Böcker av Carrie Gessner

Sometimes, only when we're lost can we discover who we truly are. When Nessa and her fellow priestesses are abducted from their temple by bounty hunters, Nessa is the only one to escape. Unable to return to the sole home she's ever known, she is forced into the great wide world, where she will either forge her own path or leave her life up to chance. Along the way, she just might find a family, find herself, and find out what "home" truly means.

They executed Alvard Lestrange for treason.A necromancer.A wielder of Death Magic.This is the story of his victims, trapped in mundane objects for three centuries.This is the story of the lives they will, unwittingly or maliciously, destroy.12 authors. 12 stories. 12 souls, all caught in Lestrange's web.With work from: S.O. Green, Jessica Chanese, Joel Hunt, K.B. Elijah, Marcus Bines, Clint Foster, Aaron Hansen, Carrie Gessner, Holley Cornetto, Alanna Rovertson- Webb, Nerisha Kemraj & Kim Rei

Since their defeat at the hands of Valerius and his army three months prior, Aurelia and her friends are lost. Aurelia has renounced her country in order to do what she thinks is right-and to survive. Now, with Renfred in the dungeons and her fortitude waning, she sets off on a quest to find the Guardians of the Gift in the hopes of restoring magic to the land and driving away the invaders. Inside the castle, Edana and the resistance attempt to thwart Valerius's plan to give people magic by taking away their souls and turning them into soldiers driven by insatiable rage. But fear of her dangerous new magic holds her back, and navigating the political landscape might cause her to lose sight of herself. And Mira, empress of Mydrost, intends to challenge Valerius and his troops over Temidorus, but to do so, she must forge an alliance with Queen Minerva of Sunniva, Renfred's older sister. But the two leaders' clash of opinions and cultures might sink them before they've begun. They must trust in themselves and each other before Valerius's hunt tears the veil between this realm and the next.

A flower shop open only from dusk to dawn.A cult compound modified for post-apocalyptic survival.A refuge where the sun never rises.An alien adjusting to her new life on Earth.A free-spirited witch who teams up with a straight-laced detective.A thief whose quest for survival will alter the world.Find all this and more in fifteen speculative-fiction stories about finding beauty in chaos, strength in community, and humanity in the unexpected.