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Zusatztext Praise for Devon Monk and her novels “A must read.”—Keri Arthur! New York Times bestselling author of Darkness Splintered “Devon Monk rocks.”—Ilona Andrews! #1 New York Times bestselling author of Magic Breaks “Beautifully written and brilliantly imagined.”—Rachel Vincent! New York Times bestselling author of Oath Bound “Brilliantly and tightly written…will surprise! amuse! amaze! and absorb readers.”— Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Fantastic.”—SciFiChick.com Informationen zum Autor Devon Monk is the national bestselling author of two urban fantasy series, Allie Beckstrom ( Magic for a Price ; Magic Without Mercy ) and Broken Magic ( Stone Cold ; Hell Bent ), as well as the author of the Age of Steam steampunk series ( Cold Copper ; Tin Swift ). When she's not writing, Devon knits silly things and lives in Oregon with her husband, two sons, and a dog named Mojo. Klappentext Return to national bestselling author Devon Monk's heartpounding House Immortal series! where eleven powerful Houses control the world and all its resources. But now! the treaty between them has been broken! and no one—not even the immortal galvanized—is safe.... Matilda Case isn't normal. Normal people aren't stitched together! inhumanly strong! and ageless! as she and the other galvanized are. Normal people's bodies don't hold the secret to immortality—something the powerful Houses will kill to possess. And normal people don't know that they're going to die in a few days. Matilda's fight to protect the people she loves triggered a chaotic war between the Houses and shattered the world's peace. On the run! she must find a way to stop the repeat of the ancient time experiment that gifted her and the other galvanized with immortality. Because this time! it will destroy her and everything she holds dear. Caught in a cat-and-mouse game of lies! betrayal! and unseen foes! Matilda must fight to save the world from utter destruction. But time itself is her enemy! and every second brings her one step closer to disaster.... PRAISE FOR THE HOUSE IMMORTAL NOVELS BOOKS BY DEVON MONK ROC ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1 I thought you were an angel burning in that dark night. I thought you had come to save me. Maybe you did. But I never wanted you to die for me. —from the diary of E. N. D. The sound of the seaplane’s engine growling low and loud as it came in for a landing jarred me awake. I sat, still half asleep, reaching for my duffel, my gun, or anything I could use as a weapon. The seat belt dug into my hips painfully, and a warm, soft cloth slid down away from my chin. “We’re coming into San Diego, Matilda,” my brother, Quinten Case, said from behind me. Right. Seaplane, running for our lives from the Houses who thought we were behind the murder of Oscar Gray and Slater Orange. Houses who ruled all the resources in the world, and were, at this moment, using those resources to sift through the world to find me, my brother, and Abraham Seventh. To be honest, the chances of us slipping their notice weren’t great. The chances of us slipping their notice before the Wings of Mercury experiment—an old time machine my ever-so-great-grandfather had built—triggered and killed me, Abraham, and all the other galvanized in the world was right near zero. Still, I was a Case. And we Cases never gave up when saving the world. It was dark outside. Night. I must have slept for hours. The rest of the blanket covering me fell away as I lifted my hands to rub at my face. “How much longer?” I asked. “Just about to land.” I straightened and dug at the knots in my neck, rubbing the ache out of it. Then I glanced back...
