Carnal Sin - Seven Deadly Sins

Informationen zum Autor Allison Brennan is the New York Times bestselling author of many romantic thrillers, including Kiss Me, Kill Me; Love Me to Death; Sudden Death; and Killing Fear . A five-time RITA finalist and Daphne du Maurier Award winner, Brennan enjoys spending her free time reading, playing games, watching high school sports, and researching her novels. A member of Romance Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers, Allison Brennan lives in Northern California with her husband, Dan, and their five children. Klappentext Santa Louisa is still reeling from the lethal rampage of the demon Envy! one of the Seven Deadly Sins released from Hell by black magic. The fiendish entity was finally trapped! but when more bodies bearing satanic marks surface in Los Angeles! demon hunter Moira O'Donnell fears the terror has only just begun. Racing to L.A.! Moira discovers that the City of Angels is fast becoming the demon Lust's decadent playground. She suspects another coven is at work! aided indirectly by her diabolical mother! the powerful witch Fiona. But when Moira's unwanted psychic powers intensify! she fears her connection to the underworld is putting everyone she cares about in grave danger. As supernatural war erupts! Moira and smoldering! seductive Rafe Cooper are caught in the crossfire. Cornered by mortal and unearthly enemies! they must master all their own powers to survive-and to understand if the intensely passionate feelings that bind them are Lust's demon magic or true desire. ONE Present Day Moira O’Donnell woke up with blood on her hands. Her heart raced as she sat upright in the strange bed, staring at the dark-red blood drip, drip, dripping onto the white sheets, disappearing as each thick drop spread. She swallowed the scream that fought to escape. She blinked and the blood was gone. The panicked rage faded. She almost—almost, but not quite—forgot the feeling of her hand clenching the heavy, balanced dagger. Almost forgot the sickening sound of the blade slicing through tendons, hitting bone, cutting out an invisible soul and throwing it to demons that tore it to shreds, feeding. It’s not real. It’s not real. It’s not real. She repeated the mantra, reminding herself that it was only a nightmare, that she’d certainly never killed a person. The fear from the dream stayed; it always did. Moira lived with fear day in and day out, sometimes buried so deep she almost could believe it was gone. When she lied to herself. As the nightmare faded, her vision blurred. The dim early-morning light coming from the edges of the closed blinds looked cloudy and surreal, like her nightmare. She felt a vision coming on . . . but that wasn’t possible. She’d never been fully awake for a vision before; they’d always hit her in the moment of unease immediately following a nightmare, before she could claw her way back to consciousness. She was awake—knew she was awake—but everything around her was foggy, while her mind started a movie she didn’t want to see. Moira’s gut reaction was to stop the onslaught of images, but she couldn’t even if she’d tried. In a rush, her mind flooded with thoughts not her own, sights she’d never witnessed, feelings she’d never had. No vision had ever been anything like this. Not this physical sense of evil seeping into every pore, filling her until she wanted to scream. She flew across the continent and back, tired. Bored. Frustrated. There were many places she could stay, but none of them appealed to her. It was all too easy. The desires of the body were weak, and she was anything but weak. She wanted freedom, but wasn’t free. She wanted vengeance, and she could have it—have everything—when she was free. Freedom! Her time was now. She grew stronger with each passing day. Yet, her spirit was caught by so...

Product details

• Authors: Allison Brennan
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.06.2010
• EAN: 9780345511683
• ISBN: 978-0-345-51168-3
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 175 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Ballantine Books; Seven Deadly Sins; Seven Deadly Sins
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy