Amalia et Alice sont jumelles. Si elles se ressemblent trait pour trait, tout les sépare. Amalia est droite, douce et sensible : Alice perfide, égoïste et dure. Mais ces différences ne seraient rien sans une malédiction ancestrale, qui condamne Amalia et Alice à se déchirer : la prophétie des Soeurs. L'une d'elle représente la Porte ouverte sur le Mal et ses démons, l'autre est la Gardienne, bouclier de la Sagesse. Le destin des soeurs maudites est-il scellé ? Les apparences sont parfois trompeuses...

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"Ein fantastischer Jugendroman, bei dem der Leser in eine Welt hineingezogen wird und von Liebe bis Verrat alles hautnah miterlebt!" (LizzyNet.de )

„Als ich das Projekt angeboten bekam, erfasste mich dieselbe innere Aufregung wie damals, als ich »Biss zum Morgengrauen« zum ersten Mal las. Es ist ein süchtig machendes Leseerlebnis.“ (Megan Tingley, Verlegerin von "Biss zum Morgengrauen" )

„Debutautorin Michelle Zink nimmt ihre Leser auf eine unvergessliche Reise mit, auf der die schicksalhafte Entscheidung einer Schwester Auswirkungen geradezu biblischen Ausmaßes hat.“ (Publishers Weekly )

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Noch mitreißender, noch dramatischer, noch emotionaler: Band 2 des Romantasy-Bestsellers!

Schlimme Nachrichten ereilen Lia, als sie nach einem Weg sucht, um die unheilvolle Prophezeiung zu beenden: Ihre Schwester und Todfeindin Alice schreckt vor nichts zurück, um das Tor für Samael zu öffnen, und hat sich sogar Lias Freund James gefügig gemacht. Nun bleibt Lia nur noch eine Chance, um das Blatt zu wenden: Sie muss die gefahrvolle Reise nach Altus, zum Sitz der Schwesternschaft, auf sich nehmen. Zu spät erkennt sie, dass sich in ihrer Gruppe ein Verräter befindet. Fast hätte dieser Lia ins Verderben gestürzt – da rettet sie in letzter Sekunde Dimitri, ein Gesandter der Schwesternschaft. Um Lia vor dem Zugriff Samaels zu schützen, gibt er die Neutralität auf, zu der ihn seine Position ehern verpflichtet …

Claire Kincaid’s family has been in business for over fifty years.

The voodoo business.

Part of the International Guild of High Priests and Priestesses, a secret society that have practiced voodoo for generations, the Kincaid’s run an underground supply house for authentic voodoo supplies. Claire plays along, filling orders for powders, oils and other bizarre ingredients in the family store, but she has a secret.

She doesn’t believe.

Struggling to reconcile her modern sensibilities with a completely unscientific craft based on suspicion, Claire can’t wait to escape New Orleans – and voodoo – when she goes to college, a desire that creates almost constant conflict in her secret affair with Xander Toussaint, son of the Guild’s powerful founding family.

But when a mysterious customer places an order for a deadly ingredient, Claire begins to realize that there’s more to voodoo – and the families that make up the Guild – than meets the eye.

Including her own.

As she bands together with the other firstborns of the Guild, she comes face to face with a deadly enemy – and the disbelief that may very well kill her.

Nell Zink’s debut novel follows a downwardly mobile secretary from Philadelphia who marries an ambitious soon-to-be-expat pharmaceutical researcher in hopes that she will never work again. They end up in Germany, where it turns out that her new husband is tougher, sneakier, more sincere, more contradictory, and smarter than she is; she’d naturally thought it was impossible. Life becomes complicated with affairs, birding, and eco-terrorism. Bad things happen, yet they stagger through, clinging to each other from a safe distance. Eventually our heroine commences building a life of her own, in imitation of her husband, one soggy brick at a time.

“Who is Nell Zink? She claims to be an expatriate living in northeast Germany. Maybe she is; maybe she isn’t. I don’t know. I do know that this first novel arrives with a voice that is fully formed: mature, hilarious, terrifyingly intelligent, and wicked. The novel is about a bird-loving American couple that moves to Europe and becomes, basically, eco-terrorists. This is strange, and interesting, but in between is some writing about marriage, love, fidelity, Europe, and saving the earth that is as funny and as grown-up as anything I’ve read in years. And there are some jokes in here that a young Don DeLillo would kill to have written. I hope he doesn’t kill Nell Zink.” KEITH GESSEN

Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The couple are mismatched from the start — she’s a lesbian, he’s gay — but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son behind.

Worried that Lee will have her committed for her erratic behavior, Peggy goes underground, adopting an African American persona for her and her daughter. They squat in a house in an African American settlement, eventually moving to a housing project where no one questions their true racial identities. As Peggy and Lee’s children grow up, they must contend with diverse emotional issues: Byrdie must deal with his father’s compulsive honesty; while Karen struggles with her mother’s lies — she knows neither her real age, nor that she is “white,” nor that she has any other family.

Years later, a minority scholarship lands Karen at the University of Virginia, where Byrdie is in his senior year. Eventually the long lost siblings will meet, setting off a series of misunderstandings and culminating in a comedic finale worthy of Shakespeare.