Jessica Therrien

Aging five times slower than average people and having blood with a mysterious power to heal, Elyse knows there are other people like her in the world and reconsiders her decision to to closely guard her secret.

Oppression

Lucy and Ruth are country girls from a broken home.When they move to the city with their mother, leaving behind their family ranch and dead-beat father, Lucy unravels.They run to their grandparents' place, a trailer park mobile home in the barrio of San Jose. Lucy's barrio friends have changed since her last visit. They've joined a gang called VC. Lucy thinks it harmless at first, and joins with them just for the thrill of it. They teach her to fight, to shank, to beat a person unconscious and play with guns.When things get too heavy, and lives are at stake, the three girls head for LA seeking a better life. But trouble always follows Lucy.She befriends the wrong people, members of another gang. After getting arrested for tagging, stealing cars, and finding herself on her knees with a gun to her forehead, she turns to drugs.It's only when she starts trading her teenage body for meth in a remote hotel room that she realizes how far things have gone.Lucy's struggle isn't her own. Every bad choice she makes drags the family into her dangerous world. Told from three points of view, the story follows Lucy down the rabbit hole, but also her mother and sister as they struggle with how to handle losing her, sacrificing dreams and happiness, friendships and futures.Love is waiting for all of them in LA, but pursuing a life without Lucy could mean losing her forever.Ultimately it's their bond with each other that holds them together, in a true test of love, loss and survival.

Carry Me Home

Elyse has done everything she can to protect her friends from The Council's reach. As long as they believe she's dead, she has time to rest and train for war. And war is inevitable. When Kara arrives with the news that Anna and Chloe have been captured, Elyse is faced with the realization that no one is safe until The Council is stopped and Christoph is destroyed. She doesn't need a prophecy to tell her to lead an army. Christoph has done the one thing that ensures she'll fight to the death. He's threatened the people she loves.It will take more than the words of an oracle to help them fight against the most powerful Descendant alive. To break The Council's oppression and rise up against a plot so many years in the making. Elyse will need to get dangerously close to her enemy. So close, in fact, she may not survive.

Uprising

Lead Council member, Christoph, is dead by Elyse's hand, and Descendants have begun to emerge, exposing their secret to the world. Some see this as the prophecy come to fruition, but the prophecy caries a heavy consequence. It was never meant to be as peaceful as most had hoped. Humans and Descendants struggle to live together in a world that isn't ready for such a change. America is divided. Those who glorify the supernatural race believe Descendants truly are the gods they claim relation to. Others see them as a threat. When Elyse gives birth to the next generation oracle, she sees one final vision-war. The destruction of the country's major cities, and the end of America as we know it.

Redemption

Joe Gazzam

When Special Ops recruit, Tara Kafee is dishonorably discharged, there’s only one place to go—Home. But there’s more waiting for her there than she’s ready for. It’s been four years since she’s been back and ten since her mother walked out on the family never to be heard of again. She’s determined to rekindle things with her father and keep him close. That is, until he goes missing. Soon after stumbling upon a safe room full of weapons, fake passports, and a mission’s dossier marking a target in Cuba, she reluctantly accepts the help of her angsty teenage brother. He’s the only one she can trust, so together, the two set out for Havana. Tara is determined to get her father back, whatever it takes, but things are never easy when you’re the mercenary’s daughter.

The Mercenary's Daughter

Elyse et William ont 18 ans, ils s'aiment et rêvent de liberté. Mais comme tous les Descendants des dieux de l'Olympe, ils vivent sous l'emprise de Christoph, un tyran. La révolte gronde, et c'est Elyse qui prend la tête des révoltés. Comme ses ancêtres Zeus et Athéna l'ont fait avant elle, elle doit combattre l'oppression. C'est à elle de changer le cours de l'histoire, au risque de perdre l'amour de William.

Révoltés

"Elyse knows what it means to keep a secret. She's been keeping secrets her whole life. Two, actually. First, that she ages five times slower than average people, so that while she looks eighteen years old, she's closer to eighty. Second, that her blood has a mysterious power to heal. For Elyse, these things don't make her special. They make life dangerous. After the death of her parents, she's been careful to keep her secret as closely guarded as possible. Now, only one other person in the world knows about her age and ability. Or so she thinks. Elyse is not the only one keeping secrets. There are others like her all over the world, descendants of the very people the Greeks considered gods. She is one of them, and they have been waiting for her for a long time. Among so many of her kind, she should not be very remarkable--except for the prophecy. Some believe she will put an end to traditions, safeguarded by violence, which have oppressed her people for centuries. Others are determined to keep her from doing just that. But for Elyse, the game is just beginning--and she's not entirely willing to play by their rules"--Publisher.

Elyse knows what it means to keep a secret. She's been keeping secrets her whole life. Two, actually. First, that she ages five times slower than average people, so that while she looks eighteen years old, she's well over eighty. Second, that her blood has a mysterious power to heal. For Elyse, these things don't make her special. They make life dangerous. After the death of her parents, she's been careful to keep her secret as closely guarded as possible. Now, only one other person in the world knows about her age and ability. Or so she thinks. Elyse is not the only one keeping secrets. There are others like her all over the world, descendants of the very people the Greeks considered gods. She is one of them, and they have been waiting for her for a long time. Some are waiting for her to put an end to centuries of traditions that have oppressed their people under the guise of safeguarding them. Others are determined to keep her from doing just that. But for Elyse, the game is just beginning-and she's not entirely willing to play by their rules.

Quando Tara Kafee viene congedata con disonore dai Corpi Speciali, ha un solo posto dove andare: casa. Ma ad aspettarla c’è qualcosa per cui non è pronta. Sono passati dieci anni da quando sua madre ha abbandonato la famiglia senza dare più notizie di sé. Tara è determinata a recuperare il rapporto con suo padre e a restare al suo fianco. Almeno fino a quando suo padre non scompare. Dopo aver scoperto in casa un bunker segreto pieno di armi, passaporti falsi e il dossier di una missione che riporta come obiettivo Cuba, Tara accetta con riluttanza l’aiuto del suo problematico fratello minore. È l’unico di cui possa fidarsi, e insieme partono alla volta dell’Avana. Tara è decisa a ritrovare suo padre, a qualunque costo, ma le cose non sono mai facili quando sei la figlia di un mercenario. Un romanzo estremamente divertente. Ti trascina al suo interno e non ti lascia più andare. (Tom O’Connor, sceneggiatore di Come ti Ammazzo il BodyGuard e L’Ombra delle Spie) Tantissima azione. Tonnellate di emozioni. Sono stato rapito fin dalla prima pagina. (Matt Lieberman, sceneggiatore di Qualcuno Salvi il Natale, La Famiglia Addams ed Eroe per Gioco) Uno dei libri più belli e divertenti che abbia letto da un bel po’ di tempo a questa parte. (Tommy Wirkola sceneggiatore e regista di Hansel & Gretel: Cacciatori di Streghe e Dead Snow) Ha un ritmo così veloce che ho letto il romanzo in due giorni… e mi è dispiaciuto arrivare alla fine. (Holly Kammier, autrice di Kingston Court e Lost Girl) Un pizzico di Bond, un cucchiaino bello pieno di Lara Croft e due pizzichi di rivalità tra fratelli… accendete il fuoco nel ventre criminale di Cuba e avrete la ricetta perfetta per un thriller inarrestabile. (Kat Ross, autrice delle serie Il Quarto Elemento e Il Quarto Talismano)

La Figlia del Mercenario

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