Kendare Blake, autrice classée parmi les meilleures ventes du New York Times, revient avec ce troisième opus très attendu de la série Three Dark Crowns !

Et même si Arsinoé, Mirabella et Katharine ont chacune leurs comptes à régler, une autre reine sème le trouble sur l'île de Fennbirn.
La reine Katharine a attendu toute sa vie de porter la couronne. Mais maintenant qu'elle est au pouvoir, les murmures dissidents se font plus forts de jour en jour.
Il y a également l'épineuse question de ses soeurs : sont-elles réellement mortes ou attendent-elles dans l'ombre pour usurper le trône ?
Mirabella et Arsinoé sont en vie, cachées sur le continent, mais elles doivent faire face à leur propre cauchemar : la visite répétée d'un spectre qu'elles pensent être la légendaire reine bleue. Son doigt putride pointant vers la mer est on ne peut plus clair : retournez sur Fennbirn.
Jules se cache, elle aussi. Ses seules confidentes, une guerrière nommée Émilia et son amie oracle Mathilde, la poussent à accepter un rôle qu'elle ne peut s'imaginer remplir : la reine maudite par la légion qui conduira une armée rebelle aux portes de la capitale.
Voilà une rébellion dans laquelle cette mystérieuse reine bleue pourrait bien jouer un rôle plus important que quiconque aurait pu l'imaginer...
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  Ne manquez surtout pas Five Dark Fates, la conclusion palpitante de cette saga !

Two Dark Reigns

L'affrontement pour la couronne a débuté et les événements inoubliables de la Révélation ont laissé leur marque dam l'esprit des trois mirs. Katharine, autrefois cette faible et frêle reine, est devenue étonnamment forte. Arsinoé a découvert un secret lié à son don qui pourrait la conduire à son salut ou à sa perte. Enfin, la puissante Mirabelle, pensant qu'Arsinoé la trahie, est fin prête à en découdre. En pleine année de l'Ascension, les triplées vont devoir faire face à des attaques qui les pousseront à remettre leurs destins et leur progression vers le trône en question. Leurs amis tout comme leurs ennemis leur forcent la main, les menant à une issue bouleversante qui changera à jamais tous les protagonistes impliqués.

Three Dark Crowns Tome 2

Queens of Fennbirn contains two gripping stories from the New York Times bestselling Three Dark Crowns universe, written by Kendare Blake. The Young Queens is the story of the three queens when they were born, before they were separated - it gives a short glimpse of the time when they all lived together, loved each other and protected one another. It's also the story of the day they were torn apart and the immediate years that followed before the opening of Three Dark Crowns. The Oracle Queen - historically, baby queens born with the sight gift were drowned. This had been the practice for hundreds of years, so long that few were even born any more, as if the Goddess knew it would be a waste. It is a harsh sentence, but necessary, for it is well-known that in a queen the sight gift will run strong. Strong enough to drive her mad. This is the tale of the last sight-gift queen to be allowed to live. She was overcome by paranoia and false visions, driven past the brink by the phantom thoughts of others in her head, so she set upon the capital with bloody ruin, murdering whole houses, whole family lines, without trial. Or at least, that is how the tale is told. This is her story.

Queens of Fennbirn - Two Three Dark Crowns Novellas

Cas Lowood a hérité de son père une charge bien étrange : il tue les morts. Armé d’un poignard que lui seul peut maîtriser, Cas parcourt le monde accompagné de sa sorcière de mère et de son chat, véritable radar à fantômes. Sa prochaine mission : anéantir Anna Korlov, dite « Anna vêtue de sang ». Encore vêtue de la robe qu’elle portait le soir de sa mort, l’esprit de la jeune fille hante la maison où elle a été assassinée. Malheur à quiconque ose s’aventurer dans sa demeure : on n’en sort pas vivant. Ce qui devait être un travail de routine se solde par un désastre. De chasseur, il devient la proie. Anna, la fascinante Anna, est bien plus puissante qu’il ne le pensait. Pourtant, elle a choisi de l’épargner… Pourquoi ? Qu’est-ce qui la rend si différente des autres fantômes ? Et qu’est-ce qui le pousse à remettre sa vie en jeu pour tenter de la tuer – ou de lui parler à nouveau ?

Anna (Fille des cauchemars , #1)

Three black witches, born to a descending queen. One would rise to become queen in her place. Perhaps the strongest of the three. Perhaps the cleverest. Or perhaps it would be the girl born under the best shield of luck. Katharine, Arsinoe and Mirabella - three young queens born to fulfil their destiny - to fight to the death to win the crown. But before they were poisoner, elemental and naturalist, they were children, sisters and friends .

The Young Queens - A Three Dark Crowns novella

Three dark sisters rise to fight. Allegiances shift. Bonds break. Secrets surface. Mirabella has returned to the capital, seemingly under a banner of truce. Katharine maintains her rule over Fennbirn - for now - but at huge personal cost. Arsinoe is lost, the responsibility of stopping the ravaging mist heavy on her shoulders. As oldest and youngest circle each other, and Katharine begins to yearn for the closeness that Mirabella and Arsinoe share, the dead queens hiss caution. They whisper that Mirabella is not to be trusted. But even they are drawn to her power .

Five Dark Fates

«La ville est plus hantée que je ne l'aurais cru. Une énergie macabre fourmille dans le sol, prête à éclore. Des mouvements imperceptibles ne cessent d'attirer mon attention. Je sais que, quelque part, se cache une âme si puissante qu'elle pourrait tuer par la seule force de son regard. Elle va essayer de me détruire. J'ai presque hâte de voir comment elle s'y prendra.» Il s'appelle Thésée Cassio Lowood. Exterminer les fantômes, c'est sa mission. Elle s'appelle Anna Korlov, dite «Anna à la robe de sang». Il traque, chasse, tue, sans remords; on ne sort pas vivant de la maison qu'elle hante depuis qu'elle a été assassinée. Pour lui, elle est une déesse de la mort; pour elle, il est une proie comme les autres. Pourtant, elle a décidé l'épargner...
Voici le premier tome d'une trilogie aux accents gothiques, une histoire addictive et originale qui vous fera frissonner.

Fille des cauchemars Tome 1 ; Anna

The battle for the crown has begun, but which of the three sisters will prevail?With the unforgettable events of the Quickening behind them and the Ascension Year underway, all bets are off. Katharine, once the weak and feeble sister, is stronger than ever before. Arsinoe, after discovering the truth about her powers, must figure out how to make her secret talent work in her favour without anyone finding out. And Mirabella, once thought to be the strongest sister of all and the certain Queen Crowned, faces attacks like never before - ones that put those around her in danger that she can't seem to prevent. In One Dark Throne, the enthralling sequel to Kendare Blake's The New York Times-bestselling Three Dark Crowns, Fennbirn's deadliest queens must face the one thing standing in their way of the crown: each other.

One Dark Throne

Three Dark Crowns is a heart-stopping fantasy from Kendare Blake, acclaimed author of Anna Dressed in Blood. In every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born: three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a coveted magic. Mirabella is a fierce elemental, able to spark hungry flames or vicious storms at the snap of her fingers. Katharine is a poisoner, one who can ingest the deadliest poisons without so much as a stomach-ache. Arsinoe, a naturalist, is said to have the ability to bloom the reddest rose and control the fiercest of beasts. But becoming the Queen Crowned isn't solely a matter of royal birth. Each sister has to fight for it. And it's not just a game of win or lose .

Three Dark Crowns

Three Dark Crowns 2

Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay.Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.Yet she spares Cas's life.

Fille des cauchemars

A short story from Kendare Blake's bestselling Three Dark Crowns universe, The Oracle Queen tells the story of the last queen born with the gift of sight.

The Oracle Queen - A Three Dark Crowns novella

One Crowned, Two Exiled, A Revolution Rising. The battle has been fought, blood has been spilt and a queen has been crowned, but not all are happy with the outcome. Katharine, the poisoner queen, has been crowned and is trying to ignore the whispers that call her illegitimate, undead, cursed. Mirabella and Arsinoe have escaped the island of Fennbirn, but how long before the island calls them back?Jules is returning to Fennbirn and has become the unlikely figurehead of a revolution threatening to topple Katharine's already unsteady rule. But what good is a revolution if something is wrong with the island itself?Kendare Blake's Two Dark Reigns is the heart-stopping third book in the bestselling Three Dark Crowns series. Discover more about Fennbirn and the three queens in the thrilling start to the quartet, Three Dark Crowns, and its sequel One Dark Throne.

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