Bøger af Michelle Manus

A woman with unimaginable power. A king hellbent on ruling the world. An ancient force that could mean salvation or destruction.The survivor of a brutal childhood, Clare Brighton craves the kind of wealth and notoriety that will mean the horrors of her past can never again touch her. With nothing but a battered guitar and a Songweaver's talent, she comes to the capital of the Faelhorn Provinces, determined to gain her place.But there is another, more dangerous power that dwells within Clare. An entity she calls the Song, it is ancient and fathomless...and no longer content to be held in the cage she has trapped it in. It is a power the ruthless Jackal King has long been searching for, and should he discover she possesses it, the cost will be far greater than her life.Clare has sworn that she will never again let anyone control her. But escaping the Jackal King's notice will require the one thing she never wanted to need: help. It will come first from the two lords who have taken her under their wing. Next from the second prince of Faelhorn, who Clare alone knows is not what he seems. And finally, from the Song itself.The Song has the strength to save her-if it doesn't destroy her first.

Just once, Nyx Fortuna would like something in her life to be easy...Nyx has finally managed to dismantle the magic keeping her from her missing memories, but things are a bit...fractured. Her mind keeps slipping into different points in her past, and she's not always aware of when the present is.The issue couldn't have come at a worse time, because she finally has a lead on the Kumir-the race of identical assassins who have hunted the Hidden to the brink of extinction-but following that lead involves another interstellar trip. Recognizing that covert operations on a foreign planet aren't a good idea with her current problems, Nyx reluctantly agrees to let her friends go without her.But when a malfunctioning memory combines with an unintended use of portal magic, Nyx ends up right where she shouldn't be. Complications prevent her from returning to Earth, leaving Nyx to navigate an alien metropolis while hoping her skipping memory doesn't get her killed.

Even the magically inclined know werewolves don't exist. So why is her new rescue dog suddenly taking human form?Ever since going sober, Meredith Townsend has kept busy by helping her friend clean up the mess left over when they took down Aspect Society's biggest boogeyman, Elijah Winters. When they find a dog locked in a basement at one of Elijah's old compounds, Meredith's magic immediately senses a lie. She knows it definitely isn't a dog, but she never expects a werewolf-since everyone knows they don't exist.Jensen King spent six months as Elijah Winters' captive while the sadistic Aspecter tried to discover the secrets of all things Shifter. Now that Jensen's free, he only has one goal: locate the other Shifters stolen from his pack before they get sold to the highest bidder at an underground magical auction. But his beautiful, suspicious rescuer isn't exactly easy to sneak away from. When it turns out she might have as much of a reason as him to want to bring down the auction, he proposes they work together.If they succeed, they might even have a chance to broker peace between the two magical societies...if they don't accidentally lead them into the first open war in centuries.