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Some brief overview of this book Stealing has always been easy for Michael Davidson. Thief Free Download Pc The new novel from Michael Dirubio explores the world of high end burglary and the people who take things that don't belong to them. Thief Download Free All downloaded files are checked. Lia can hear the future, much in the way she hears the call of Draumr.

But he does nothing selflessly. In one future, he is her ally. In another, her overlord. In both, he is her lover. Jede Nacht ist ein vergeblicher Versuch, Ruhe zu finden. Und jeder Tag ein Spiegel, in dem er sich selbst immer klarer sieht. Soll er bleiben oder fliehen? Now a treacherous new enemy threatens to destroy their world of magic and glittering power. They have no choice but to yield to their passionate attraction for each other. He is the powerful second son of the Alpha male from their clan of shapeshifting, supersensual beings.

At the request of Armand Louis, the darkly mysterious boy whose father owns Iverson, Lora will spend her summer at his lavish estate. To help the war effort—and to keep Lora near—Armand turns his home into a military hospital, where Lora will serve as a nurse. For Armand is inescapably drawn to her—bound to her by heart-deep secrets and a supernatural connection that runs thicker than blood.

Yet while Lora tries to sort out her own feelings toward Armand, fate offers an unexpected surprise. And that only she, with her newly honed Gifts, will be able to rescue him.

With Armand at her side, Lora will cross enemy lines on an incredible mission—one that could bond her to Armand forever, or irrevocably tear them apart.

Beautifully written, deeply romantic, and filled with daring adventure and magic, The Deepest Night is a mesmerizing novel of the enduring pull of destiny, and the eternal strength of love.

The writing is beautiful, lyrical, evoking image and all the senses. I highly recommend this series. The Deepest Night is like a fine wine. It is smoothly written, rich in taste and definitely needs to be savored! Actually, I think I will read it again; it is so exceptionally written! To glide through my days at Iverson without incident. Normal would become forever out of reach. On the outside, she appears to be an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl.

England, Raised in an orphanage in a rough corner of London, Lora quickly learns to hide her unique abilities and avoid attention. And the two boys she meets there will open her eyes and forever change her destiny. Armand is a darkly handsome and arrogant aristocrat who harbors a few closely guarded secrets of his own.

They were born there, they would find mates there, and they would die there. To them, the world beyond the mist and bracken was of little consequence. Lia understood why her mother had run away, all those years ago. It had taken all her meager resources just to get this far, and Lia knew her time here would be short.

There were only two things about her that set her apart from the rest of her tribe—two dark, disturbing things. And one of them was seated before her in this chamber. Zane had not stirred from his chair. The lamps were bright and the shadows were harsh; he was sketched in charcoal and light, studying her with a half-lidded gaze she recognized from years of watching him pretend to relax at Chasen Manor, every line of his body casually elegant, his coat unbuttoned to drape the cushions, his waistcoat a satin gleam of pewter and taupe.

His eyes were paler than amber. His hair was very long and thick, honeyed brown. He was poise and muscle and as tall as her father; Joan and Audrey used to keep her awake at night for years in the nursery, just giggling his name, until at last she was old enough to realize why. Because of this. Because of his hands, so strong and tanned.

His fingers, gently tapping the wooden arm of the chair in an easy, steady percussion that belied the wolf-watchfulness of his gaze. Because of his jaw, and his brows, and the handsome curve of his mouth. The flames from the lamps smoked oily black. Outside the shuttered window, the eastern song softly murmured.

She remembered the blind dream of him. Why, pray tell, have you landed in my parlor? She took a breath. Sorry, my heart. Only been locked up twice. Much better average than most of my blokes. She felt calm, removed, after all the days of worry and heat and dread, rocked to sleep and awake in that wretched excuse of a carriage, the stench of people and old horsehair clogging up her nose.

She felt a thread of her dream-self, smooth and mysterious, flowing through her veins. With Zane still seated, she leaned forward and pressed her lips to his. When she drew away again, his eyes had taken on a harder glow. In the parlor doorway stood a woman, hooded and cloaked, the slit in her mantle revealing skirts of dove silk and a stomacher of white threadwork and moonstones.

With a turn of her wrists, the woman pushed back her hood. Red hair, gray eyes; her every movement carried the fresh scent of night. Lia felt a flush of exquisite shame begin to creep up her throat. Merely a little lost lamb. I think not. Rather more a windstorm descending.

She glanced up at Zane—wolf-eyed, stone-faced, despite his languid tone—then grabbed his hand and held it hard. Now, or in the future. Remember that I warned you. He was a being of bones and flesh; so was everyone else. It was what made them so vulnerable. It was what had left him flat on the cobbles in a welling pool of his own blood one cold, cold winter evening, a knife wound to his ribs and the world pulsing blue and gray and snow, his back warm, his face numb.

By all rights, he should be dead. But then, that night, Rue had found him. And the urchin had lived after all. She sat comfortably on the settee, the sunlight from the tall windows behind her picking out the silver in her chestnut hair, her hands slim and steady as she poured tea into the paper-thin china cups that they used, for some reason, here in the deep countryside.

She looked relaxed and perfectly at home in the magnificence of the room, at one with the delicate furnishings and velvet draperies, the crystal chandelier silently sparkling just over their heads. She did not look at all like what he knew her to be. You pace like a cat.

He went to the windows instead, gazing out at the view that rolled and spun autumn forest and hills as far as he could see. Empty forest. Empty hills. Darkfrith had no wild animals. It was perhaps the detail that bothered him most about this lush and cloudy shire. There were no hidden burrows in the woods, no small lives struggling for survival, celebrating the dusk or the dawn with mating or tussles. There were insects, and a scattering of birds.

Once he had spotted a lone gray mouse skittering nervously along the edge of the stables. But in all the years he had been visiting the Marchioness of Langford and her husband, Zane had seen naught beyond those few pitiful creatures.

Little wonder. Even the smallest of beings surely sensed what dwelled in this place. So Darkfrith was shining and barren. It was occupied purely by a people who moved without brushing the air, who watched him from shadows with gleaming eyes, who smiled with sharp teeth and bowed in false acquiescence.

He felt the creeping chill of their looks every moment, every second he stayed in this place. A pair of young boys were loping toward them, slowly but steadily; the sheep bunched, then scattered like minnows into the trees. A few baubles here and there.

Do you know the one I mean? Coins, diadems, I believe even a sword said to belong to Hector, as it were. The entire set should fetch a tidy sum. A very fine one. I believe he intends to breed her.

Beats them raw. He turned. Sometimes I do miss your wisdom. Rue Langford leaned back against her silk-striped cushions, both old and young, ever lovely in her dark and glittering way.

Rhys and Kim are off examining wheat fields and rye. Joan was looking forward to having you there. Zane knew their boundaries and respected them, if for no other reason than he preferred his hide intact. The tea in his hand was hot, aromatic. He gazed down into the steam. But she wanted it very badly. We go up and visit thrice a season.

I suppose the odds were at least one of my children would be. She shifted on the settee, and he realized she was not quite so comfortable as she first appeared. This is her final quarter, in any case. The marquess entered, golden-haired, unsmiling, walking to his wife and bowing over her hand; he slanted Zane a shorter look. Christoff Langford inclined his head. If Zane had a surname, no doubt the other man would be pleased to snarl it, but as it was, they only ever exchanged nods.

I was waiting for you. Abducted anyone? Rue rose from the settee, crossing behind it to the expanse of windows. She wore a gown of blossom pink seeded with pearls, a French train that hissed, very faintly, against the maple floor. With the bright, wide panes of glass stretched beyond her, she seemed very small and slight.

Somewhere as far east as you can imagine is a stone. A diamond, we think. A very powerful one. Just a few of us. It sounded like something from a daydream back then, soft and lovely. Nearly not there. When you tried to listen too closely, it would vanish entirely. It has…changed. Grown stronger. More compelling. More of us hear it now too, nearly every member of the tribe. You know we connect to stones. You know how we are.

This one—calls to us. We need it. Send one of your vaunted hunters out to the wilds? Surely it would be quicker. She did it well, unflinching and cool and without the barest hint of regret, but he knew her well enough to register the tiny, tiny rise in her voice.

What he did not believe was that Rue Langford—or her grim-jawed husband—would let that stop them if the matter was vital enough. And she wanted to. It was clear as daylight across her face. Zane looked past her, out the windows again, blue sky, bright clouds, the woods dying off in a glory of crimson and pumpkin and gold. But I am surprised. He felt his hands go cold. Out of instinct, out of survival, he held absolutely still until his senses lined up again. Sixty thousand— It was a fortune—more than that.

It was damned near bloody unimaginable, and he had a very colorful imagination indeed. If it had been anyone else in the world saying such a thing to him, anyone, he would have jeered and walked away, because there were few things more perilous than dealing with madmen.

Rue was standing behind him; he heard the shrug in her voice. He always suspects something. He turned to her, taking up both her hands. She was beautiful. Cool and dark, the night to the stars, she was always so beautiful. A smile hovered at the corners of her mouth. The entire tribe would be in an uproar. The council would have our heads. But her eyes had grown stormy; to distract her, he bent down and pressed his lips to her temple.

They were silent a long while, her head against his chest, rocking slowly together as the clouds outside lapped vanilla cream against the horizon. Finally Rue sighed. The lure of the song is fearsome enough at this distance. Even the elders agreed it could be irresistible up close. Whoever has that diamond now might understand its power. Might realize what we are and use it against us. What then, little mouse? The heat began to build, that deep, burning craving for her, for her body and her voice and her heart.

He felt her fingers tighten over his arms. Neither of them cared. Paris was wet, a cold, gray city with even grayer people, the scent of decaying vegetables and clay and cattle everywhere.

The horses struggled with the frozen muck. He had never cared for the cramped interiors of carriages, no matter how stylishly done up. He needed the open sky, and open views. But the horses suffered. So they traveled a great deal more slowly than he would have liked otherwise, stopping at inns, at taverns, even farmhouses, whenever the weather grew too dismal.

He became used to the round-eyed looks of the country ostlers, their noses red with the wind, as the sleek new coach rolled into whichever godforsaken village arched next into view along the roads. He became used to the smell of hay mixed with sludge, and the shiny wet gloss of melted snow tracing lines along the black spokes of the wheels. The entire rig had cost a great deal to rent. Few companies wished to hire out as far as he was going, and fewer still drivers.

But hard gold always managed it; the Paris company had found a fellow with cousins in Munich. He would get that far before starting over again. Strapped to the back of the carriage was a single trunk holding his garments and shoes and a very decent bottle of sherry. Inside the carriage were the more valuable things: his picks, his spare pistol, and bullets and powder horn.

Three daggers, a dirk, and a single sheath of rice paper, tucked thin and small into the lining of his valise. No farther. No more than twelve carats, no less than one-half; a cast of blue; uncut. Heavy in the hand. It was precious little to go on. It was precious little to tie up his life and his establishment for an entire season, no matter how competent his associates or how satisfying his reputation. There could be no other answer to this journey. He had nearly nothing to go on, guesses and dream-work from a clan of creatures who could answer only, It sings and It calls and You must bring it back to us when he asked for clearer directions.

He spoke French well, German tolerably. After that, he was no better off than the role he played, a bored English sophisticate with a taste for legends and gemstones. The land passed by his window in depressing sameness. France, Germany, Austria: all gray and dun and somber skies.

Sixty thousand pounds. The Hungarians here sported wigs and buckled heels he had last seen in the heart of Paris. The women were hooded and painted and walked the cobblestone streets in dainty, mincing steps, never far from their escorts.

From his balcony he watched the skyline begin to illuminate, yellow flames that gradually connected into pictures through the dusk, outlining buildings and steeples and streets, the indigo emptiness of parks checkerboarding the glow. Pest glimmered and the river glimmered with it, its banks edged silvery white with the last dusting of snow.

The Danube was a wide, gray line between the two cities, dotted with fishing boats and ferries and great flocks of crows; their high-pitched cackles bounced back at him across the waves. The balcony curtains swelled and folded, gently tapping his legs. The breeze lifted his hair.

Zane had his pistol primed when the knock came. Monsieur Lalonde? A lanky man with watery blue eyes looked back at him. For a moment he only stared at it. The clerk waited, his narrow face betraying nothing.

When the door was bolted again, he broke the wax seal. Le Comte du Abony Zane looked up from the invitation, frowning. Samedi was Saturday, today. Someone knew of him. And Rue would never make the mistake of revealing his name. He glanced once more at the river outside, then quickly drew the curtains.

He stood motionless against the silk-papered wall, fading into shadow with the falling night while his thoughts bled into theories and conspiracies and extremely improbable coincidences.

Through the sheer organza he saw a crow land atop the stone rail of the balcony; it peered at him sideways with fiercely black eyes, then shoved into the air again. The Comte du Abony lived in an actual palace. To guide him, he had the address and the surprising brilliance of the street lanterns, which dangled from fanciful iron posts twice as tall as a man. He supposed only a very great fool would openly respond to the cordially worded card in his pocket.

And anyone who knew his name would also know that Zane was no fool. Yet he was going. He was walking. He had his dirk and his rapier and his wits; he had his best court clothing; whoever the hell this comte was, Zane meant at least to get a good look at him. And then, should the man wander off alone—too much wine, a willing woman—perhaps they might exchange a few words…. His walking stick tapped the pavement very lightly. His gold-buttoned tricorne was tipped aslant over his wig, rakish, but it was only so that he could keep his sights clear.

Sedan chairmen hauling high, teetering boxes passed him at a trot. Horses gleamed fat and glossy beneath the oil lanterns, snorting plumes of frost. The crests on the coaches—on the doors, on the hubs of the wheels—were painted in gaudy reds and greens and yellows, vivid blues. He had meant to approach the celebration the way he did all unknowns, in a circle, from behind, where he could watch and judge from a prudent distance before stepping into commitment.

But half the city seemed to be headed there, and from three blocks away he could see there would be no furtive arrival into this place; it was gated and fenced in tall, serious spikes, and there were liveried guards at every corner. At the gatehouse he handed his square of vellum to a footman, who accepted it stoically, bowing him up the raked drive.

The massive bronze-studded doors of the palace entrance were already open. As he climbed their steps, a wave of heated air pushed past: paprika and perspiration and the musky confusion of too many perfumes. Zane entered the atrium—more footmen, blazing candles, a mosaic of high, stained-glass windows glowing azure and saffron above.

The music grew brighter, the heat more intense. The princess had lived in a splendor of pink alabaster and baroque furniture. She drank tea from tiny silver-trimmed cups; her linens were powder blue embroidered with real gold; her hallboy snored. Zane had been thirteen, barefoot, a dark intruder who had not touched a thing.

But this comte, it seemed, had outsplendored the princess. Here were columns of warm ocher marble inlaid with turquoise and panels of citrine. Oil paintings of bearded men and doe-eyed women draped in furs and velvet and crowns of jewels reached as high as the second floor.

Enormous vases of fresh flowers—orchids, in October—guided the guests toward another set of doors; Zane slipped behind two lords and a trio of ladies, close as a shadow as they crossed the threshold into the ballroom.

When the butler moved to announce them, he glided off, swallowed in an ocean of satins and lace. For all the grandeur of the chandeliers, it was darker in here than it should have been. Slices of moonlight washed visibly through the far windows, gleaming pale along the shoulders and wigs of the revelers crowded there.

The orchestra labored away in a box set high above the crush. They had their own branches of candles to play by, an uneasy glow that cast shades of fiddles and horns and flutes against the dark red ceiling. In the center of the ballroom, a wide X of couples were performing the quadrille, slow and stately movements that seemed at odds with the hectic prattle of the room. Someone laughed very loudly in his ear; Zane angled away.

He worked his way to a wall so there could be no one behind him. Bobbing into view was a short, plump woman in a wig teased high with feathers and swaying droplets of diamonds. She started, staring straight at him, hard and focused—his fingers grazed the handle of his dirk—and then, abruptly, her face cleared.

She broke into a delighted smile. There you are! There you are indeed! Zane remained taut where he was as she swept toward him, champagne in one hand and the other reaching for him. This is the way! He allowed her fingers to close over his and she led him across the floor, over to a corner particularly dense with people…no, he saw, coming closer, not merely people. Dandies and lords, beaux in lawn and ruffles and long-skirted coats, surrounding a solitary woman.

This one was younger, white-skinned, garbed in ruby silk cut very low across her chest. She was laughing at something one of the beaux whispered in her ear, her chin down. Her gloved hands clasped her fan across her lap. Her skin was pearled, her cheeks brushed with pink; she wore no patches for beauty, no jewelry, and very little paint—and he grasped at once how she had managed to draw so many moths to her corner.

He had never seen a woman so exotically luminous. His mouth actually went dry. But…surely he knew her. I have the chills! I said to myself, who else could it be? It is he. But Lia had known. And the hair powder, from the Parisian salon: Yes, this. The music, a Viennese piece still new enough to stir a scandal at the school when one of the girls picked it out on the pianoforte: That refrain.

The bottle of scent, a gift from her sisters. The lace fan. The city. The hotel. His face, because that was unchanging: carved and wary, glorious in the way a feral predator could be glorious, too far beyond human touch to be tamed, severe and beautiful even in its ferocity.

His skin was marked with candlelight. His eyes burned animal bright. He wore ebony when everyone else was done up in pastel flowers. His wig was a simple tye when all the other men sported curls upon curls. Read Online Download. Great book, The Dream Thief pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone. Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. The Dream Thief by Shana Abe.