Bücher der Reihe The London Charismatics

An arcane horror emerges from battle and blood. To stop it, Lily must risk becoming everything she fears.In a Europe devastated by four years of war, a platoon of elite Italian soldiers is horrifically and mysteriously slaughtered. Strangford's arcane ability can uncover the truth behind the massacre, but a violent fate stalks him from the trenches. It's up to Lily to change its course.To save the man she loves, she must gather allies scattered by war, grief and betrayal. Her quest will take her from a landscape of wire and guns to ice-dimmed caverns and an ancient forest haunted by a threat far more terrible than mere wolves.For there is more at stake than Strangford's life, or even the outcome of the war. The future itself is threatened by monsters from the far side of time, born from the bloodsoaked work of Lily's worst enemy. Everything hinges on opening herself to the darkest potential of a power that could tear her apart-and on who is left to pull her back together again.

When an old enemy resurfaces, Lily is forced to choose between friendship and fate in this special London Charismatics novella.In the wake of a devastating loss, Lily is about to receive an unwelcome visit from Jack Cannon, the uncrowned Lord of Limehouse.Sam's former boss is dangerously close to discovering the occult truth about the denizens of The Refuge, information he will ruthlessly exploit. Sam, obsessed with vengeance, is poised to walk straight into Cannon's trap.Only Lily knows what it will cost him.As war blackens the skies of Europe and newspapers grow with the lists of the dead, Lily takes to the gritty streets of the East End in a fight that will put all her skills to the ultimate test.To stop Sam from making a terrible mistake, Lily will have to betray him-and embrace a dark and terrifying truth about the nature of her charismatic power.Return to a gothic and mysterious Edwardian London with this thrilling London Charismatics novella set between the events of The Shadow of Water and Bridge of Ash.