The Dream Thief

Informationen zum Autor Shana Abé is the award-winning author of nine novels, including The Smoke Thief . She lives in the Denver area with four surly pet house rabbits, all rescued, and a big goofy dog. Please, please support your local animal shelter, and spay or neuter your pets. Klappentext In the remote hills of northern England lives a powerful clan with a centuries-old secret. They are the drákon, shape-shifters who possess the ability to Turn—changing from human to smoke to dragon. And from the very stones of the earth, they hear hypnotic songs of beauty and wonder. But there is one stone they fear.... Buried deep within the bowels of the Carpathian Mountains lies the legendary dreaming diamond known as Draumr, the only gem with the power to enslave the drákon. Since childhood, Lady Amalia Langford, daughter of the clan's Alpha, has heard its haunting ballad but kept it secret, along with another rare Gift.... Lia can hear the future, much in the way she hears the call of Draumr. And in that future, she realizes that the diamond—along with the fate of the drákon—rests in the hands of a human man, one who straddles two worlds. Ruthlessly clever, Zane has risen through London's criminal underworld to become its ruler. Once a street urchin saved by Lia's mother, Zane is also privy to the secrets of the clan—and is the only human they trust to bring them Draumr. But he does nothing selflessly. Zane's hunt for the gem takes him to Hungary, where he is shocked to encounter a bold, beautiful young noblewoman: Lia. She has broken every rule of the drákon to join him, driven by the urgent song of Draumr—and her visions of Zane. In one future, he is her ally. In another, her overlord. In both, he is her lover. Now, to protect her tribe, Lia must tie her fate to Zane's, to the one man capable of stealing her future—and destroying her heart.... Chapter One Darkfrith, Northern England 1768 In the dream, she was always blind. That's what would come first, the utter darkness, settling over her like a soft, soft blanket. But it wasn't a hopeless or desperate kind of blindness. In fact, it always seemed absolutely normal. Because the dream was never about what she could see, but all about what she could hear. " Lia ." " Yes ," she would answer. It was a man speaking to her in the dream. A man's voice, one she knew as well as she knew the flow of water over the rocks of her favorite streambed, dark and familiar and smooth. " Lia ," he would say, an imperative. " I'm here ." " Come to me ." And she would, because in the dream there was nothing she wanted more than to obey that voice. It was her only ambition. " Tell me about today ," the man invited, still so smooth. " The peaches are ripening. The wheat is hip-high. The Dartmoor ruby has a buyer in Brussels. He wants the emeralds as well." " Good ." And, oh, how it pleased her, that one single word. How it shimmered through her like warm, sunlit honey, filling her with sweetness. " Where is the marquess? " the man asked. " Kimber is in the drawing room, awaiting you ." That part was wrong. Even in the dream Lia knew it was wrong, because Kimber wasn't the Marquess of Langford yet. Their father was. Kimber was just a boy. But the man never noticed. " And tonight, my heart?" the man asked, his voice stroking. " Tonight is the Havington dinner party. The viscountess will wear sapphires and silk ." She did not know anyone named Havington. She did not know how she knew about the sapphires, or the silk. But she knew that it was all true. " Which sapphires?" " A necklace of one hundred thirty-two stones, set in gold, the center stone round, twenty-nine carats, with a spray of opals all around. A bracel...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Shana Abe, Shana Abé
• Editore: Bantam Books USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.08.2007
• EAN: 9780553588057
• ISBN: 978-0-553-58805-7
• Pagine: 368
• Dimensioni: 106 mm x 175 mm x 27 mm
• Serie: Drakon; Drakon
• Categoria: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy