The Descent: Book Three of the Taker Trilogy

By Alma Katsu

Alma Katsu’s acclaimed trilogy—a supernatural epic that started with The Taker and sparked a chase all over the world in The Reckoning—comes to a gorgeous end, and brings Lanore McIlvrae to a last come across with Adair, her robust nemesis.

Dismayed by way of Adair’s otherworldly powers and fearful of his passionate mood, Lanore has run from him throughout time, even imprisoning him in the back of a wall for 2 centuries to avoid wasting Jonathan, her everlasting love. yet rather than punishing her for her betrayal, Adair declared his love for Lanore once again and set her free.

Now, Lanore has tracked Adair to his mystical island domestic to invite for one final desire. The Queen of the Underworld is preserving Jonathan as her consort, and Lanore desires Adair to ship her to the hereafter in order that she might beg for his free up. Will she honor her promise to come to Adair? Or is her real purpose to be reunited with Jonathan at any price?

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Like sirens, they have been. They sought after me to return down from my horse and spend the evening with them. They attempted to enchant me, feeding me wormwood tea and poppy-seed cake, and salads of nasturtiums and morning glories. you recognize me, Lanore; you recognize i've got a powerful structure, yet after a meal like that, i used to be stoned out of my brain and tame as a home cat. They waited until eventually we have been in mattress to inform me that they have been witches. I’d by no means been round girls magic-handlers earlier than. the good alchemists I’d met had all been males. ” He stroked his beard thoughtfully. “I furnish you, there could have been a couple of lady alchemists again then, notwithstanding i might think that they’d have hidden their curiosity, because it wouldn’t were to their virtue to be chanced on, yet multiple or ? I doubt it. And if there have been, this very perform of setting apart from different practitioners, the good practitioners, might were their undoing. simply because that's the way you turn into nice. Alchemy isn't really anything you could grasp by yourself. you want to study from the discoveries of others. “I discovered the witch sisters’ magic disconcerting before everything, yet bought used to it quickly adequate. Adepts known as it ‘kitchen magic,’ the sort that’s handed from one new release to the subsequent with no formal education; it’s roundly regarded as primitive. The sisters didn’t are looking to pay attention that, in fact. They have been proud, and didn’t are looking to be judged or seemed down on, yet I had whatever they desperately sought after: a ebook of spells. That’s just like the holy grail to them, and when they figured out I had one on me, they got here up with a plan to rob me. They tied me up, yet I controlled to flee. ” I settled with regards to him at the pillows, to percentage his sunny spot. “You couldn’t were too happy approximately that. ” “I didn’t delight in it, no. I enable my anger get the higher of me, I’m afraid. I destroyed their home,” he admitted sheepishly. That gave the impression of the Adair of previous, the Adair I knew, with a mood as explosive as a nuclear warhead. “And they swore to take revenge on me in the future. ” “And you think that those women are Penthy and Bronwyn, get back to make solid on their risk? ” I requested, doubtful. “Reincarnation? ” I felt his weight shift restlessly beside me. “Maybe . . . why now not? There’s anything approximately this island that makes issues occur. This position has a paranormal background, yet i feel there’s extra to it than that. i believe there’s a powerful magical strength the following. That’s why Crowley’s disciple got here right here, that’s what drew me right here. That strength may have enabled the witch sisters back. ” “I feel something is possible,” I stated, attempting to not sound as doubtful as I felt. “Let’s say, for argument’s sake, that it’s actual, that those witches have get back via Robin and Terry. Have they performed whatever to you, performed whatever malicious? ” “Not that involves mind,” he admitted. “What do you're thinking that they’d wish from you? ” “I don’t understand. ” i may inform I’d vexed him by way of the darkish glance that clouded his face. “Look, I know it sounds far-fetched, yet i understand how i believe and that i imagine they’re Penthy and Bronwyn.

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