New Releases by Jacqueline Carey

Die neue, sinnliche Fantasy-Serie Nach der düster-erotischen Kushiel-Saga um die junge Kurtisane Phèdre hat Jacqueline Carey eine neue, atemberaubende Fantasy-Welt erschaffen, die den ewigen Kampf um Licht und Finsternis neu erzählt: Im Land der Götter brechen düstere Zeiten an. Wo sind die Helden, die es wagen, den Fluchbringer Satoris zu vernichten? Denn Satoris ist mächtig, und er ist ein Meister des Bösen ...

Rimasta vittima di un potente sortilegio, la principessa Sidonie ha dimenticato il suo amore per Imriel de La Courcel e ha accettato di sposare Astegal, sovrano di Cartagine. Disperato, Imriel è pronto a tutto pur di riconquistarla, ma è altresì consapevole che, se solo osasse avvicinarsi al palazzo reale, sarebbe certamente ucciso. Esiste un unico modo per ingannare le guardie e poter così raggiungere la principessa: lanciare su di sé un pericoloso incantesimo e assumere una nuova identità, sebbene ciò significhi anche cancellare la propria memoria. Coi ricordi e con l''aspetto di Leander Maignard, affascinante cortigiano della remota isola di Cythera, Imriel entra quindi nelle grazie del sovrano e riesce a farsi nominare consigliere personale di Sidonie. Ai due giovani bastano pochi giorni per innamorarsi di nuovo e, non appena si scambiano il primo bacio, gli effetti della magia svaniscono insieme con l''amnesia che li aveva colpiti. Purtroppo, però, tutta Terre D''Ange è ancora sotto l''influenza di Astegal. Imriel e Sidonie si mettono dunque in viaggio verso casa; ma, per liberare il regno dal giogo cartaginese, dovranno combattere contro le persone che amano di più al mondo: la regina Ysandre, Jocelin e Phèdre nó Delaunay...

Post-apocalyptic scifi meets urban fantasy in Jacqueline Carey''s sequel to Santa Olivia as two girls fight to stay together and change the world. After their escape from military custody, Loup Garron and her girlfriend Pilar have a chance to reinvent their lives thousands of miles away from the forgotten and disenfranchised Texas border town and military zone of Santa Olivia. Thanks to Loup''s genetically engineered gifts of strength, speed, and an innate fearlessness, as well as Pilar''s unexpected skill with a pistol, they find new careers as high-priced bodyguards for a world famous British rock band. Back in the States, an investigation into the existence of Santa Olivia, also known as Outpost 12, begins in Washington, D.C. When the key witness with evidence to expose the military cover-up, their old comrade Miguel, vanishes, the case seems lost. The abandoned citizens of Santa Olivia need a champion, a voice raised on their behalf, which pushes Loup and Pilar into a hard choice. If Loup returns to U.S. soil, she''ll be an outlaw. If she''s caught, she''ll be taken into custody again; and this time, there may be no escape. But if she and Pilar don''t fight for the freedom of those they left behind, no one will.

Dopo aver vendicato la morte della moglie, Imriel è libero di tornare a casa e di rendere pubblica la sua relazione con Sidonie. La regina Ysandre, però, non può permettere che la delfina di Terre D''Ange si fidanzi col figlio della famigerata Mélisande Shahrizai, la donna che per ben due volte ha cercato di usurpare il regno e che poi è svanita nel nulla. Perciò, come segno della propria fedeltà, Imriel dovrà consegnare la traditrice alla giustizia, altrimenti Sidonie verrà diseredata. Grazie ai suoi legami con la Gilda Invisibile - una setta segreta ramificata in tutto il mondo - il giovane riesce a scoprire il nascondiglio della madre; tuttavia, proprio quando si prepara a partire, giunge a corte Astegal, l''ambizioso principe di Cartagine. Con un subdolo incantesimo, Astegal assoggetta al suo volere tutti gli abitanti di Terre D''Ange, compresa Sidonie, che accetta persino di sposarlo. Essendo l''unico rimasto immune, Imriel si trova quindi costretto a chiedere aiuto al solo uomo che possa spezzare il potentissimo sortilegio: Ptolemy Solon, governatore della remota isola di Cythera, nonché amante di Mélisande Shahrizai...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Kushiel''s Legacy series comes the concluding volume in Moirin''s story. The half-human/half-deity must look to her past mistakes to restore order in her homeland, at whatever cost. Returning to Terre d''Ange, Moirin finds the royal family broken. Wracked by unrelenting grief at the loss of his wife, Queen Jehanne, King Daniel is unable to rule. Prince Thierry, leading an expedition to explore the deadly jungles of Terra Nova, is halfway across the world. And three-year-old Desirée is a vision of her mother: tempestuous, intelligent, and fiery, but desperately lonely, and a vulnerable pawn in a game of shifting political allegiances. As tensions mount, King Daniel asks that Moirin become Desirée''s oath-sworn protector. Navigating the intricate political landscape of the Court proves a difficult challenge, and when dire news arrives from overseas, the spirit of Queen Jehanne visits Moirin in a dream and bids her undertake an impossible quest. Another specter from the past also haunts Moirin. Traveling with Thierry in the New World is Raphael de Mereliot, her manipulative former lover. Years ago, Raphael forced her to help him summon fallen angels in the hopes of acquiring mystical gifts and knowledge. It was a disastrous effort that nearly killed them, and Moirin must finally bear the costs of those bitter mistakes.

Prima è sfuggito a uno spietato sicario a Tiberium, poi è sopravvissuto per miracolo all’assedio della città di Lucca, eppure Imriel de La Courcel, terzo in linea di successione al trono di Terre D’Ange, adesso non può sottrarsi al matrimonio combinato con Dorelei mab Breidaia, principessa di Alba. In attesa del giorno della cerimonia, il giovane viene chiamato a corte, dove incontra la cugina Sidonie, la legittima erede del regno angeline. E, all’improvviso, accade ciò che non doveva accadere: i due vengono travolti da un desiderio irrefrenabile e, a dispetto dei rischi cui si espongono, si abbandonano a un’intensa passione segreta. Ma, per un nobile, il vero amore è un sogno destinato a infrangersi. Celebrate le nozze, Imriel è infatti costretto a separarsi da Sidonie per trasferirsi con la moglie ad Alba, un’isola lontana e primitiva, abitata da un popolo geloso delle antiche tradizioni e dedito alla magia oscura. Fin da subito, il nuovo arrivato percepisce un’atmosfera ostile, e i suoi timori vengono confermati quando una strega cerca di asservirlo alla propria volontà grazie a un potente incantesimo. Deciso a non piegarsi, Imriel scopre tuttavia che, per liberarsi da quel giogo opprimente, sarà obbligato a pagare un prezzo altissimo: rinunciare all’amore per Sidonie...

Imriel est le fils adoptif de Phedre, l''Elue de Kushiel. Enleve, torture et reduit en esclavage lorsqu''il n''etait qu''un enfant, Imriel est aujourd''hui prince du sang. A la Cour ou se trament mille conspirations, nombreux sont ceux qui souhaitent sa mort - de peur qu''il n''ait herite des dons malefiques de sa veritable mere, Melisande. Alors qu''il approche de l''age d''homme et que s''eveillent en lui des desirs de plus en plus vifs, Imriel en vient a partager leurs craintes et se trouve piege au coeur d''une trame de meurtres et de manipulations ou il devra faire face au plus grand des defis: decouvrir sa veritable nature.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Kushiel''s Legacy series, a lushly imagined fantasy featuring Moirin: daughter of Alba. Far from the land of her birth, Moirin sets out across Tatar territory to find Bao, the proud and virile Ch''in fighter who holds the missing half of her diadh-anam, the divine soul-spark of her mother''s people. After a long ordeal, she not only succeeds, but surrenders to a passion the likes of which she''s never known. But the lovers'' happiness is short lived, for Bao is entangled in a complication that soon leads to their betrayal.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Kushiel''s Legacy series comes an all new saga set in her unique Renaissance world. Once there were great magicians born to the Maghuin Dhonn; the folk of the Brown Bear, the oldest tribe in Alba. But generations ago, the greatest of them all broke a sacred oath sworn in the name of all his people. Now, only small gifts remain to them. Through her lineage, Moirin possesses such gifts—the ability to summon the twilight and conceal herself, and the skill to coax plants to grow. Moirin has a secret, too. From childhood onward, she senses the presence of unfamiliar gods in her life; the bright lady, and the man with a seedling cupped in his palm. Raised in the wilderness by her reclusive mother, it isn''t until she comes of age that Moirin learns how illustrious, if mixed, her heritage is. After Moirin undergoes the rites of adulthood, she finds divine acceptance—on the condition that she fulfill an unknown destiny.

Sidonie, heir to the throne, & Imriel, son of a traitor, have confessed their dangerous union. But their love has caused political uproar: Imriel''s infamous mother plunged Terre d''Ange into a bloody war & her crimes will not be lightly forgiven. If the couple weds, Sidonie will be disinherited.

Bridget, Jean, and Sunny Crossley grow up in modest circumstances on Long Island, and all end up in the New York City of the 1980s. Free spirit Bridget, the oldest, is a well-traveled, sometime massage therapist in the East Village. Outspoken Jean is a corporate headhunter in double-breasted power suits who lives in a gleaming Upper East Side tower. Harvard-educated Sunny, the youngest and sweetest sister, drifts from eligible boyfriend to eligible boyfriend until she falls for a Harlem real estate developer and starts a family. When Bridget dies unexpectedly during what should have been a routine operation, she leaves behind a ten-month-old girl named Jade. The big question becomes: Who should take the baby? The obvious and expert Sunny, or the never-at-home career woman Jean? The answer is, of course, more complicated than either sister could have anticipated.

Pat Foy leads a charmed life. She has a close-knit family, an expensive home, a passion for mystery novels, and a satisfying career as a landscape designer. But then her husband, Frank, is arrested for accounting fraud at the telecommunications firm that employs him. “How could anything that boring be illegal?” she wonders. The scandal threatens to drain the Foys’ bank account, send Frank to prison, and tear the family apart. Attempting to understand the suffering caused by the company’s bankruptcy, Pat decides to search out the victims—and finds more twists and turns than in any of the whodunits she has read.

I was afraid of the dark tide that stirred in me. I did not want any part of my mother''s blood. And yet it called to me.'' Imriel de la Courcel, third in line to the throne, was enslaved and tortured as a boy, leaving him scarred and wary of his future. Son of a traitor, Imriel fears the dangerous passions of his bloodline - and his potential for destruction. His beloved stepmother, exotic and lovely, has trained him in the arts of covertcy - espionage skills that will either serve his country well, or draw him into a web of corruption and treachery. Imriel will need all of these resources as he travels, incognito, to escape the demands of court and family ... What he discovers is not freedom, but a city at war, and a political game so deep that he may never escape its net.

"The sequel to Kushiel''s avatar, Imriel returns to embark on a harsh and ugly quest to bring the murderer of his wife and son to justice"--Provided by publisher.

Following the triumphant success of her Kushiel series (Kushiel''s Dart, Kushiel''s Chosen, Kushiel''s Avatar), Jacqueline Carey now turns her hand to another startling fable, an epic tale of gods waging war in their bid to control an entire universe and the mortals they use as chess pieces in a most deadly game. Once, the Seven Shapers dwelled in accord. First-born among them was Haomane, Lord-of-Thought and with his brother and sister gods, the Seven drew upon of the power of the Souma, claimed a race of beings for their own and began Shaping the world to their will. But Haomane saw the ways of this new world and was displeased. For in his younger brother Satoris, once called the Sower, Haomane thought too prideful and in his gift, the quickening of the flesh too freely to the races...and to that of Man in particular. Haomane asked Satoris to withdraw his Gift from Men but he refused. And so began the Shapers'' War. Eons have passed. The war that ensued Sundered the very world. Haomane and his siblings lay to one end of a vast ocean unable to touch their creations, Satoris and the races of the world on the other. Satoris has been broken and left adrift among the peoples of the world and is reviled, with most of the races believing that it was he alone who caused the rift and depriving them of the balm of the Seven. He sits in Darkhaven, controlling his own dominion--seeking not victory but neither vengeance. But still Haomane is not content. Through Haomane''s whispers in the minds and hearts of the races of the world come a prophecy that if Satoris were defeated, the world could be made whole and all would bask in the light of the Souma again. And the few who stay by Satoris are viewed as the ultimate evil. And so the races come together to defeat Satoris, a being who helped engender them all but who is caught in his elder brother''s warp. Strong storytelling with evocative, compelling, and unforgettable characters, Banewrecker ultimately asks the question: If all that is considered good considers you evil, are you? At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

One thousand years after pledging himself to the dark god Satoris, Lord Tanaros works to defend the citadel of Darkhaven from a human uprising, a situation that is complicated by Satoris''s capture of the beautiful Elvish princess, Cerelinde.

Fantasy-roman.

The third book in a fantasy series set in an alternative Renaissance world.

The lush epic fantasy that inspired a generation with a single precept: Love As Thou Wilt The first book in the Kushiel''s Legacy series is a novel of grandeur, luxuriance, sacrifice, betrayal, and deeply laid conspiracies. A world of cunning poets, deadly courtiers, deposed rulers and a besieged Queen, a warrior-priest, the Prince of Travelers, barbarian warlords, heroic traitors, and a truly Machiavellian villainess...all seen through the unflinching eyes of an unforgettable heroine. A nation born of angels, vast and intricate and surrounded by danger... a woman born to servitude, unknowingly given access to the secrets of the realm... Born with a scarlet mote in her left eye, Phédre nó Delaunay is sold into indentured servitude as a child. When her bond is purchased by an enigmatic nobleman, she is trained in history, theology, politics, foreign languages, the arts of pleasure. And above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Exquisite courtesan, talented spy...and unlikely heroine. But when Phédre stumbles upon a plot that threatens her homeland, Terre d''Ange, she has no choice. Betrayed into captivity in the barbarous northland of Skaldia and accompanied only by a disdainful young warrior-priest, Phédre makes a harrowing escape and an even more harrowing journey to return to her people and deliver a warning of the impending invasion. And that proves only the first step in a quest that will take her to the edge of despair and beyond. Phédre nó Delaunay is the woman who holds the keys to her realm''s deadly secrets, and whose courage will decide the very future of her world. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The diary of a romance between two yuppies. They are serious, they intend to marry, but Bonnie lives in Washington and Kip in New York. So who is going to sacrifice their job in order to be together? That leads to the first fight, one of many conducted with messages on their answering machines.

A pictorial examination of the use of angels in art, legends and lore.

Carey brings her sharp eye, humor and smooth, understated style to this accomplished first novel about a girl''s careful look at the family she believes is so much happier than her own, fulfilling the promise of her enthusiastically received debut work, Good Gossip.