Shield of Winter

Zusatztext Praise for Nalini Singh and her Psy/Changeling series A sensual! dangerous adventure not to be missed.Lora Leigh! #1 New York Times bestselling author Nalini is brilliant. USA Today This series is so original and so different. Dark Faerie Tales I don't think there is a single paranormal series as well-planned! well-written! and downright fantabulous as Ms. Singh's Psy-Changeling series. All About Romance Wow. Breathtaking...Filled with smoldering heat! epic romance! and awesome action! it's everything I wanted and then some.Jaci Burton! New York Times bestselling author A standout series among the paranormal romance on the market today. Fresh Fiction I commend Nalini Singh for writing a completely unique and utterly mesmerizing series. Simply Romance Reviews Informationen zum Autor Nalini Singh Klappentext The "amazing [Psy/Changeling] series (USA Today) continues from the equally "amazing storyteller (Smexy Books)New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh Assassin. Soldier. Arrow. That is who Vasic is, who he will always be. His soul drenched in blood, his conscience heavy with the weight of all he's done, he exists in the shadows, far from the hope his people can almost touchif only they do not first drown in the murderous insanity of a lethal contagion. To stop the wave of death, Vasic must complete the simplest and most difficult mission of his life. For if the Psy race is to survive, the empaths must wake... Having rebuilt her life after medical "treatment that violated her mind and sought to suffocate her abilities, Ivy should have run from the black-clad Arrow with eyes of winter frost. But Ivy Jane has never done what she should. Now, she'll fight for her people, and for this Arrow who stands as her living shield, yet believes he is beyond redemption. But as the world turns to screaming crimson, even Ivy's fierce will may not be enough to save Vasic from the cold darkness... INCLUDES DELETED SCENES This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected proof Copyright © 2014 by Nalini Singh There was nothing left of the man he'd been. Vasic stared through the glass wall in front of him as the computronic gauntlet biologically fused to his left forearm hummed near silently in the diagnostic mode he'd initiated. Sleek black, the new invention remained relatively unstable, despite the constant and ongoing refinement by the medics and techs, but Vasic wasn't concerned about his life. He hadn't been concerned about anything for a long time. At first it had been his conditioning under Silence that kept him cold, his emotions on ice. Now, as the world navigated the first days of a new year, he was beyond Silence and into a numbness so vast, it was an endless grayness. The only reason he kept waking up in the morning was for the others, the ones in the squad who still had some hope of a normal life. It was far too late for him, his hands permanently stained with blood from the countless lives he'd taken in pursuit of a mandate that had proven false in a very ugly way. What is it? he said to the man clad in a black combat uniform who'd just entered the common area of Arrow Central Command. None of them were sociable, yet they maintained this space, having learned through bitter experience that even an Arrow couldn't always walk alone. Today the room was empty except for the two of them. Krychek has a theory. Aden came to stand beside Vasic, his dark eyes on the vista beyond the glass. It wasn't of the outside worldthe Arrows were creatures of shadow, and so they lived in the shadows, their headquarters buried deep underground in a location inaccessible to anyone who didn't know the correct routes and codes. Even a teleporter needed a visual lock, and there wer...

Praise for Nalini Singh and her Psy/Changeling series

“A sensual, dangerous adventure not to be missed.”—Lora Leigh, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Nalini is brilliant.”—USA Today

“This series is so original and so different.”—Dark Faerie Tales

“I don’t think there is a single paranormal series as well-planned, well-written, and downright fantabulous as Ms. Singh’s Psy-Changeling series.”—All About Romance

“Wow. Breathtaking...Filled with smoldering heat, epic romance, and awesome action, it’s everything I wanted and then some.”—Jaci Burton, New York Times bestselling author

“A standout series among the paranormal romance on the market today.”—Fresh Fiction

“I commend Nalini Singh for writing a completely unique and utterly mesmerizing series.”—Simply Romance Reviews

Autorentext

Nalini Singh

Klappentext

The "amazing [Psy/Changeling] series” (USA Today) continues from the equally "amazing storyteller” (Smexy Books)—New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh

Assassin. Soldier. Arrow. That is who Vasic is, who he will always be. His soul drenched in blood, his conscience heavy with the weight of all he's done, he exists in the shadows, far from the hope his people can almost touch—if only they do not first drown in the murderous insanity of a lethal contagion. To stop the wave of death, Vasic must complete the simplest and most difficult mission of his life. For if the Psy race is to survive, the empaths must wake...

Having rebuilt her life after medical "treatment” that violated her mind and sought to suffocate her abilities, Ivy should have run from the black-clad Arrow with eyes of winter frost. But Ivy Jane has never done what she should. Now, she'll fight for her people, and for this Arrow who stands as her living shield, yet believes he is beyond redemption. But as the world turns to screaming crimson, even Ivy's fierce will may not be enough to save Vasic from the cold darkness...

INCLUDES DELETED SCENES

Zusammenfassung
The “amazing [Psy/Changeling] series” (USA Today) continues from the equally “amazing storyteller” (Smexy Books)—New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh

Assassin. Soldier. Arrow. That is who Vasic is, who he will always be. His soul drenched in blood, his conscience heavy with the weight of all he’s done, he exists in the shadows, far from the hope his people can almost touch—if only they do not first drown in the murderous insanity of a lethal contagion. To stop the wave of death, Vasic must complete the simplest and most difficult mission of his life. For if the Psy race is to survive, the empaths must wake…

Having rebuilt her life after medical “treatment” that violated her mind and sought to suffocate her abilities, Ivy should have run from the black-clad Arrow with eyes of winter frost. But Ivy Jane has never done what she should. Now, she’ll fight for her people, and for this Arrow who stands as her living shield, yet believes he is beyond redemption. But as the world turns to screaming crimson, even Ivy’s fierce will may not be enough to save Vasic from the cold darkness…

INCLUDES DELETED SCENES

Leseprobe
This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected proof

Copyright © 2014 by Nalini Singh

There was nothing left of the man he’d been.

Vasic stared through the glass wall in front of him as the computronic gauntlet biologically fused to his left forearm hummed near silently in the diagnostic mode he’d initiated. Sleek black, the new invention remained relatively unstable, despite the constant and ongoing refinement by the medics and techs, but Vasic wasn’t concerned about his life.

He hadn’t been concerned about anything for a long time. At first it had been his conditioning under Silence that kept him cold, his emotions on ice. Now, as the world navigated the first days of a new year, he was…