Bøger af Susan Forest

From the award-winning series comes the final chapter of sisterhood, survival, redemption, and love.TO HIDE THE TRUTHTO FLEE THE PASTTO REDEEM LOVE Unrest is in the land; war is brewing. Ghosts gather, lured by death. Highborn magiel Rennika Falkyn cannot let herself be drawn into this war, this insidious politics between kings, this heedless exploitation by her sisters. She has created a life with her husband and children in order to hide her shameful past, and she vows to protect it with all her being. But when Rennika's rebel sister Meg-deprived of her spellcasting ability-appears in search of help, Rennika fears for the safety of her secrets. Afraid of blackmail, she succumbs to Meg's plea to track down a mysterious child and is drawn into a labyrinth of inky caverns and magically induced glimpses of her future. A future where her husband's love for her is shaken by the revelation of who Rennika truly is; where Janat must choose between sobriety and the life of her child; and where Meg must come to grips with what it means to live a life as a magiel without magic. Gathering of Ghosts completes the award-winning epic tale of three sisters and their continuing family saga of addictions, survival, revenge, and redemption in an empire where magic is enslaved. Is their family bond strong enough to overcome past deceit and betrayal? To stop a king obsessed with subjugating seven realms in his drive to vanquish his family's curse? And can Rennika overcome the stigma of her past crimes, and be redeemed at last, by love?

The arrival of a new doctor is welcome on a backwater agricultural planet, especially for Amanda, the local translator, who'd enjoy having another professional woman in their quiet settlement. But when Amanda takes Karen to inoculate the local alien population against human-borne bugs, the murder of a young alien mother and Karen's subsequent apprehension of the woman's children releases a cascade of repercussions: moral, legal, and lethal. The consequences force Amanda to face her personal contribution to genocide and planetary destruction. First published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, this intelligent, thought-provoking, 10,000 word novelette gives no easy answers to the problem of man's heedless expansion across --and destruction of--every landscape he encounters.