By Christopher Golden, Amber Benson
Even loss of life couldn't cease Britain’s maximum defenders.
In 1838, William and Tamara speedy inherit a startling legacy from their demise grandfather, remodeling them into the Protectors of Albion, mystical defenders of the soul of britain. however the surprised, neophyte sorcerers additionally inherit precise allies of their conflict opposed to the darkish forces. battling along them are the famous–even infamous–Ghosts of Albion: Lord Byron, Queen Bodicea, and Lord Admiral Nelson.
When unusual and hideous creatures seem within the slums of London, an unholy plague threatens to release an epic conflict which could rage the entire strategy to Buckingham Palace . . . and past. Time is operating out as William and Tamara needs to study even if their neighbors will stand beside them, or seduce and betray them.
From Amber Benson, recognized for her dramatic portrayal of Tara in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Christopher Golden, Bram Stoker Award—winning writer of The Shadow Saga and Wildwood street, comes a vengeful story of demons, vampires, and ghosts set in nineteenth-century London. in accordance with the spoil BBC internet sequence that took England through typhoon, Ghosts of Albion is a horror experience laced with darkish humor and darker lusts.
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I raise the dead, Sen˜ora. ” “I try real hard,” I said. ” She made it a statement. 46 LAURELL K. ” I pointed to the still flexing foot. It looked like one of those fake hands that you can buy at Spencer’s. Now that I wasn’t holding it, I could pretend it just had tiny little batteries in it somewhere. Right. ” I nodded. ” “I have an inborn gift for raising the dead. ” She made the word sound like something bad. ” I stood. ” The change of subject was too fast for me. “Ask whatever you came here to ask,” she said.
Too tempting, Grandma said. She had encouraged my being Christian. Encouraged my father to cut me off from her side of the family. Encouraged it for love of me and fear for my soul. And here I was going down the steps into the jaws of temptation. What would Grandma Flores say to that? Probably, go home. Which was good advice. The tight feeling in my stomach was saying the same thing. The lights came on. I blinked on the stairs. The one dim bulb at the foot of the staircase seemed as bright as a star.
The end of the room gleamed with candles. The warm, rich light flickered and filled the white walls with heat and light. Dominga stood in the midst of that light, that whiteness, and gleamed with evil. There was no other word for it. She wasn’t just bad, she was evil. It gleamed around her like darkness made liquid and touchable. The smiling old woman was gone. She was a creature of power. Manny stood off to one side. He was staring at her. He glanced at me. His eyes were showing a lot of white. The altar was directly behind Dominga’s straight back.