Bücher von Brien Feathers

No crime is too atrocious to save a beloved.Storm spirit Reiko meets the peculiar girl, Yuki, at the Palace of a Thousand Rays to continue the story of Immortal Ayame and Warlord Kyuzo on the road to Sunlit City.Nara winter is harsh, and enemies wait around the bend. The entourage arrives at the capital with a loss of life. Yet the dying is only beginning.When the emperor crowns Sora, the Ishii clashes head-on with Prince Hissing Blade. In the twisted games the dark diviner plays Ayame becomes a hostage, and to save her Kyuzo must break an oath to his emperor.The Sinai War begins in the second installment of the Royal Diviner Trilogy, and heavy losses mount on both sides.Full of heartbreak, betrayal, magic, and morally grey characters, Find Me is a dark fantasy tale with a hefty dose of romance.Reader discretion is advised for violence and intimate situations.

Guard your heart and go home or fall for a stranger and perish.Reiko is the immortal spirit of the storm. Seeking to unravel a reoccurring dream that perplexes her, she visits the mortal realm during the Soul Festival and boards a train to the historical district of Sunlit City. There, in the imperial palace of old Nara, she finds no answers, only more questions as a peculiar girl indulges her with a tale of a disgraced deity and a mortal warlord.Ayame has a bad temper. She slapped the Immortal Emperor's sorceress, and her punishment was to spend a decade on earth as a mortal-a task easier said than done.Nara is amidst its centuries long warring era, the age of the warlords. To navigate this treacherous new world, Ayame befriends a wine-loving, trickster fox spirit, and scrapes by as a servant in the household of one of the greater clans. Toiling day and night, she's made do for five years and dreams of the day she can return home.But war arrives. When death announces itself outside her door, she assumes the identity of a noble and finds herself betrothed to the youngest son of an enemy clan, his father a ruthless warlord. To live, Ayame must play her role, but she soon she finds herself dangerously drawn not to her intended husband, but to the infamous warlord himself.In the tumultuous world of a warring empire, trouble is always on the horizon. Betrayals run deep within families and clans, and nothing is as it seems. All Ayame wants is to survive her banishment and return home, yet she may risk it all for a mortal man.A vicious killer, twice her age, nothing is right about him, including his insanely possessive concubine out to get Ayame. She knows it, but can she control her temperament, or will she find herself at odds with yet another court, this time a deadly one? A slow burn dark fantasy, Remember Me is Book 1 of the Royal Diviner Trilogy, and comes with content advisory for violence and intimate situations.

To have a heart is to love, isn't it?The faerie war has devastated the world, and what little remains of humanity lives underground as vampires.Kara is a half-blood. Her mother was human, but her father was not. She works as a hostess in one of the many pleasure dens of Nocturne, a vampire nest in a catacomb. Earning her blood one night at a time, Kara lives as peacefully as she can in a dying world.For decades her life has been the same... until she meets a stranger who may be able to grant her fondest wish-to be human. But nothing comes free in this brutal world, and when the faeries come knocking on the door she must choose between saving the life of a stranger or protecting her own secret.Lucien is a powerful telepath and a pureblood vampire, meaning he was born as one. He's never seen the sun. On a mission from his queen, he travels to the city of the undead, Nocturne, territory of a different vampire clan.When betrayal turns a negotiation deadly, he finds an unlikely guardian in a den hostess. But can their fledgling bond survive when he learns that she's the enemy?Delve into the dark world of Ugly Angels, where newfound love is tested, and old loyalties are torn.This adult dark fantasy tale comes with a content warning for strong language, graphic violence, and intimate situations.

The gods have placed their wager and now all bets are off.When Alexander's seeker spell fails to find Marina, the tsar grows disheartened, believing that the princess may be lost at sea. To soften the blow he's afforded a little time with his beloved Sai. But the Akari prince must leave when bad news arrives from the Court of Lions.Mistakenly, Marina lands at the western shore of Muscovy, deep into Red territory. Treachery runs among her company as Marina struggles to find her way back to the tsar, and her relationship with Yuri turns a page when hunters arrive looking for her.War erupts between the Republic and the alchemists when the Federation attacks the Red Capital, but it's not a fight the mundane state can win alone.The end of the long night has been told, but who lives to see the light is not yet known. In the final battle between the Alchemist Federation and the Court of White Rose, who will be victorious, and who will perish?The death of the White Rose has been foreseen since the birth of the chosen, and that is the wager of the gods in the final chapter of the Sun War Trilogy. Is the fate of men set, or can the gods be challenged?

Darkness may come and it may be long.The civil war between the Court of White Rose and the revolutionist Reds has raged on for a decade, leaving the throne bankrupt and the tsardom on its last legs. Prince Alexander, the youngest in the family of royal white witches, is only nineteen and infatuated with a danseur of the Grand Theater. He yearns for peace and dreams of freedom from obligations to his father. But when the tsar is assassinated and the Razumov stronghold falls to alchemist weapons, Alexander is plunged into a world of dark magic, treachery, and brutality. Through trials that test his soul, he becomes the Warlock of Muscovy, Alexander the Cruel, all the while falling in love with a foreign prince who saved his life.Twenty years later, his daughter Marina faces tribulations of her own. Taken hostage by the Federation and imprisoned on foreign lands, she must reconcile with her alchemist lineage, face off with an old enemy of her family, and escape in time to save the warlock bent on a perilous mission. On the way, she unearths a lie that has been told for two decades. But what can she do with such a secret if all ears are deaf to the truth?The second installment in the Sun War Trilogy, this intensely dark tale of magic and mayhem is full of grey characters that blur the line between good and evil.Content warning for strong language, graphic violence, and intimate situations.

When words fail, bring out the guns, swords, and death spells. Marina is the daughter of Tsar Alexander the Cruel, the most powerful warlock. She's also a princess of the Court of White Rose. The only problem is that she's mundane-she has no magic.On her sixteenth birthday Marina fled from her father's tsardom to the revolutionist side of Muscovy, and five years later she's doing all right, working as a seamstress in the United Workers' Factory. Despite the political police, the never-ending witch hunt, and her best friend living as an orange cat, she's happy. She gets along with her cottage mates and is even seeing a guy... until the city blows up, she's implied in the sabotage, her guy turns out to be an enemy, her friends are murdered, and an alchemist maniac hunts her down for a blood vendetta.With the Red Army and the Alchemist Federation on her heels, Marina runs back to the Court of White Rose, but when death follows her home she must uncover a prophecy, reconcile with the warlock, and stop an oncoming war. It's a tall order for a seamstress.The first book in the Sun War Trilogy, this intensely dark tale of magic and mayhem is full of grey characters that blur the line between good and evil.Content warning for strong language, graphic violence, and intimate situations.

Brethren turn to enemies, and enemies to allies.Constantine bows to Keket as he recalls his former self, but the faith of the mad priest conflicts with his loyalty to the queen. As the dark queen wreaks havoc aboard the Redeemer, the priest must choose between his queen and his God.Commander Drake and his champion Marcus quarrel like children. Unbeknownst to them both, the deal has turned sour, and calamity awaits at sea. Before there is any hope of saving the realm from the apocalypse, Drake must first do what he cannot: kill Sasuke.Chosen by the dark queen as her champion and tricked into accepting the task, Warlord Sasuke must defeat Drake to save his beloved Giselle.The fate of the realm shall be decided in the battle of wills between father and son. The victor takes all in the war for the realm.