These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan (English) Hardcover Book

Description: These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan A New York Times Best-seller! Cruel Prince meets A Court of Thorns and Roses in this sexy, action-packed fantasy about a girl who is caught between two treacherous faerie courts and their dangerously seductive princes. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description From New York Times best-selling author Lexi Ryan, Cruel Prince meets A Court of Thorns and Roses in this sexy, action-packed fantasy about a girl who is caught between two treacherous faerie courts and their dangerously seductive princes. Brie hates the Fae and refuses to have anything to do with them, even if that means starving on the street. But when her sister is sold to the sadistic king of the Unseelie court to pay a debt, shell do whatever it takes to get her back - including making a deal with the king himself to steal three magical relics from the Seelie court. Gaining unfettered access to the Seelie court is easier said than done. Bries only choice is to pose as a potential bride for Prince Ronan, and she soon finds herself falling for him. Unwilling to let her heart distract her, she accepts help from a band of Unseelie misfits with their own secret agenda. As Brie spends time with their mysterious leader, Finn, she struggles to resist his seductive charm. Caught between two dangerous courts, Brie must decide who to trust with her loyalty. And with her heart. AGES: 14 plus AUTHOR: Lexi Ryan is the New York Times best-selling indie author of over twenty-five romance titles, and the 2018 winner of the Romance Writers of America RITA award for Best Contemporary Romance: Long. Her novels have sold over 725,000 copies across all formats. She lives in Indiana with her husband, two children, and a spoiled dog. Author Biography Lexi Ryan is the New York Times best-selling indie author of over twenty-five romance titles, and the 2018 winner of the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Contemporary Romance: Long. Her novels have sold over 725,000 copies. She lives in Indiana with her husband, two children, and a spoiled dog. Twitter: @writerlexiryan. Review "Sexy, surprising, and full of secrets. These Hollow Vows is a lot like the world of Faerie - seductive, enthralling, and dangerous. With two very different love interests, lots of heated moments, and a spectacular ending, this is the fantasy romance I have been craving"--Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series "A sexy new take on fae fantasy, THESE HOLLOW VOWS swept me away from the very first page and left me breathless and impatient for the next installment. Brie is a smart, capable heroine readers will love to root for in a dazzling new world filled with magic and romance. Prepare to fall for your newest book boyfriend."--Lisa Maxwell, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Magician "Lexi Ryan wrote a beautifully broken and epic fantasy that completely blew me way. Complete with twisted fae, love triangles that make my heart pound, and exceptional world building, These Hollow Vows is a must read for fans of Sarah J Maas and Jennifer L Armentrout. I highly recommend and am in dire need for the next book!"--Carrie Ann Ryan, NYT Bestselling Author of the Elements of Five Series "An enchanting story of magic, adventure, and the lengths we will go to for the ones we love. Lexi Ryan takes readers on a rollercoaster ride we wont forget and leaves us begging for more of this story and world."--Catherine Cowles, author of the Wrecked series "Engaging writing and worldbuilding.... a compelling hook."--School Library Journal -- Review Quote "Sexy, surprising, and full of secrets. These Hollow Vows is a lot like the world of Faerie - seductive, enthralling, and dangerous. With two very different love interests, lots of heated moments, and a spectacular ending, this is the fantasy romance I have been craving"--Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series "A sexy new take on fae fantasy, THESE HOLLOW VOWS swept me away from the very first page and left me breathless and impatient for the next installment. Brie is a smart, capable heroine readers will love to root for in a dazzling new world filled with magic and romance. Prepare to fall for your newest book boyfriend."--Lisa Maxwell, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Magician "Lexi Ryan wrote a beautifully broken and epic fantasy that completely blew me way. Complete with twisted fae, love triangles that make my heart pound, and exceptional world building, These Hollow Vows is a must read for fans of Sarah J Maas and Jennifer L Armentrout. I highly recommend and am in dire need for the next book!"--Carrie Ann Ryan, NYT Bestselling Author of the Elements of Five Series "An enchanting story of magic, adventure, and the lengths we will go to for the ones we love. Lexi Ryan takes readers on a rollercoaster ride we wont forget and leaves us begging for more of this story and world."--Catherine Cowles, author of the Wrecked series "Engaging writing and worldbuilding.... a compelling hook."-- School Library Journal Excerpt from Book Chapter One Cool shadows wash over my sweaty skin, welcoming me, disguising me. I could revel in the darkness--happily lie under the stars and let the night air unravel my knotted, overworked muscles--but I wont waste tonight on rest or fleeting pleasure. These are the hours of spies and thieves. Theyre my hours. I slide two hairpins into the lock, my chapped fingers dancing over them like the strings of a viola. This is a song Ive rehearsed a thousand times, a hymn Ive played in my most desperate moments. Better to pray to deft fingers, to shadows and camouflage, than to the old gods. Better to steal than to starve. Frogs sing in the distance, and their chorus nearly covers the satisfying click of the lock releasing. The servant door into Creighton Gorsts manor house swings open. Gorst has business elsewhere tonight. I made sure of it. Nevertheless, I scan my surroundings for any sign of him or his staff. Most of the wealthy keep guards on duty, but a few--like Gorst--are so paranoid that they dont even trust those in their inner circle to be unaccompanied near their vaults. Ive been waiting for a night like this for months. I pad down the stone stairwell into the cellar. The temperature drops with each step, but my skin is flushed from adrenaline and the climb over his property walls, and I welcome the chill that skates across my skin. At the base of the stairs, a glowstone senses my movements and kicks on, dimly illuminating the floor. I disable it with a gash of my knife along its soft center, blanketing the room in a darkness so complete that I can hardly make out my own hand in front of my face. Good. Im more comfortable moving in the dark, anyway. Following the walls around the periphery of the cellar with my hands, I reach the cool steel of the vault door. I blindly examine it with my fingertips--three locks, but none too complex. They yield to my blade and pins. In less than five minutes I have the door open and can already feel relief loosening my muscles. Well make this months payment. Madame Vivias wont be able to enforce more penalties this time. My smile of triumph is short-lived as I catch sight of the symbols etched on the threshold. That quickly, the rush from my success ebbs. Gorsts vault is protected by wards. Of course it is. A rich man paranoid enough to forgo sentries would be a poor man very quickly if he didnt employ a little magic to guard his wealth. Tonights mission is dangerous, and I cant risk forgetting that for even a moment. I only steal from those who have more than they need, but with wealth comes power--the power to have thieves like me executed if were caught. I sidestep the markings and pull a starworm from my satchel. Its silky-wet skin is slippery between my fingers, but I lead it to my wrist, wincing when it latches on. As it slowly draws a trickle of blood from my veins, its skin glows, lighting the ground before me. I hate losing the darkness, but I need to see the symbols. Sinking to my haunches, I trace every line and curve, confirming their shape and intent. Clever magic, indeed. These runes wouldnt keep me out of the vault. Theyd let me in and lock me there, make me a prisoner until the master of the manor could deal with me. A common thief schooled only in protection runes might make the mistake of thinking the wards were faulty when he passed them. A common thief would find himself locked inside. Good thing Im anything but common. I scour my mind for an appropriate counterspell. Im no mage. I might like to be, if my fate had been different and my days werent so full of scrubbing floors and cleaning up after my spoiled cousins. I dont have the time or the coin to spare on training, so Ill never be able to carry magic at my fingertips with spells, potions, and rituals. Im lucky to have a friend whos taught me what he can. Lucky to know just how to get out of this vault when Ive taken what I need. I slide my knife from my belt and bite my cheek as I drag the blade across the palm opposite the starworm. The sharp pain makes my head spin and pushes every thought from my head. For too many moments I teeter, my body begging to give in to the reprieve of unconsciousness. Breathe, Abriella. You have to breathe. You cant trade oxygen for courage. The memory of my mothers voice has me dragging air into my lungs. What is wrong with me tonight? Im normally not so squeamish about blood or pain. But Im exhausted and hungry after working all day with no break. Im dehydrated. Im running out of time. I dip my finger into the blood welling in my palm and carefully draw the counterspell runes atop those etched into stone. I wipe my bloody palm on my pants and study my work carefully before rising. I dont let myself hold my breath as I cross the threshold, immediately passing the symbols in each direction to make sure my runes are working. When I step into the vault, I cast the light from the starworm across the space and gasp. Creighton Gorsts vault is bigger than my bedroom. The walls are lined with shelves holding raqon coinbags, jewels, and shining weapons. My hands itch to take as much as I can carry, but I wont. If I let my desperation get the best of me, hell know someone was here. Perhaps he will anyway. Maybe I underestimate the drunkards ability to account for the wealth hes amassed dealing in pleasure and flesh, but if Im lucky, hell never know that someone breached his wards. I knew Gorst was rich, but I didnt expect riches like these. Prostitution and drink make wealthy men, but this wealthy? I scan the shelves and instinctively reach out when I spot the only explanation. I hover my hand over a stack of life deeds but yank back at the magical heat radiating from them. Had I been born into a different life, I would have very much liked to become a powerful mage for contracts like this alone. I would unravel the magic that binds these lives to evil men like Gorst. Id gather my resources and free as many girls as I could before I was caught and executed. Even knowing that I dont have the skill to undo the magic in those documents, its all I can do to leave them where they sit. Everything in me screams that I should at least try. You cant save them. I force myself to step away. Choosing a cluttered shelf where a missing coinbag might go unnoticed, I scan for markings. None. Maybe Gorst should pay me to teach him how to truly guard his treasure. I lift a single pouch and peek inside to check the contents--more than enough raqon for our payment. Maybe enough for next months as well. He has all this wealth. Will he really notice if I take more? I scan the shelves and carefully choose two more bags that are tucked behind unorganized piles of treasure. I knew Gorst was despicable, but this is the kind of wealth that people of Fairscape see only if they do business with faeries. With that realization, each of those magical contracts takes on a new meaning. Its bad enough that he can make those people do his bidding, bad enough that theyll spend their lives paying an impossible debt, but if Gorst deals with the fae, hes shipping humans off to another realm to spend their lives as slaves. Or worse. There are three stacks of contracts. I cant risk touching them, but I make myself look at each pile. Someday Im going to buy my freedom, and once my sister isnt relying on me, Ill come back here. Someday Ill find a way. My gaze snags on the stack closest to the vault door and the name on top. I reread the name and the date the payment is due in full. Once. Twice. Three times. My chest ratchets tighter each time. I dont believe in the old gods, but I send up a prayer anyway at the sight of that name, that childs scrawl. At tomorrows date highlighted with a streak of her own blood. Steps sound overhead, the booming of mens boots, and I hear a deep voice. I cant make out his words from down here, but I dont need to understand what hes saying to know that I need to run. My satchel is heavy with my stolen goods, and I clutch it to my side so it wont clang against my hip as I race out of the vault. I lift the starworm off my wrist, gasping as it fights me, trying for more blood. "Patience," I whisper, guiding him to the floor. The leech crawls ac Details ISBN0358386578 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0358386578 ISBN-13 9780358386575 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2021-07-20 Pages 448 UK Release Date 2021-07-20 Place of Publication Boston Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2021-07-20 NZ Release Date 2021-07-20 US Release Date 2021-07-20 Author Lexi Ryan Series These Hollow Vows Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Imprint Houghton Mifflin Books for Children DEWEY FIC Audience Children / Juvenile Publisher US HarperCollins Audience Age 14 Imprint US Storytide We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:133273815;

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