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Anglo-Saxon England, AD 997. Brother Galen is anxious about leaving the haven of his abbey. Suddenly reconciled with his father after being disowned, he fears he will never again fit in with his estranged family. But when he’s commissioned to produce a manuscript for the king, the shy scribe has the chance to visit his relatives after three years of banishment.

Dunkel, verführerisch sexy, und süchtig machend. Dramatisch und so spannend, dass du dich bei jeder Seite fragen wirst… Wer ist dieser König von Afterlife? Keira ist neu in der Stadt und flieht vor ihrer Vergangenheit. Eine Vergangenheit, die ihre Träume heimsucht, bis ein neuer Alptraum sie anfängt zu jagen… groß, dunkel und sexy. Ihr neuer Boss, Dominic Draven. Die Frage ist, was läuft in diesem berüchtigten Gothic Nachtclub in der kleinen Stadt Evergreen Falls? Und noch wichtiger, was hat sein mächtiger Besitzer mit ihr vor?

Stephen Norman is to inherit her father’s vast fortune and estate. She seeks to ask Leonard Everard (a wastrel) to marry her, but only to prove that she can ask a man to marry her and defy 19th-century convention which says a man can only ask a woman to marry. This sets into motion a showdown between two old rivals for her hand in marriage, as Harold An Wolf (a gentleman) is in love with her.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was born on August 28th, 1814, at 45 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, into a literary family with Huguenot, Irish and English roots. Between 1838 and 1840 Le Fanu had written and published twelve stories which purported to be the literary remains of an 18th-century Catholic priest called Father Purcell. Set mostly in Ireland they include classic stories of gothic horror, with grim, shadowed castles, as well as supernatural visitations from beyond the grave, together with madness and suicide.

Beneath the light of a full moon, the Nightbloods and Seers are dancing. They are dancing as they await another Awakening, a dream that defines every witch's destiny. It doesn't matter that the coven is cheering and anticipating her turn into womanhood, because Calli doesn't want any of it.