Winner of the Aurora Award for Best Novel, 2019 Hell is empty and all the demons are here.
The year is 1328 and Bruges is under siege by the Chatelaine of Hell and her army of chimeras - creatures forged in the deep fires of the Hellbeast.
At night, revenants crawl over the walls and bring plague and grief to this city of widows. Margriet de Vos learns she''s a widow herself when her good-for-nothing husband comes home dead from the war. But he didn''t come back for her. The revenant who was her husband pulls a secret treasure of coins and weapons from under his floorboards and goes back through the mouth of the beast called Hell.
Margriet killed her first soldier when she was eleven. She''s buried six of her seven children. She''ll do anything for her daughter, even if it means raiding Hell itself to get her inheritance back.
Margriet''s daughter Beatrix is haunted by a dead husband of her own, and blessed, or cursed, with an enchanted distaff that allows her to control the revenants and see the future.
Together with a transgender man-at-arms who has unfinished business with the Chatelaine, a traumatised widow with a giant water-powered forgehammer at her disposal, and a wealthy alderman''s wife who escapes Bruges with her children, Margriet and Beatrix forge a raiding party the likes of which Hell has never seen...
Un nouveau chapitre de la guerre entre Assassins et Templiers s'ouvre...
Londres, 1851. Lorsque Pierrette, une acrobate audacieuse, sauve la mathématicienne Ada Lovelace d'une bande de malfrats lors de l'Exposition Universelle, elle se retrouve ainsi plongée dans une lutte séculaire opposant les Assassins aux Templiers. Mais Ada est gravement malade. Bientôt, elle partage ses secrets avec Pierrette et l'envoie sur les traces d'une arme redoutable qu'elle a mise au point pour le compte d'un mystérieux individu, connu sous le nom de " Mage ". Dans sa quête, l'unique allié de Pierrette est l'ami d'enfance d'Ada Lovelace : Simeon Price, membre d'une Confrérie attachée au principe de libre arbitre.
Grâce à Simeon, les deux acolytes finissent par mettre à jour un terrifiant réseau d'assassinats politiques qui ébranle l'Europe. Tandis qu'ils s'efforcent de déjouer le complot mortel des Templiers, meurtres et bombes sont omniprésents. Tout espoir est-il vraiment perdu ?
''Spellbinding'' JJA Harwood ''An entertaining and dark read'' Stylist ''An absorbing novel'' Guardian ''Beautifully written'' Elizabeth Chadwick ''Power is not something you are given. Power is something you take. When you are a woman, it is a little more difficult, that''s all'' 1768. Charlotte, daughter of the Habsburg Empress, arrives in Naples to marry a man she has never met. Her sister Antoine is sent to France, and in the mirrored corridors of Versailles they rename her Marie Antoinette.
The sisters are alone, but they are not powerless. When they were only children, they discovered a book of spells - spells that work, with dark and unpredictable consequences.
In a time of vicious court politics, of discovery and dizzying change, they use the book to take control of their lives.
But every spell requires a sacrifice. And as love between the sisters turns to rivalry, they will send Europe spiralling into revolution.
Brimming with romance, betrayal, and enchantment, The Embroidered Book reimagines a dazzling period of history as you have never seen it before.
