Bøger af Kerri Hawkins

The story of Ryan Alexander continues in this third installment of the Blood Legacy series. Although superficially resembling a vampire, Ryan possesses all of the mythical creature's abilities and none of its weaknesses. Surrounded by ancient beings who seek to dominate her by force or seduction, she has become the most powerful of her Kind. Due to Victor's illness, she is compelled to lead the hierarchy. Ryan assumes command but is troubled by dark dreams, images that do not belong to any of her Kind. With growing concern, Ryan realizes the dreams belong to one preceding her father. Just as she begins to solidify power, new enemies appear, challenging not only her supremacy but her conception of all that she is. Once thought immortal, she is confronted with the unimaginable: defeat and destruction. For the first time in her life, Ryan faces the possibility of death. And although many of the predators of her Kind would face such a fate with horror or dread...Ryan finds it exhilarating.

In the past, a young peasant boy grows to manhood in a violent, bloodthirsty world. In the present, a mysterious woman is found in the morgue and slowly begins returning to life. Susan Ryerson, a genetic researcher, treats the mortally injured woman and against her will is drawn into Ryan's world. She learns of Victor, the man who gave Ryan immortality, and learns of Ryan's terrible revenge against those who killed her parents. The story weaves through six centuries, from the battle of Agincourt to the corruption and perversity of the Borgia Pope's court. Susan soon learns of the Others, the creatures who are also Ryan's Kind, and only then begins to understand the dark and erotic world that Ryan lives in. Against her better judgment, Susan Ryerson continues to seek the secrets of Ryan's immortality for the sake of science. And she begins to suspect that Ryan has not told her everything...

A murder has been committed, an impossibility in a super surveillance society where everyone lives under the influence of augmented reality 24 hours a day. Zen Guardians are tasked with maintaining the competing illusions, but Zen 12 is no ordinary Guardian. When the Echelon Council needs someone to investigate the crime, they summon her. Garrett, Zen 12, knows that the World Councils are less concerned with the fact that someone is dead than that the violence went undetected. Murder would merely be a failure of a predictive algorithm; but the lack of detection? A catastrophic flaw in the system. In a world where everyone sees what they want to see, and no one goes off the grid for even a second, Zen Guardians wield enormous power. But Garrett's most potent weapons may prove useless because it appears her adversary is not on the grid, another impossibility that sends a shudder through the World Councils. Murder escalates to bizarre terrorism, and increasingly, it seems her invisible opponent is trying to send her a message. Ultimately, Zen 12 must make a choice between enlightenment or persistent illusion, if indeed she herself can tell the difference.