Revenant

Informationen zum Autor Phaedra Weldon Klappentext View our feature on Phaedra Weldon's Revenant.The smart! sassy! single! and "highly original" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs) Zoë Martinique is back- and she's seeking clues on the other side... Zoë Martinique's life hasn't been ordinary for quite awhile. First she developed the ability to travel outside her body at will-where she encountered some seriously weird things. Things that left her with powers that she didn't really want or need. Still! a person can get used to almost anything- even being a Wraith. Though more often than not! it plays serious havoc with her love life. But for once! Zoë is glad of her abilities. Bodies are showing up all over Atlanta! drained of blood. They're beings from another astral plane! called Revenants-and they're being stalked by her old enemy! the Phantasm. The Revenants are hardly the nicest of creatures-but to preserve the cosmic balance! Zoë will need to put everything on the line to save them... Leseprobe 1 Superman makes this shit look easy. Flying, I mean. Just points his beefy hand out with a mightyfist and away he goes. Up, up, up. I do the same and crash into— through —and past a building. I guess this is a good thing since Idon’t actually break anything in the process. No bones or concrete. Though that last condo I blasted through had some seriouslyquestionable stuff happening in that middle unit—was that a cato’-nine-tails I saw? I tumbled out and put the brakes on, backpedalingin midair as I concentrated on the darkened world, lookingfor the telltale signs of the Fetch I’d been chasing. What’s a Fetch? Hell if I knew. The only intel I’d been given wasthat if I could catch them easily, I would graduate from grasshopperto padawan. Yes. I know. Mixing media here. It’s good practice,going after the small baddies. Gets me in shape for the big baddies,right? What I did know about Fetches was what I’d read in theDioscuri notes the Society of Ishmael had let me read. Was stillreading. Nasty little suckers. Really nothing more than a stray bit ofAbysmal essence discarded by its creator. They were a lot like Daemons,brought into existence to spy or do icky things. Some wereused as assassins. They weren’t given forms like me or you—butleft naked in a way so they could blend into their environment.This one’d been made out of office supplies—like an Office Depottransformer. And every time it’d gone through a wall, its accoutermentshad been ripped off, and then it’d pulled whatever else wasnearby to itself, giving it form again. Last time I checked—this onewas made of toilet paper—two-ply. Oh—let me explain. My name’s Zoë—and you’d think I’d gettired of reintroducing myself. But see—I never know where peoplejoin the adventure. Or tragedy. Depends on how you look at it. Martinique. Last name. I’m a twentysomething former retail salesgirl turned Wraith.Wraith. That’s what I am. All because—and let me make sure Igot this straight in my own head—I was born an Irin, the child ofan angel, and was touched by the Abysmal plane. Got that? Good, ’cause I ain’t repeating it. “Hey—lover—” came a deep voice to my left. A voice thatrightfully belonged to a detective I knew but was being used by mycompanion at the moment. I was hovering as I got my bearings, myarms crossed over my chest, and turned my head to take a look atmy enemy, my nemesis, and the reason all this shit had happenedto me. Let me introduce you to that part of the Abysmal plane I wastouched by. The Archer. TC to me and my buddies. Trench Coat. That would be the bald guy with sunglasses hovering to myleft. Not that he knew what would happen back then—or I. Butapparently we’re irrevocably linked together in all sorts of oogyways. Before he touched me, I could go out of body, or OOB asI called it. Astral projection. But th...

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• Autori: Phaedra Weldon
• Editore: Ace Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9780441018659
• ISBN: 978-0-441-01865-9
• Pagine: 352
• Dimensioni: 137 mm x 206 mm x 24 mm
• Serie: Berkley / NAL
• Categoria: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy