Book Preview GUY GAVRIEL KAY is the author of ten novels: The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire, and The Darkest Road (which comprise The Fionavar Tapestry); Tigana; A Song for Arbonne; The Lions of Al-Rassan; Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors (which comprise The Sarantine Mosaic); The Last Light of the Sun; and, most … Read more
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Book Preview The sky wept. Sorrow flooded the earth. Starling opened her mouth to catch the raindrops falling through the hole in her cordon. The Seedbearer’s transparent sanctuary was pitched over the bonfire like a camper’s cozy tent. It sealed out the deluge, except for the small opening at the top meant to vent the … Read more
Book Preview Dusky amber sunset. Humidity tugging on lazy sky. Lone car hauling up the Seven Mile Bridge, toward the airport in Miami, toward a flight that wouldn’t be caught. Rogue wave rising in the water east of the Keys, churning into a monster that would baffle oceanographers on the evening news. Traffic stopped at … Read more
Book Preview Today is my eighteenth birthday. Tomorrow I swear off love. It’s absurd. I’ve never kissed a girl, never asked anyone out. I’ve never slipped my arm around a waist, hoping for encouragement to let it stay. I’ve never danced entangled in another’s limbs, never flirted in a hallway or teased someone and walked … Read more
Book Preview Cam’s boots touched down on the eaves of the old church beneath a cold and starry sky. He drew his wings close and gazed out at the landscape. Spanish moss, white in the moonlight, hung like icicles from antebellum trees. Cinder-block buildings framed a weedy field and a pair of splintery bleachers. Wind … Read more
Book Preview It is a wonderful thing to find one’s acknowledgments growing with every book. I am grateful to Michael Stearns and Ted Malawer for believing in me, for indulging me, for making me work so hard. To Wendy Loggia, Beverly Horowitz, Krista Vitola, and the excellent team at Delacorte Press—you have made Fallen soar … Read more
Book Preview T W O F O R T H E R O A D Shelby and Miles were laughing when they stepped out of the Announcer. Its dark tendrils clung to the brim of Miles’s blue Dodgers baseball cap and Shelby’s tangled ponytail as the two of them emerged. Even though Shelby’s body felt … Read more
Book Preview ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Impassioned thanks to Wendy Loggia, who envisioned this crazy book and whose sane support carries the series. To Beverly Horowitz, for her wisdom and style. To Michael Stearns and Ted Malawer, for making things soar. To Noreen Herits and Roshan Nozari: my gratitude for all you do deepens with each book. Special … Read more
Book Preview First, inexpressible thanks to my readers for all the effusive and generous support. Because of you, I may just have to keep writing forever. To Wendy Loggia, whose belief in this series was a great gift, and who knows just how to make it more like what it always wanted to be. To … Read more
Book Preview IN THE BEGINNING HELSTON, ENGLAND SEPTEMBER 1854 Around midnight, her eyes at last took shape. The look in them was feline, half determined and half tentative—all trouble. Yes, they were just right, those eyes. Rising up to her fine, elegant brow, inches from the dark cascade of her hair. He held the paper … Read more
Book Preview Acknowledgments Thanks to my agent, Ginger Clark, and my editor, Diana Gill. Thanks also to Pamela Spengler-Jaffee, Caroline Perny, Will Hinton, Shawn Nicholls, Dana Trombley, Emma Coode, and the rest of the team at HarperVoyager. Thanks also to Dave Barbor, Sarah LaPolla, and Holly Frederick. Big thanks to Martha and Lorenzo in L.A. … Read more
Book Preview Epigraph To descend into Hell is easy; Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; But to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air—There’s the rub, the task. —Aeneid, BOOK 6 In this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those … Read more
Book Preview Aloha from Hell “TELL ME,” SAYS the Frenchman. “How long has it been since you last killed anything?” He’s fucking with me. He knows the answer, but he wants to make me say it. Father Vidocq taking confession. “I don’t know. What time is it?” “That long, then?” I shrug. Vidocq and … Read more
Book Preview Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breedsPerverse, all monstrous, all prodigious thingsAbominable, unutterable, and worse … —PARADISE LOST, BOOK 2 I don’t want to achieve immortality through mywork. I want to achieve it through not dying. —WOODY ALLEN Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breedsPerverse, all monstrous, all prodigious … Read more
Book Preview Just judge of vengeance, grant the gift of forgiveness, before the day of reckoning. —DIES IRAE, REQUIEM MASS The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they’re going to be when you kill them. —WILLIAM CLAYTON Just judge of vengeance, grant the gift of forgiveness, before the day of reckoning. —DIES IRAE, … Read more
Book Preview I OWE SO many people a debt of gratitude, I hardly know where to begin. The order will seem wrong no matter how I do this. I’ve been blessed with amazing literary agents. Elisabeth Weed, you were my first choice all along, and I still can’t believe I’m lucky enough to have you … Read more
Book Preview PROLOGUE: By Grace and Banners Fallen 1: Eastward the Wind Blew 2: The Choke of an Ajah 4: Advantages to a Bond 7: Into the Thick of It 8: That Smoldering City 10: The Use of Dragons 11: Just Another Sell-sword 12: A Shard of a Moment 13: What Must Be Done 14: … Read more