Unseen - Outcast Season

Informationen zum Autor Rachel Caine is the author of more than twenty novels, including the "Weather Warden" series. She was born at White Sands Missile Range, which people who know her say explains a lot. She has been an accountant, a professional musician, and an insurance investigator, and still carries on a secret identity in the corporate world. She and her husband, fantasy artist R. Cat Conrad, live in Texas with their iguanas, Popeye and Darwin; a mali uromastyx named (appropriately) O’Malley; and a leopard tortoise named Shelley (for the poet, of course). Klappentext View our feature on Rachel Caine's Unseen . After Cassiel and Warden Luis Rocha rescue an adept child from a maniacal Djinn! they realize two things: the girl is already manifesting an incredible amount of power! and her kidnapping was not an isolated incident. This Djinn-aided by her devoted followers-is capturing children all over the world! and indoctrinating them so she can use their strength for herself. With no other options! Cassiel infiltrates the Djinn's organization-because if Cassiel cannot stop the Djinn's apocalyptic designs! all of humanity may be destroyed. Leseprobe Fire is a living, malevolent thing. It eats, it breathes, it moves with fluid grace and eerie, destructive beauty. I could still appreciate the astonishing power of it, even as my hair crisped at the ends and the heat seared across my fragile human skin. Flames poured like liquid down the walls of the office, rippling and twisting out onto the floor, devouring the furniture. Everything seemed trapped in its own frozen moment of destruction, as if the fire had become amber. I couldn't focus my stinging eyes for more than a few seconds; everything seemed too bright, too hot, and in the next instant smoke billowed black and choking around me. I fell to my knees and crawled, breathing oven-hot toxic fumes until my searching hand fell on something soft. Skin?a woman's hand. It wasn't moving. I grabbed hold and pulled her back toward me; her black suit had caught fire, and I batted the blaze out as coughing fits threatened to rip my lungs from my body. The woman I had found was unconscious but still breathing shallowly. Smoke had made her face a grimy mask. "Cass! Get your ass out now !" A raw, ragged shout pierced the roar of the fire, and I looked around to see a sheet of fire racing across the floor toward me. A sudden chemical blast of white foam snuffed it out. It was a temporary measure, but it gave me precious seconds to find the strength to move. Luis Rocha, still holding the sputtering, empty extinguisher, stumbled into view out of the thick smoke. My Warden partner looked as if he'd been through a fierce battle?clothes torn and burned, skin singed. He'd lost part of his shoulder-length black hair to the flames. "Cass, come on?we're losing it! Gotta go!" I poured raw Earth power?thick, golden power that flowed like honey?over the woman I'd found, into her, and saw her breathing and heartbeat steady. I stood up and grabbed her around the waist. She was a small thing, and I was tall; even so, the weight of her draped over my shoulder caused me to stagger. The fire roared its defiance and ignited a chair only a few feet away; it burned fast, upholstery charring into black lace and revealing bones of springs and wood. I stopped, momentarily overcome. Nothing looked right now, and I couldn't find the exit. You will die here , something told me. It sounded like the cold, dispassionate voice of Ashan, the leader of the Old Djinn?my brother, in a very real way; my king, in everything that mattered. Why do you do these things, for them? For humans, he meant. I was not born into flesh; being here in the mortal world was my choice, just as I'd chosen to run into this burning building alongside Luis. I had my reasons for doing both of those foolish, pot...

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Caine
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.02.2011
• EAN: 9780451463838
• ISBN: 978-0-451-46383-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 175 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Roc; Outcast Season; Outcast (Roc); Outcast Season; Outcast (Roc)
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy