Magic at the Gate

Informationen zum Autor Devon Monk has one husband, two sons, and a dog named Mojo. She lives in Oregon and is surrounded by colorful and numerous family members who mostly live within dinner-calling distance of each other. She has sold over fifty short stories to fantasy, science fiction, horror, humor, and young adult magazines and anthologies. Her stories have been published in five countries and included in a Year's Best Fantasy collection. When not writing, Devon is either knitting, remodeling the house-that-was-once-a-barn, or hosting a family celebration. Klappentext Allie Beckstrom's lover! Zayvion Jones! is a Guardian of the Gate! imbued with both light and dark magic and responsible for ensuring that those energies don't mix. But Zayvion lies in a coma! his soul trapped in death's realm. And when Allie discovers that the only way to save Zayvion is to sacrifice her very own magical essence! she makes a decision that may have grave consequences for the entire world. Sure, love can make a person do crazy things. But not me. No, never me. Still, there was nothing else to explain the fact that I had ended up in a battle between magic users over the disks my father invented while a wild-magic storm tried to kill us all. There was nothing else but love that would make me turn away from my injured, possibly dying friends, and step through a gate into death with no one beside me but my undead father and my gargoyle. Nothing but love would make me leave this world to bring Zayvion Jones' soul back from death. I suppose if I had never met Zayvion Jones, none of this would have happened. Man had a knack for messing up my life. Truth was, I liked it. He'd probably say the same about me, if he weren't in a coma. As I took that first step off of the grass of Cathedral Park, and through the gate into death, I braced for pain. I'd never stepped into death before, but I figured it was going to sting a little. No. A pause of breath, then cool, soothing numbness settled over me, whisking my pain away. I had never felt better. As soon as I put my foot down into death, that sense of well-being was gone, replaced with a sense of forboding. Death itself had seen better days. Vacant, crumbling buildings, and slick pools of black oil stretched out along the sidewalk of what I was pretty sure was supposed to be West Burnside Street. The city?and it was very clear we were in some twisted version of Portland?looked like a dump. If this was death, I wanted to meet the marketing team that had dreamed up both the fluffy-cloud golden harp thing and the eternal fires of burning hell shtick. This place was broken and empty. Achingly so. "Allison?" my father, who had his hand on my arm, said. He was fully solid, no longer ghostlike. A little taller than me, gray hair, wearing a business suit with a lavender handkerchief in the pocket. Death didn't seem to bother him one bit. And it shouldn't. He belonged here. He squeezed my arm, his eyes flicking back and forth, searching the details of my face. "Can you breathe?" Of all the dumb questions. "Of course I can breathe. Let go of me." His lips pressed together in a thin line and the familiar anger clouded his eyes. He pulled his hand away from my arm. There was no air. No air in my lungs and none to breathe. I tried not to panic, but hey, this was death. I'd be lucky to get out of here alive. And I had to get out of here alive. Zayvion was here, pushed through a gate by his ex-girlfriend Chase, and her ex-Soul Complement, Greyson. Zay's body was in a coma, but his soul was here. Somewhere. This was my one chance?my only chance?to save him. I didn't think anyone got to walk into and out of death twice. I was just praying that Zayvion and I got to do it once. The very real danger of never feeling his touch or hearing his voice while those dark, beautiful eyes looked into me, suddenly sank in. The...

Product details

• Authors: Devon Monk
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.11.2010
• EAN: 9780451463623
• ISBN: 978-0-451-46362-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 175 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Allie Beckstrom; Allie Beckstrom Novels; Allie Beckstrom
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy