ISBN: 9798181937925 - saint of the deep: saint of wolves, book 2 (6 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - As New Orleans begins to fail from the wounds under its streets, a ruined detective and the guardian she refused to sacrifice must uncover the city's original bargain before its hidden rulers turn them-or the people they love-into the next seal.Weeks after the chamber collapse, New Orleans is outwardly recovering and privately rotting. Flooding patterns shift where they should not, power and transit failures cluster around old routes, people vanish near forgotten church properties, and the city's buried machinery begins answering pressure from below. Esmée, blamed for the overpass disaster and tainted by Delia's death, is forced into hiding near Saint Mercy with Thierry, Odette, Junie, and Milo. She can no longer work as a detective, but she also cannot stop investigating-especially when signs suggest that Alphonse's death removed only one operator, not the system behind him.Thierry's survival creates a second crisis. Contact with the breach has altered him: his instincts sharpen, his control frays under stress, and the bond with Esmée grows more reactive, intimate, and dangerous. Odette believes the breach is testing the weakened lock through him as much as through the city itself. When fragments of Father Noe's missing records and traces of August Vigne's hidden archive point toward a broader map of old civic sites, Esmée realizes the original pact was never confined to one chamber. The seal was part of a larger order in which political stability, economic growth, and controlled sacrifice were intertwined.At the same time, a surviving cover-up faction embedded in city institutions moves aggressively. Their goal is not to heal the breach but to stabilize it cheaply: control the narrative, discredit Esmée, capture Thierry, and force a substitute ritual before the city's decay becomes impossible to hide. Savard becomes part of the pressure-not necessarily as a true believer, but as an institutional actor willing to choose order over truth. Milo and Junie, now impossible to send back to ordinary life, become both assets and targets as they push for agency instead of protection.The search for a permanent solution leads Esmée and Thierry into the truth August died carrying: the old system endured because every generation accepted that love meant offering someone up. Book 2's climax turns on whether Esmée and Thierry will repeat that logic-through Thierry's martyrdom, Esmée's self-sacrifice, or Milo's exploitation-or break it and attempt a more dangerous, unproven resealing based on mutual consent rather than managed loss. They may stop the city from choosing a false solution, but doing so exposes a larger war over what New Orleans is built to feed, and what it would become if the old machinery were truly denied.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. As New Orleans begins to fail from the wounds under its streets, a ruined detective and the guardian she refused to sacrifice must uncover the city's original bargain before its hidden rulers turn them-or the people they love-into the next seal.Weeks after the chamber collapse, New Orleans is outwardly recovering and privately rotting. Flooding patterns shift where they should not, power and transit failures cluster around old routes, people vanish near forgotten church properties, and the city's buried machinery begins answering pressure from below. Esmee, blamed for the overpass disaster and tainted by Delia's death, is forced into hiding near Saint Mercy with Thierry, Odette, Junie, and Milo. She can no longer work as a detective, but she also cannot stop investigating-especially when signs suggest that Alphonse's death removed only one operator, not the system behind him.Thierry's survival creates a second crisis. Contact with the breach has altered him: his instincts sharpen, his control frays under stress, and the bond with Esmee grows more reactive, intimate, and dangerous. Odette believes the breach is testing the weakened lock through him as much as through the city itself. When fragments of Father Noe's missing records and traces of August Vigne's hidden archive point toward a broader map of old civic sites, Esmee realizes the original pact was never confined to one chamber. The seal was part of a larger order in which political stability, economic growth, and controlled sacrifice were intertwined.At the same time, a surviving cover-up faction embedded in city institutions moves aggressively. Their goal is not to heal the breach but to stabilize it cheaply: control the narrative, discredit Esmee, capture Thierry, and force a substitute ritual before the city's decay becomes impossible to hide. Savard becomes part of the pressure-not necessarily as a true believer, but as an institutional actor willing to choose order over truth. Milo and Junie, now impossible to send back to ordinary life, become both assets and targets as they push for agency instead of protection.The search for a permanent solution leads Esmee and Thierry into the truth August died carrying: the old system endured because every generation accepted that love meant offering someone up. Book 2's climax turns on whether Esmee and Thierry will repeat that logic-through Thierry's martyrdom, Esmee's self-sacrifice, or Milo's exploitation-or break it and attempt a more dangerous, unproven resealing based on mutual consent rather than managed loss. They may stop the city from choosing a false solution, but doing so exposes a larger war over what New Orleans is built to feed, and what it would become if the old machinery were truly denied. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. As New Orleans begins to fail from the wounds under its streets, a ruined detective and the guardian she refused to sacrifice must uncover the city's original bargain before its hidden rulers turn them-or the people they love-into the next seal.Weeks after the chamber collapse, New Orleans is outwardly recovering and privately rotting. Flooding patterns shift where they should not, power and transit failures cluster around old routes, people vanish near forgotten church properties, and the city's buried machinery begins answering pressure from below. Esmee, blamed for the overpass disaster and tainted by Delia's death, is forced into hiding near Saint Mercy with Thierry, Odette, Junie, and Milo. She can no longer work as a detective, but she also cannot stop investigating-especially when signs suggest that Alphonse's death removed only one operator, not the system behind him.Thierry's survival creates a second crisis. Contact with the breach has altered him: his instincts sharpen, his control frays under stress, and the bond with Esmee grows more reactive, intimate, and dangerous. Odette believes the breach is testing the weakened lock through him as much as through the city itself. When fragments of Father Noe's missing records and traces of August Vigne's hidden archive point toward a broader map of old civic sites, Esmee realizes the original pact was never confined to one chamber. The seal was part of a larger order in which political stability, economic growth, and controlled sacrifice were intertwined.At the same time, a surviving cover-up faction embedded in city institutions moves aggressively. Their goal is not to heal the breach but to stabilize it cheaply: control the narrative, discredit Esmee, capture Thierry, and force a substitute ritual before the city's decay becomes impossible to hide. Savard becomes part of the pressure-not necessarily as a true believer, but as an institutional actor willing to choose order over truth. Milo and Junie, now impossible to send back to ordinary life, become both assets and targets as they push for agency instead of protection.The search for a permanent solution leads Esmee and Thierry into the truth August died carrying: the old system endured because every generation accepted that love meant offering someone up. Book 2's climax turns on whether Esmee and Thierry will repeat that logic-through Thierry's martyrdom, Esmee's self-sacrifice, or Milo's exploitation-or break it and attempt a more dangerous, unproven resealing based on mutual consent rather than managed loss. They may stop the city from choosing a false solution, but doing so exposes a larger war over what New Orleans is built to feed, and what it would become if the old machinery were truly denied. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…