My leave was ended by a burning streak across the sky, as the Ruhar transport came directly over my truck, arced over the lake, and crashed in the Olafsen’s potato field, plowing up dirt and potatoes until its nose was half submerged in a pond. What a shit job that was, I was happy to be home in the States.
Taking a break after my battalion got rotated home from peacekeeping duty in Nigeria. It was a Monday morning in early October, the Columbus Day holiday in America, I was home on leave from the Army, visiting my folks. For me personally, when a Ruhar combat transport dropped out of the sky and skidded across a potato field, outside my tiny hometown in northern Maine, that was when I became Officially Alarmed. When power plants, refineries, factories and other industrial sites around the planet started getting pounded from orbit with hypersonic railgun darts, we were shocked. When the morning sky twinkled, with what we later learned were Ruhar warships jumping into high orbit, we were curious. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when we humans only got killed by each other.
There we were, innocently drifting along in the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Every country had a name for the day the Ruhar attacked the common name that stuck, after a while, was Columbus Day. In corso di pubblicazione in diversi Paesi, questa saga ha scalato le classifiche internazionali, ricevendo anche numerosi premi.The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. Mentre Zalindov è in fermento e pregusta morte e distruzione, a vegliare su Kiva e ad aiutarla interviene un nuovo, misterioso detenuto, che piano piano si conquista un posto speciale nel suo cuore.Īrriva in Italia The Prison Healer, il primo volume della trilogia bestseller di Lynette Noni, che coniuga in modo magistrale elementi romance e fantasy. Consapevole che la Regina Ribelle non è in grado di affrontarle, Kiva prende il suo posto, pur sapendo che nessuno, in realtà, è mai sopravvissuto. A Kiva viene ordinato di tenerla in vita a ogni costo affinché possa sostenere il Giudizio degli Elementi, ovvero quattro prove quasi impossibili da superare per riottenere la libertà. Un giorno, nella sua infermeria approda la Regina Ribelle, che è stata catturata ed è gravemente malata. Kiva ha diciassette anni e ormai da tempo ricopre il ruolo di guaritrice a Zalindov, una prigione letale in cui chiunque è sacrificabile, in qualsiasi momento. «ERA DETERMINATA A COMBATTERE, E A VIVERE, FINO ALLA FINE.»
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