Magic Shifts

Zusatztext Praise for Ilona Andrews and the #1 New York Times Bestselling Kate Daniels Novels Ilona Andrews's books are guaranteed good reads.Patricia Briggs! #1 New York Times bestselling author Kate is a great kick-ass heroine. Locus One of the brightest voices in urban fantasy...Ilona Andrews delivers only the best.Jeaniene Frost! New York Times bestselling author One of the best urban fantasy series ever written! RT Book Reviews Andrews's edgy series stands apart. Library Journal Urban fantasy absolutely does not get much better than this.SF Signal I can't think of another series so consistent! so well written! so full of wit and action and drama that always manages to give me exactly what I'm needing.Fiction Vixen Informationen zum Autor Ilona Andrews is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing team, Gordon and Ilona. They currently reside in Texas with their two children and numerous dogs and cats. The couple are the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors of the Kate Daniels and Kate Daniels World novels as well as The Edge and Hidden Legacy series. They also write the Innkeeper Chronicles series, which they post as a free weekly serial. For a complete list of their books, fun extras, and Innkeeper installments, please visit their website at www.ilona-andrews.com. Klappentext Magic is coming and going in waves in post-Shift Atlanta-and each crest leaves danger in its wake in this gripping novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Kate Daniels series. After breaking from life with the Pack! mercenary Kate Daniels and her mate-former Beast Lord Curran Lennart-are adjusting to a very different pace. While they're thrilled to escape all the infighting! Kate and Curran know that separating from the Pack completely is a process that will take time. But when they learn that their friend Eduardo has gone missing! Kate and Curran shift their focus to investigate his disappearance. As they dig further into the merc's business! they discover that the Mercenary Guild has gone to hell and that Eduardo's recent assignments are connected in the most sinister way An ancient enemy has arisen! and Kate and Curran are the only ones who can stop it-before it takes their city apart piece by piece. Chapter One I rode through the night-drenched streets of Atlanta on a mammoth donkey. The donkey's name was Cuddles. She was ten feet tall, including the ears, and her black-and-white hide suggested she might have held up a Holstein cow in some dark alley and was now wearing her clothes. My own blood-spattered outfit suggested I'd had an interesting night. Most horses would've been nervous about letting a woman covered with that much blood on their back, but Cuddles didn't seem to mind. Either it didn't bother her or she was a pragmatist who knew where her carrots were coming from. The city lay in front of me, deserted, quiet, and steeped in magic, unfurling its streets to the starlight like a moonlight flower. Magic ran deep through Atlanta tonight, like a current of some phantom river, slipping into the shadowy places and waking hungry things with needle-long teeth and glowing eyes. Anyone with a drop of common sense hid behind reinforced doors and barred windows after dark. Unfortunately for me, common sense was never among my virtues. As Cuddles quietly clopped her way down the streets, the sounds of her hoof beats unnaturally loud, the night shadows watched us and I watched them back. Let's play who can be a better killer. My sword and I love this game. None of the monsters took the bait. It might have been because of me, but most likely it was because one of them was moving parallel to my route. They smelled him, and they hid and hoped he would pass them by. It was almost...

Praise for Ilona Andrews and the #1 New York Times Bestselling Kate Daniels Novels

“Ilona Andrews's books are guaranteed good reads.”—Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author 

“Kate is a great kick-ass heroine.”—Locus

“One of the brightest voices in urban fantasy...Ilona Andrews delivers only the best.”—Jeaniene Frost, New York Times bestselling author

“One of the best urban fantasy series ever written!”—RT Book Reviews

“Andrews's edgy series stands apart.”—Library Journal

“Urban fantasy absolutely does not get much better than this.”—SF Signal

“I can’t think of another series so consistent, so well written, so full of wit and action and drama that always manages to give me exactly what I’m needing.”—Fiction Vixen

Autorentext

Ilona Andrews

Klappentext

Magic is coming and going in waves in post-Shift Atlanta-and each crest leaves danger in its wake in this gripping novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Kate Daniels series.

After breaking from life with the Pack, mercenary Kate Daniels and her mate-former Beast Lord Curran Lennart-are adjusting to a very different pace. While they're thrilled to escape all the infighting, Kate and Curran know that separating from the Pack completely is a process that will take time.

But when they learn that their friend Eduardo has gone missing, Kate and Curran shift their focus to investigate his disappearance. As they dig further into the merc's business, they discover that the Mercenary Guild has gone to hell and that Eduardo's recent assignments are connected in the most sinister way…

An ancient enemy has arisen, and Kate and Curran are the only ones who can stop it-before it takes their city apart piece by piece.

Zusammenfassung
Magic is coming and going in waves in post-Shift Atlanta—and each crest leaves danger in its wake in this gripping novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Kate Daniels series.
 
After breaking from life with the Pack, mercenary Kate Daniels and her mate—former Beast Lord Curran Lennart—are adjusting to a very different pace. While they’re thrilled to escape all the infighting, Kate and Curran know that separating from the Pack completely is a process that will take time.
 
But when they learn that their friend Eduardo has gone missing, Kate and Curran shift their focus to investigate his disappearance. As they dig further into the merc’s business, they discover that the Mercenary Guild has gone to hell and that Eduardo’s recent assignments are connected in the most sinister way…
 
An ancient enemy has arisen, and Kate and Curran are the only ones who can stop it—before it takes their city apart piece by piece.

Leseprobe

Chapter One

I rode through the night-drenched streets of Atlanta on a mammoth donkey. The donkey’s name was Cuddles. She was ten feet tall, including the ears, and her black-and-white hide suggested she might have held up a Holstein cow in some dark alley and was now wearing her clothes. My own blood-spattered outfit suggested I’d had an interesting night. Most horses would’ve been nervous about letting a woman covered with that much blood on their back, but Cuddles didn’t seem to mind. Either it didn’t bother her or she was a pragmatist who knew where her carrots were coming from.

The city lay in front of me, deserted, quiet, and steeped in magic, unfurling its streets to the starlight like a moonlight flower. Magic ran deep through Atlanta tonight, like a current of some phantom river, slipping into the shadowy places and waking hungry things with needle-long teeth and glowing eyes. Anyone with a drop of common sense hid behind reinforced doors and barred windows after dark. Unfortunately for me, common sense was never among my virtues. As Cuddles quietly clopped her way down the streets, the sounds of her hoof beats unnaturally loud, the night shadows watched us and I wa…