Ergebnis für "Second Chance" in Krimis & Thriller

Nach den verheerenden Ereignissen in der British Library, bei denen sich Malice – ein Wesen, das sich von der Furcht der Menschen ernährt – aus seinem Buch befreit hat, wird Bookford Manor bis auf Weiteres geschlossen. Währenddessen bricht weltweit Chaos aus: Die Limbuswesen bringen immer mehr Buchfiguren um, Bibliotheken und Buchhandlungen werden in Brand gesteckt, die Leute hören auf zu lesen, und die Idea schwindet. Annie und ihren Freunden bleibt nicht viel Zeit. Sie müssen Malice aufhalten! Doch reicht Annies Gabe aus, um das Schicksal der Welt zu verändern?

I need answers only my father can provide. Separated from birth, we’ve only recently connected. Still, I have no one else to turn to. The Deltites are hunting me and they’re close now. We’ll fight our final battle soon. Needing more information, I force him to tell me a story about the beginning, my beginning. He sheds new light on my mom, on my grandfather Sicheii, and on how I started down this path. He spins a tale about love, a recent murder, and mysterious strangers who come to town looking for a medicine man, my grandfather.

Seventeen-year-old Leah MacKenzie is heartless. An artificial heart in a backpack is keeping her alive. However, this route offers her only a few years. And with her rare blood type, a transplant isn’t likely. Living like you are dying isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. But when a heart becomes available, she’s given a second chance at life. Except Leah discovers who the donor was - a boy from her school - and they’re saying he killed himself. Plagued with dreams since the transplant, she realizes she may hold the clues to what really happened.