Filtrer
Ava Reid
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Elle connaît cette histoire : son regard rend les hommes fous.
Elle sait qu'elle va être mariée à une brute venue d'Écosse qui ne rend jamais les armes. Elle sait que la cour hostile qu'il lui fera sera emprunte de soupçons. Elle sait qu'elle devra utiliser toute sa ruse et sa magie pour survivre. Elle sait que ce Macbeth cache lui aussi des secrets.
Ce qu'elle ne sait pas, c'est qu'une prophétie pèse sur les épaules de son mari comme une armure encombrante. Ce qu'elle ne sait pas, c'est que sa magie à elle, est plus grande et plus dangereuse encore, et qu'elle menacera l'ordre du monde.
Elle ne le sait pas encore. Mais cela viendra. -
Seule la mer est notre ennemie.
Effy Sayre a toujours cru aux légendes du Petit Peuple. Hantée depuis son enfance par des visions du roi des fées, elle ne trouve de réconfort que dans les pages d'Angharad, l'épopée d'Emrys Myrddin, son auteur préféré. Le livre en lambeaux est tout ce qui lui permet de survivre à ses études d'architecture. Aussi, lorsqu'elle remporte un concours pour restaurer le manoir du défunt Myrddin, elle est persuadée que c'est un signe du destin.
Domaine décrépit sur le point de s'effondrer dans une mer affamée, le Manoir d'Hiraeth est un lieu perché à la frontière entre les mondes, peuplé d'êtres mystérieux. Parmi eux se trouve Preston Héloury, jeune étudiant en littérature, bien déterminé à prouver que Myrddin est un imposteur.
Enquêtant sur l'héritage de l'écrivain, les deux étudiants découvriront peu à peu que des forces obscures conspirent contre eux, et que la vérité pourrait les mener à la ruine. -
A STUDY IN DROWNING - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 NYT BESTSELLING DARK ACADEMIA, RIVALS TO
Ava Reid
- Random House UK
- 7 Juin 2024
- 9781529157048
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WOLF AND THE WOODSMAN AND JUNIPER AND THORN
''A love letter to stories - and to everyone silenced or forgotten in their retelling.'' Allison Saft, author of A Far Wilder Magic
Effy has always believed in fairy tales. She''s had no choice. Since childhood, she''s been haunted by visions of the Fairy King. She''s found solace only in the pages of Angharad - a beloved epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King, and then destroys him.
Effy''s tattered copy is all that''s keeping her afloat through her stifling first term her prestigious architecture college. So when the late author''s family announces a contest to design his house, Effy fells certain this is her destiny.
But Hiraeth Manor is an impossible task: a musty, decrepit estate on the brink of crumbling into a hungry sea. And when Effy arrives, she finds she isn''t the only one who''s made a temporary home there. Preston Heloury, a stodgy young literature scholar, is studying Myrddin''s papers and is determined to prove her favourite author is a fraud.
As the two rival students investigate the reclusive author''s legacy, piecing together clues through his letters, books, and diaries, they discover that the house''s foundation isn''t the only thing that can''t be trusted. There are dark forces, both mortal and magical, conspiring against them - and the truth may bring them both to ruin. -
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The Lady knows the stories: how her eyes induce madness in men.
The Lady knows she will be wed to the Scottish brute, who does not leave his warrior ways behind when he comes to the marriage bed.
The Lady knows his hostile, suspicious court will be a game of strategy, requiring all of her wiles and hidden witchcraft to survive.
But the Lady does not know her husband has occult secrets of his own. She does not know that prophecy girds him like armor. She does not know that her magic is greater and more dangerous, and that it will threaten the order of the world.
She does not know this yet. But she will. -
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The gorgeous paperback edition features pink stained edges and French flaps.
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The Lady knows the stories: how her eyes induce madness in men.
The Lady knows she will be wed to the Scottish brute, who does not leave his warrior ways behind when he comes to the marriage bed.
The Lady knows his hostile, suspicious court will be a game of strategy, requiring all of her wiles and hidden witchcraft to survive.
But the Lady does not know her husband has occult secrets of his own. She does not know that prophecy girds him like armor. She does not know that her magic is greater and more dangerous, and that it will threaten the order of the world.
She does not know this yet. But she will.
