Seraphim Collective Chronicles Book 3 - Bowman, James R

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Résumé :
Major Tomas walker, absent big brother to Gwen died for his last time and in doing so, finally fractured the ancient spell that has kept both him and Gwen hidden from every assassin The Adversary has ever sent. Sent to extinguish every life that stands to be a guardian of the Earth. Tomas and Gwen knew nothing of this. Though Tomas has just been brought up to speed on that subject, Gwen's story starts a little further back to moments after Tomas's partial demise. Gwen Walker is building a pleasant life in New York after travelling the world inadvertently as a dancer, artist and free spirit. Believing her adventures behind her, she starts to put down tenuous roots but destiny has other plans for the petite English woman. Unprotected by the spell Gwen knew nothing of, Gwen lights up the ether like a small sun. Like a flame, she draws very dangerous moths. The possessed and Deminions of The Adversary are swerved to intercept her, deadly Hounds of Fenris have her scent too and are desperate to please their nefarious master, the Dread wolf Fenris himself by bringing her ruined body to him. Beyond these horrors, an Arch Demon has recruited the Kore-Megara, a Kavern of women, versed in the art of dark sorcery and weapons mastery. Gwen's future looks bleak and short, but she's not alone. Bex, a surgeon from a nearby hospital has a secret and upon seeing Gwen, knows it can remain a secret no more. The rapid increase in both possessed and Hound activity has attracted the Seraphim Collective, who are concerned by the attraction to Gwen. Being the daughter of one of their own they set about protecting her, keeping her in the dark as to what hunts her. Seb and Harry, two powerful assets of the Collective along with Bex create a shield about Gwen, who is oblivious to it all. A demon walks the earth who shouldn't be able to take corporeal form here, this in turn attracts the two high priestesses of the Earth and living Avatars of her will, the Ladies Jenharim Duquesne and Madeline Cortez,. They are in fact the ancient White and Red dragon of mythology and they take Gwen to New Mexico to keep her safe, but safety is an illusion they cannot maintain and the darkness catches up with Gwen, shattering her idyll and catapulting her into a war she had been shielded from, one that will demand the ultimate sacrifice from her. But is Gwen prepared to pay it and accept the consequences of such an act? Should she survive such a decision she would be tasked with an impossible quest. View the world now as it has not been seen for an age, watch as the fabric of reality crumbles around her and takes her to the brink of sanity and life as she knows it, then stand beside her as she takes that fateful step into the unknown....