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Zusatztext Praise for Ilona Andrews and the #1 New York Times Bestselling Kate Daniels Novels “Ilona Andrews's books are guaranteed good reads.”—Patricia Briggs! #1 New York Times bestselling author “Kate is a great kick-ass heroine.”— Locus “One of the brightest voices in urban fantasy...Ilona Andrews delivers only the best.”—Jeaniene Frost! New York Times bestselling author “One of the best urban fantasy series ever written!”— RT Book Reviews “Andrews's edgy series stands apart.”— Library Journal “Urban fantasy absolutely does not get much better than this.”—SF Signal “I can’t think of another series so consistent! so well written! so full of wit and action and drama that always manages to give me exactly what I’m needing.”—Fiction Vixen Informationen zum Autor Ilona Andrews is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing team, Gordon and Ilona. They currently reside in Texas with their two children and numerous dogs and cats. The couple are the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors of the Kate Daniels and Kate Daniels World novels as well as The Edge and Hidden Legacy series. They also write the Innkeeper Chronicles series, which they post as a free weekly serial. For a complete list of their books, fun extras, and Innkeeper installments, please visit their website at www.ilona-andrews.com. Klappentext The #1 New York Times Bestseller! Atlanta is a city plagued by magical problems. Kate Daniels will fight to solve them-no matter the cost... Mercenary Kate Daniels and her mate! Curran! the Beast Lord! are struggling to solve a heartbreaking crisis. Unable to control their beasts! many of the Pack's shapeshifting children fail to survive to adulthood. While there is a medicine that can help! the secret to its making is closely guarded by the European packs! and there's little available in Atlanta. Kate can't bear to watch innocents suffer! but the solution she and Curran have found threatens to be even more painful. The European shapeshifters who once outmaneuvered the Beast Lord have asked him to arbitrate a dispute-and they'll pay him in medicine. With the young people's survival and the Pack's future at stake! Kate and Curran know they must accept the offer-but they have little doubt that they're heading straight into a trap... Chapter 1 I spun the spear. “One mOre argument and I’ll ground you.” Julie rolled her eyes with all the scorn a fourteen–year–old could muster and pushed her blond hair away from her face. “Kate, like when will I ever use this in real life?” “You’ll use it in the next five seconds to keep me from impaling you.” In my twenty–six years, I’ve held many jobs. Teaching wasn’t one of them. Mostly I killed people in bloody and cre¬ative ways. But Julie was my ward and my responsibility, and practicing with a spear was good for her. It built muscle, reflexes, and balance, and she would need all three when we moved on to the sword. Several decades ago magic returned to our world, crushing our technological civilization and whatever illusion of safety we had with it. Magic and technology still fought over us, playing with the planet like two kids tossing a ball to each other. When one functioned, the other didn’t. The cops did the best they could, but half of the time the phones didn’t work and all available officers responded to important emergencies, like saving schoolchildren from a flock of ravenous harpies. Meanwhile, with resources scarce and life cheap, people did a fine job preying on each other. Smart citizens didn’t go out at night. If the lowlifes didn’t get you, the magic aberrations with giant teeth would. Every person was responsible for his or her own safety, and we relied on magic, guns, and blades. Julie’s magic was rare, and highly priz...
