon in a kaleidoscope sky, Don and Rodney will look back on their lives and ask if their best was good enough.<br/><br/>Is it enough to burn bright if nothing comes from the ashes?

1883. Agrigento, Sicily. A city of spires and now broken hopes and bodies&hellip; With the orsine destroyed, Cairndale lies in ruins, and Marlowe has vanished. His only chance of rescue lies in a fabled second orsine &ndash; long-hidden, thought lost - which might not even exist. But when a body is discovered in the shadow of Cairndale, Charlie and the Talents realize there is even more at stake than they&apos;d feared. For a new drughr has arisen, ferocious, horned, seemingly able to move in their world at will &ndash; and it is not alone. A malevolent figure, known only as the Abbess, desires the dust for her own ends. And deep in the world of the dead, a terrible evil stirs - an evil which the corrupted dust just might hold the secret to reviving, or destroying forever. So the dark journey begun in Ordinary Monsters surges forward, from the sinister underworld of the London exiles, to the roar of the streetmarkets in nineteenth-century Alexandria, to the sunlit silences of the Dalmatian coast. Against bone witches, mud glyphics, and a house of twilight that exists in a netherworld all its own, the Talents must work together - if they are to have any hope of staving off the world of the dead, and saving their long-lost friend.

<i>The raven, crane, and firebird each chose a tribe of man, granting humans heavenly magic.</i><br/><i>But power in man's hand caused endless wars for</i><i> land.</i><br/><br/><i>With mankind's destruction, the birds perished taking with them their magic.</i><br/><i>Magic is now rare, war common.</i><br/><br/>The discarded daughter of an emperor, Khamilla Zahr-zad is raised with her mother's nomadic tribe until a violent raid ends that peaceful life. Amid the chaos of death, the heavenly magic of nur awakens within her, granting her the power to wield a cosmic light. Khamilla suddenly goes from outsider to weapon, finally accepted into her father's court. Now worthy, she trains in combat and poisons, pledging loyalty to his throne.<br/>But tragedy strikes again and when her clansmen are defeated by a rival empire, Khamilla vows lasting vengeance as she escapes. However Khamilla is not alone - for something shadows her, feeding her darkness...<br/><br/>Hiding her identity, Khamilla infiltrates the enemy's army academy. She studies jinn, magic, and martial arts from cutthroat mystic monks in a bid to bring down an empire from within. However, through her studies Khamilla begins to question her father's teachings of war and rule.<br/><br/>With war escalating across kingdoms and a twisted magic spreading, Khamilla is torn between two impossible choices: <b>revenge or freedom.</b>

<b>The stunning sequel to the award-winning <i>Talonsister</i>, full of romance and treachery, powerful magic and devastating choices. Perfect for fans of Andrea Stewart, John Gwynn and Samantha Shannon.</b><br/><br/>The Othanim have conquered Brittletain. Their murderous leader, Icaraine, plans to feed Brittletain's queens to her monstrous son. But total victory over the Othanim's ancient enemy, the griffins, still eludes her. If Brittletain's resistance, led by Princess Epona, can secure an alliance with the griffins, they may still stand a chance.<br/><br/>Envoy Kaeto has returned to the Imperium, hiding Felldir and Belise in a ruined castle. He believes both his friends and his attempt to murder Gynid Tyleigh have escaped the empress's notice. Yet secrets are not so easy to keep in the Imperium. Kaeto will do anything to protect the people he loves - and so finds himself en route to Brittletain as ambassador to the Othanim.<br/><br/>Leven, Cillian and Ynis have spent the last two years tracking Ynis's griffin sister, T'rook, a prisoner of Tyleigh. Meanwhile, Leven's health is deteriorating, and Cillian - exiled and disgraced - is tormented by strange voices, who tell him of the return of the mythic Green Man to Brittletain.<br/><br/>There is no hope for humanity in a world ruled by Icaraine. But the price of defeating her might be almost too heavy to bear.