PATRICIA BRIGGS

PATRCIA BRIGGS, AUTORA DE CULTO DE LA FANTASÍA URBANA MÁS INTELIGENTE.INCLUYE EL RELATO INÉDITO “ALFA Y OMEGA“, PRECUELA DE CRY WOLF.“Patricia Briggs siempre complace a sus lectores”. LYNN VIEHL, aut

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In her bestselling Alpha and Omega series, Patricia Briggs "spins tales of werewolves, coyote shifters, and magic and, my, does she do it well" (USA Today Online). Now mated werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham face a threat like no other--one that lurks too close to home... They are the wild and the broken. The werewolves too damaged to live safely among their own kind. For their own good, they have been exiled to the outskirts of Aspen Creek, Montana. Close enough to the Marrok's pack to have its support; far enough away to not cause any harm. With their Alpha out of the country, Charles and Anna are on call when an SOS comes in from the fae mate of one such wildling. Heading into the mountainous wilderness, they interrupt the abduction of the wolf--but can't stop blood from being shed. Now Charles and Anna must use their skills--his as enforcer, hers as peacemaker--to track down the attackers, reopening a painful chapter in the past that springs from the darkest magic of the witchborn...

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In this #1 "New York Times" bestseller, author Patricia Briggs "has reached perfection" ("The Nocturnal Library"), as Mercy Thompson faces a shapeshifter's biggest fear... After an accident in bumper-to-bumper traffic, Mercy and her stepdaughter, Jesse, can't reach Alpha werewolf Adam--or anyone else in the pack, for that matter. They've all been abducted. Through their mating bond, all Mercy knows is that Adam is angry and in pain. But she fears Adam's disappearance may be related to the political battle the werewolves have been fighting to gain acceptance from the public--and that he and the pack are in serious danger. Outmatched and on her own, Mercy may be forced to seek assistance from any ally she can get, no matter how unlikely.

'I didn't realize he was a werewolf at first. My nose isn't at its best when surrounded by axle grease and burnt oil ...' Mercedes Thompson runs a garage in the Tri-Cities. She's a mechanic, and a damn good one, who spends her spare time karate training and tinkering with a VW bus that happens to belong to a vampire. Her next-door neighbour is an alpha werewolf - literally, the leader of the pack. And Mercy herself is a shapeshifter, sister to coyotes. As such, she's tolerated by the 'wolves but definitely down the pecking order. As long as she keeps her eyes down and remembers her place, the pack will leave her in peace. Hardly a normal situation, but then, Mercy Thompson is not exactly normal herself...and her connection to the world of things that go bump in the night is about to get her into a whole lot of trouble.

In a world where "witches, vampires, werewolves, and shape-shifters live beside ordinary people" (Booklist), it takes a very unusual woman to call it home. By day, Mercy Thompson is a car mechanic in Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her other side.....

Being a mechanic is hard work. Mercy Thompson, for instance, just spent the last couple of months trying to evade the murderous queen of the local vampire seethe, and now the leader of the werewolf pack - who's maybe-more-than-just-a-friend - has asked for her help. A book of fae secrets has come to light and they're all about to find out how implacable - and dangerous - the fae can be. OK, so maybe her troubles have nothing to do with the job. But she sure could use a holiday ...

Black didn't know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst.When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn't know is that the warning shot was not the worst crime in the Valley before his arrival, and his investigation will not only disturb the platoon's dark secrets but launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery.The Valley is a mind-bending mystery and a riveting tour de force that announces John Renehan as a great American storyteller.

Being a different breed of shapeshifter-a walker-Mercy Thompson can see ghosts, but the spirit of her long-gone father has never visited her. Until now, on her honeymoon with the Alpha werewolf Adam. An evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River-and innocent people are dying. As other walkers make their presence known to Mercy, she must reconnect with her heritage to exorcise the world of the legend known as the river devil...

Mercy Thompson es una caminante, un ser mágico único con la habilidad de transformarse en una coyote. Sus vecinos humanos ven a esta mecánica, fuertemente independiente, como una excéntrica. Para los habitantes más oscuros de la ciudad —hombres lobo, brujas y vampiros— es una presa. Pero los grandes depredadores han subestimado a Mercy. Ha visto como sus amigos eran asaltados, secuestrados y asesinados mientras la guerra entre los hombres lobo estallaba, y ya ha tenido suficiente! Solo ella puede desenmarañar los secretos de la oscura conspiración que los amenaza, pero ¿podrá hacerlo a tiempo para salvar a sus amigos... y a sí misma? Incluye el capítulo extra "La bestia interior". Las aventuras de Mercy Thompson han encabezado la lista de bestsellers del New York Times.

A new compulsive page-turning adventure in the tense Alpha and Omega sequence by New York Times queen of urban fantasy Patricia Briggs.

Charles Cornick is his pack's enforcer and lives a harsh life, doing jobs other wolves can't - or won't. And his most recent task was rescuing Anna Latham from a life of brutality. This leaves him shot and wounded, but he's happy to pay the price. Charles is strongly drawn to Anna, and her growing 'Omega' powers will see his people through dangerous times. Anna desperately needs her new mountainous home to be safer than the life she's left behind. But when a rogue werewolf starts murdering hikers, Charles and Anna are sent into the winter forests to investigate. Charles is still weak and will need Anna's strength as they discover a web of witchcraft that could drag down the whole pack. Including its leader Bran, Charles's father, head of a vast network of wolves. And if Bran weakens, dark madness could run like a fever through half a continent.

ensions between the fae and humans are coming to a head. And when coyote shapeshifter Mercy and her Alpha werewolf mate, Adam, are called upon to stop a rampaging troll, they find themselves with something that could be used to make the fae back down and forestall out-and-out war: a human child stolen long ago by the fae.Defying the most powerful werewolf in the country, the humans, and the fae, Mercy, Adam, and their pack choose to protect the boy no matter what the cost. But who will protect them from a boy who is fire touched

«Nuca tuve miedo de los monstruos hasta que me convertí en uno ahora tengo miedo hasta de mi sombra» Cry Wolf, el primer libro de la nueva saga de Patricia Briggs, sigue las aventuras de algunos de los personajes más aclamados de su anterior serie. La serie que inicia Patricia Briggs con Cry Wolf sigue los pasos de algunos de los personajes secundarios de su serie anterior. Anna desconocía la existencia de licántropos, vampiros u otras criaturas hasta que ella misma se convirtió en una. Tras sobrevivir a un brutal ataque, Anna descubre que se ha transformado en una mujer lobo. Durante tres años se ve obligada a soportar los continuos abusos a que es sometida por los miembros de su manada y a subsistir como una loba sumisa, el último escalafón de la jerarquía de los licántropos. Sin embargo, gracias a la intervención de uno de los Alfa más poderosos del país, Anna descubrirá que en realidad es una Omega, lo que la convierte en uno de los seres más extraños del grupo. El Alfa no tardará en reclamarla como suya... en todos los sentidos.

Cry Wolf abrió las puertas de un paisaje urbano único con «una nueva y original serie de licántropos». Ahora Patricia Briggs invita a los lectores a sumergirse más profundamente en este seductor reino de lo desconocido… Anna Latham no sabía lo complicada que podía llegar a ser la vida hasta que se convirtió en una mujer lobo. Y hasta casarse con Charles Cornick, el hijo -y ejecutor- de Bran, el líder de los hombres lobo de Norte América, no sabía que podía llegar a ser tan peligrosa… Anna y Charles deben asistir a una importante reunión para presentar la polémica propuesta de Bran: hacer pública a los humanos la existencia de los hombres lobo. Sin embargo, uno de los Alfas europeos más temidos no está dispuesto a ponerles las cosas fáciles; aunque no será el único. Cuando Anna es atacada por un grupo de vampiros que utilizan la magia de la manada, un poder al que en principio solo los hombres lobo deberían ser capaces de recurrir, Charles y Anna deberán unir fuerzas para descubrir y atrapar al responsable, o arriesgarse a perderlo todo en el intento… "La mejor serie de Fantasía Urbana que he leído en muchos años" Kelley Armstrong, autora New York betselling de Living with the Dead. "El estilo de Patricia Briggs, tanto para las escenas sentimentales como para las de acción, es «visual», comparable con el de J.R. Ward, pudiendo imaginar las escenas conforme vas leyendo" Urban Fantasy Blog.

En la era de la ciencia, no se permiten quemas de brujas, ordalías como juicios del agua ni linchamientos públicos. A cambio de ello, el honrado y formal ciudadano medio ya no debe preocuparse de con qué pueda toparse de repente en mitad de la noche. A veces me gustaría ser una ciuda-dana más... La mecánica Mercy Thompson tiene amigos en los bajos fondos, en lugares oscuros. Y ahora le debe un favor a uno de ellos. Puesto que puede cambiar de forma a voluntad, accede a echarle una mano a Stefan, su amigo vampiro, cuando éste va a darle un mensaje a otro de su especie. Pero este nuevo vampiro no es precisamente normal, ni tampoco el demonio que lleva dentro…

La llamada de la luna es el inicio de la historia de Mercedes Thompson, un atractiva mujer que cambia de forma y se convierte en coyote, que tiene como vecino a un hombre lobo dominante y que por las tardes trabaja como mecánico en el taller del vampiro Stefan. El mundo de Mercy es muy similar al nuestro, salvo que el Otro Mundo comienza a salir a la luz debido a las tecnologías modernas. La vida de Mercy, dentro de lo que cabe, es de lo más normal... lo cual no resulta una historia interesante, ¿verdad? Pero, como era de esperar, las cosas van a cambiar desde la primera página.En este primer libro, Mercy se enfrenta a trolls y a diablillos, a antiguos ex novios y a viejos vampiros. Espero que disfrutéis con su historia.