There is something dark in him, something growing stronger by the day. Lenny, the friend she lost years ago, is safe, the monster who kidnapped him is dead, and this war cannot last long with so much raw power ranged against the enemy.īut Lenny is not the man he was. In the midst of a building magical war, Kim Reed thought she had found a bit of peace, a silver lining. She is not ready for wizard politics, for war, or for dealing with spies that can manipulate her dreams.Īll she wants is her friend back, but there are Shadows standing in her way. With her own magic weak and atrophied, Kim isn't sure how useful she would be in a fight, and her years of research on the undead have made her an object of suspicion wherever she goes. The Votadini, an ancient Circle of Scottish wizards, are making yet another bid for dominance, and this time, they may be backed by black magic. Kim Reed has spent six years searching for a lost friend, but her search is interrupted by the threat of war. Now, with no choice but to obey the Twarz, she must contend with forces outside her understanding, fighting in a war that will never end.Īnd still she can’t be sure that her freedom was a fair price for her life.

Strange though her life has always been, Jadwiga could never have expected to wake from her own murder in a bizarre mirror world, chained body and soul to a terrifyingly powerful being that calls itself Twarz Cienia, the Shadow’s Face. Jadwiga Dąbrowska is a mora, a creature whose spirit feeds on the dreams of others. Perhaps she can save Lenny from his captor and from the spark of violence growing inside him… Trapped by Sebastian's lethal mind control and by the compulsion of his own dual nature, Lenny's only hope is Kim, a practical young wizard tasked with hunting Sebastian down, but her ancient and powerful family is not nearly as accepting as she. Worse, Lenny is also a medium, a creature born for the sole purpose of aiding the dead, and Sebastian is definitely a dead thing in need of help. Shy, insecure, and literally unable to kill, he tries very hard to avoid notice until the night he is kidnapped by a creature far worse, a vicious abuser determined to turn him into what a vampire ought to be.

It ends in victory… or a world drowning in Shadows, overrun with Death.Ĭatch up on Books 1-3 of the Liminality Series in preparation for the release of Book 4 in 2018. With the bitter rage of a wounded vampire. With the hidden strength of a young wizard, With the capture of girl who dwells in dreams, It begins with the breaking of a gentle monster,

The Van Helsing Legacy by M.R. Graham