Hunted Warrior

Informationen zum Autor Lindsey Piper is the alter ego of award-winning historical romance author Carrie Lofty. Readers and critics are wild for the “red-hot” ( RT Book Reviews ) Dragon Kings series, her unique first foray into paranormal fiction. She lives and writes in Chicago. Visit her online at LindseyPiper.com and CarrieLofty.com. Klappentext "Pocket Books paranormal romance"--Spine.Hunted Warrior CHAPTER ONE They called her the Pet, but she didn’t think of herself as a creature in need of protection, care, or condescension. She’d left that life behind. Neither was she a captive, as she picked her way through the ruins of a crumbling rock labyrinth on the island of Crete. How she’d come to be there was a story she didn’t dare contemplate for fear of going mad. There was no rhyme, no reason, no guide other than the future she saw in bits and patches. The sun was fierce and gorgeously freeing on the back of her neck. She was a Dragon King, and Dragon Kings loved fire. Most wouldn’t admit how much the cold sunk under their skin and sapped their sense of near-invincibility. Maybe that was for the best. The would-be gods didn’t realize that all empires ended, even those blessed with access to what humans would consider supernatural. Turning to stare into the blinding white-yellow glare, she didn’t bother to shade her eyes. Her second sight—the gift from the Dragon that gave her the ability to see the future—was always with her, no matter its unpredictability. A man sought her. A man who hid his violence behind titles and lineage. Time was slippery like moss on a riverbank. Time was slippery on her fingertips. Time was running out. She continued her cautious journey through the abandoned ruins of ancient kings. The ground was strewn with pieces of the crumbled labyrinth. Once-high walls had been reduced by countless rains and droughts, decades and centuries, until all that remained were bleached waist-high spikes and jagged edges. There was nothing to grab should she fall—not without impaling her hand. Dragon Kings healed rapidly, but some damage was too much for even their advanced physiology to repair. Archaeologists had long ago dubbed the site of little historic worth. Its condition was so deteriorated that they could gather little new information about the Minoans of Crete. How blinded they were. Humans suffered the hubris of a society that believed itself the most advanced to ever walk the earth. Any thought as to the Dragon Kings’ existence was disregarded as fairy tales of Valkyries and Olympians and countless messiahs. The woman called the Pet knew differently. All the myths were true. What was once, would be again. The Chasm isn’t fixed. Why her predictions of the future had led her to Crete as a means of stopping the Dragon Kings’ slow extinction was beyond her. She had to trust. She’d always needed to trust, when little in her life stood as an example of why to believe. Maybe her real gift from the Great Dragon wasn’t the ability to see the future but to have faith in what she couldn’t explain. The labyrinth was waist-high, yes, but it was still a tangle of dead ends, wrong turns, and twenty-foot pits. When she realized a mistake, she couldn’t climb over the wall and continue on. Her hands would be shredded. So, as with all mazes, she doubled back and kept the details firmly in mind. The conventional wisdom was that if one chose a direction and stuck with it—all left turns, always, no matter what—the heart of the geometric puzzle would be revealed. Those three-story pits barring certain passages made that impossible. And time . . . Yes, time was slippery. She needed to hurry, because the man was coming. ...

Product details

• Authors: Lindsey Piper
• Publisher: Pocket Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.05.2014
• EAN: 9781451695939
• ISBN: 978-1-4516-9593-9
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Dragon Kings; Dragon Kings
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature