Will and I breathed sighs of relief, but it was a few seconds before Michael withdrew his sword. He was quiet again for several agonising moments, returning to his emotionless state. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath before opening them again. His brow furrowed with exhaustion and he seemed overwhelmed by what he felt. “I…,” Michael said, and emotion spilled over his face. “You’re worried about me, because you love me. His mouth opened to reply, but nothing came out. Don’t kill him.Ī tear caught on the edge of my lips. If you kill my Guardian, then I will never forgive you. I need all the help I can get, and that includes yours. My love for my Guardian is one of those blessings. I’m the only one of our kind who has ever felt the most perfect happiness and the truest sorrow - because of this soul. This human soul has given me so many blessings and curses. “I would mourn him forever with a broken heart. “Michael grew silent, his gaze softening as he looked from me to Will, and a dim light of hope flickered in my heart.
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He knows that Ruth's expertise and experience could help him finally to put this case to rest.īut when a second child goes missing, Ruth finds herself in danger from a killer who knows she's getting ever closer to the truth. Since she vanished, someone has been sending him bizarre anonymous notes about ritual sacrifice, quoting Shakespeare and the Bible. Are they the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years earlier - or are the bones much older?ĭCI Harry Nelson refuses to give up the hunt for the missing girl. A cold missing person case has now become a murder investigation.ĭr Ruth Galloway is called in when a child's bones are discovered near the site of a prehistoric henge on the north Norfolk salt marshes. The Crossing Places Audible Audiobook Unabridged Elly Griffiths (Author), Jane McDowell (Narrator), & 1 more 13,942 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial When shes not digging up bones or other ancient objects, Ruth Galloway lectures at the University of North Norfolk. Believing them to be ancient, the police call in Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist. A child's bones are discovered on the windswept Norfolk marshes. In addition, Clarke presents an inventive depiction of the use of vacuum energy to power spacecraft-and the technical logistics of space travel near the speed of light. Clarke's favorite novel, The Songs of Distant Earth addresses several fascinating scientific questions unresolved in their time-including the question of why so few neutrinos from the sun have been measured on Earth. 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These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel and featuring more than eighty all-new black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley. Fire and Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart. Set 300 years before the events in A Song of Ice and Fire, Fire and Blood is the definitive history of the Targaryens in Westeros as told by Archmaester Gyldayn, and chronicles the conquest that united the Seven Kingdoms under Targaryen rule through the Dance of the Dragons: the Targaryen civil war that nearly ended their dynasty forever.Ĭenturies before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen – the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria – took up residence on Dragonstone. |