Den of Shadows
Den of Shadows, is a set of fantasy novels written by American author, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes and is also a translated into the language of her characters as Nyeusigrube. The novels consists of vampires, ghost, witches and many other creatures and is the predecessor of Atwater-Rhodes' five volume novels known as The Kiesha'ra Series.
The novels included in Den of Shadows are In the Forests of the Night, Demon in My View, Shattered Mirror, Midnight Predator, Persistence of Memory, Token of Darkness, All Just Glass, Poison Tree, Promises to Keep and the books from the Maeve’ra Trilogy, Bloodwitch, Bloodkin, and Bloodtraitor.
The Den of Shadows is also the name of Atwater-Rhodes' official site, which was originally called Nyeusigrube.
Novels
1999 In the Forests of the Night
Risika was born under the name Rachel Weatere in 1684. Changed to Risika, a vampire, against her will she receives a black rose identical to the one that she received three hundred years prior that had sealed her fate. Now she must face her past to confront her future. During this she has a mysterious stalker who she knows nothing about.
2000 Demon in My View
Taking place a few years after the events of In the Forests of the Night, a young writer by the name of Jessica Allodola has published the book Tiger, Tiger (a fictional name for In the Forests of the Night) under the pen name "Ash Night". But little does Jessica, publishing the book is like making your own death wish. One of the main antaganosit in her book, Aubrey, has learned of the publication of the novel and humiliated by the content of which it reveals, and has set out to kill the author before she can reveal more of his secrets.
2001 Shattered Mirror
Sarah Vida, a witch, is set on getting a known vampire named Nikolas. The young witch attends high school like a normal teenager but meets and befriends Christopher, a vampire who is later revealed to be the twin of Nikolas, against the laws of the Vida coven. Although Sarah tries to break off the friendship with Christopher, she soon learns of his past and sets out to confront Nikolas but can she survive it?
2002 Midnight Predator
Turquoise Draka lives in a world of vampires and shapeshifters. She once had a normal teenage life, a family, friends everything was perfect until she was made a slave by a vampire. Now that she is an adult she is a vampire hunter who has been assigned to assassinate a cruel vampire by the name of Jeshikah by going under cover as a slave so she may enter the vampire realm, Midnight, undetected. But little does she know that her new owner, Jaguar, may hold the key to freeing her from her tormented past.
2008 Persistence of Memory
Erin Misrahe is a sixteen-year-old girl with an alter-ego named Shevaun. Shevaun is a dangerous and deadly alter-ego who appears in times when Erin is severely stressed. Little does Erin know that she is actually linked with a vampire and that the two switch bodies when Erin loses control though neither can make a remember what happens during the episodes. Deciding to end this bond Shevaun sets out to kill Erin.
2010 Token of Darkness
After a car accident Cooper Blake is now seeing what he believes to be a ghost named Samantha who wants more than ever to have her own body. Wanting to help her, Cooper sets out to find a way to help her get a body but little does he know that by doing this he will unlock the secrets of Samantha's past and put himself into grave danger.
2011 All Just Glass
Taking place twenty-four hours after the events of Shattered Mirror, Sarah Vida's sister, Adia is sent out by their mother to kill Sarah now that she is a vampire. Because of Sarah's transformation a war has broken out between witch hunters and vampires and can only be put to the end by the death of Sarah. Adia, who has always been loyal to the laws of her line and always makes the family proud, sets out to find Sarah but can she kill her own sister regardless of what she has become?
2012 Poison Tree
Sarik is a tiger shapeshifter who is mediator at SingleEarth Haven Number Four and has accepted the position to escape her past. When a new mediator comes to join them, Alysia, Sarik becomes suspicious. Little does Sarik know that Alysia also has a past she is trying to run from and after an attack on Sarik's lover, Jason, who is a vampire by a suspicious Onyx bounty hunter the Haven is drug into the middle of a disaster that leaves both Sarik and Alysia to decide what prices must be paid to save the peaceful society that Haven Number Four stands for.
2013 Promises to Keep
The novel was released on January 8, 2013[1] as part of "Den of Shadows".
The Maeve’ra Trilogy
The Maeve’ra Trilogy is a trilogy of novels that take place before the events of Midnight Predator.
2014 Bloodwitch
Released on May 13, 2014 the novel tells the story Vance Ehecatl, a quetzal shapeshifter, who was raised by the vampires Jaguar and Taro in Midnight when he was abandoned as a baby. But an act a violence forces him to leave his home and he meets Malachi Obsidian, another shapeshifter who is against Midnight and the vampires. Malachi claims Vance is a bloodwitch and that Jaguar, Taro and Mistress Jeshickah, the leader of Midnight, are trying to control him and use his powers. Vance does not believe him but when illness starts to effect his friends, Vance begins to realize that his world is not as perfect as he thought and he must choose between the vampires who raised him or the shapeshifters who hate him.
2015 Bloodkin
Bloodkin is the second novel in the Maeve’ra Trilogy and was released on April 14, 2015.[2] The book follows 16-year-old Kadee Obsidian, a serpiente shape-shifter who has spent time with both the Serpiente and the Shantel after being taken from her human family as a sick child. Kadee and Vance, a quetzal shapeshifter who was first introduced in Bloodwitch, journey to the Shantel forest after learning that the Shantel are being held to account for the blood plague that infected Vance and others in Midnight. Among the Shantel with Vance, Kadee faces her and her guild's past, where her ideas of freedom and her knowledge of sins committed clash. When is it okay to go against one's principles? Do the ends justify the means? How much is one life worth, and when is the price too much to pay?
2016 Bloodtraitor
Bloodtraitor is an upcoming novel in the Maeve’ra Trilogy that is set to be released 2016.
Omnibus
2009 The Den of Shadows Quartet
The Den of Shadows Quartet is an omnibus consisting of the first four novels published by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, In the Forests of the Night, Demon in My View, Shattered Mirror and Midnight Predator respectively. The omnibus was published on August 11, 2009.[3]
References
- ↑ "Promises to Keep (9780385741927): Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: Books". Amazon.com USA. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
- ↑ "Bloodkin (Ma'evra): Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: 9780385743051: Books". Amazon.com USA. Retrieved 2014-11-09.
- ↑ "The Den of Shadows Quartet (9780385738941): Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: Books". Amazon.com USA. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
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