Kingdom of Shadow and Light

Informationen zum Autor Karen Marie Moning is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fever series, featuring MacKayla Lane, and the award-winning Highlander series. She has a bachelor’s degree in society and law from Purdue University. Klappentext "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York"--Copyright page. Leseprobe darkdream You were my town now I’m in exile seeing you out Dublin, Ireland. After the war to end all wars, my city is perfection. Flanked by princes, the full complement of the Light Court marching behind me, I glide through the streets of Temple Bar. Looming beyond the rooftops of shops and pubs, a blood-­rimmed moon hangs so round and low it nearly obliterates the night sky, reminding me of another planet where—­a thousand lifetimes ago—­I stood between Cruce and the Unseelie king and felt I might ascend to the edge of night, hop a pineboard fence and bridge planet to moon in a single leap. Earth continues to change, becoming more like Faery with each passing day, growing lusher, more opulent and fantastical, befitting a species of jaded palates and hungers extreme. We who rule this planet alter the very fabric of the universe. Mortal physics do not apply. We shape reality; it cedes to our will. Hunters fly overhead, gonging deep in their chests. I glance up as they glide past the moon, and their obsidian wings against the scarlet-­ringed orb causes an unwelcome lightning flash of memory to explode, briefly illuminating my mind—­a gaze of midnight stained with crimson, a man’s hard, challenging, measuring stare: Who the f*** are you? Demented laughter might bubble up inside me, but there is ash where once embers burned, and laughter doesn’t bubble. Nothing does. I am a bottomless, still abyss. The clarity granted by the memory fragment fades. I turn from the sky and back to the street. Phosphorescent fog, driven by an azure ocean lapping at Ireland’s shore, drifts in lacy skeins across cobblestones shiny from yet another rain, draping streetlamps and storefronts in pearlescent webs. As we continue our parade through the district, canopies of velvety blooms explode in our wake, tumbling from window boxes, erupting from rooftop gardens, while a thick carpet of sea-­foam and cerulean grasses push up through stones. Cobbled streets will soon vanish, reclaimed by rich mocha soil. Buildings will be enfolded in the embrace of vines and dragged down until entombed in the earth. This world will be as it should be again. Pristine. Natural. Fae. Fog soothes me; concealing, distorting, making all things seem possible. Creates a frame for illusion, brushing the world softer, more malleable. Narrowing my eyes to blur my vision, I fill that frame with things that once mattered to me, hold the images suspended about me, try to insert myself into the frame but . . . There is nothing for me there. Dublin will never again be what I remember. Nor will I. There is a final act to which I will attend tonight before turning my attention to matters of Court. The soil cannot reclaim a certain bookstore fast enough for me. I don’t trust that the Cauldron of Forgetting will completely eradicate Barrons Books & Baubles from the deepest catacombs of my memory should the earth fail to swallow it and should I, one day, encounter it. This city, this planet is void of human life. I am the only trace of humanity left, and I am but a memory of a vestige of a shadow of that complex, elusive quality. Less than a whisper. I cannot hear it and would not know what it means. Mankind has been scourged from the planet. The old gods are dead, leaving the Fae sole owners of a coveted magic-­rich world. The Nine are—­I terminate that thou...

Product details

• Authors: Karen Marie Moning
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.08.2021
• EAN: 9780399593710
• ISBN: 978-0-399-59371-0
• No. of pages: 592
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 175 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Fever; Fever Novel; Fever Saga / Fever Novel
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy