Rory Power

Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver meets Game of Thrones in a mesmerising and unputdownable Balkan fantasy novel of family and survival from the instant New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls. Rhea and her twin brother, Lexos, have spent an eternity using cunning and magic to help rule their small, unstable country. Rhea controls the seasons to show favor to their most loyal stewards with bountiful harvests and short winters, while Lexos keeps the tides strong and impassable to maintain the country's borders.

ABOUT IN A GARDEN BURNING GOLDFresh and original . . . full of lush writing and detailed worldbuilding . . . [with a] rich fantasy landscape and an almost Shakespearean feel.PasteTwins imbued with incredible magic and near-immortality will do anything to keep their family in powereven if it tears the family apartin the first book of a mythic epic fantasy duology from the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls.

An instant New York Times bestseller Wilder Girls is Rory Power s chilling and unputdownable YA debut The Power meets We Were Liars in this compelling story of survival and the power of female friendships perfect for fans of A Good Girl s Guide to Murder Body horror meets boarding school in a moving terrifying thriller Guardian Everyone loses something to the Tox Hetty lost her eye Reese s hand has changed and Byatt just disappeared completely It s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put in quarantine The Tox turned the students strange and savage the teachers died off one by one Cut off from the mainland the girls don t dare wander past the school s fence where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous They wait for the cure as the Tox takes their bodies becoming sick and foreign things bursting out of them bits missing But when Byatt goes missing Hetty will do anything to find her best friend even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie in the wilderness past the fence As she digs deeper she learns disturbing truths about her school and what else is living on Raxter Island And that the cure might not be a cure at all Your new favourite book Cosmopolitan Wholly original and compe

Twisty and unnerving' Holly Jackson, bestselling author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.From the author of the New York Times bestselling Wilder Girls comes a twisty thriller about a girl whose past has always been a mystery - until she decides to return to her mother's hometown, where history has a tendency to repeat itself . . .Ever since Margot was born, it's been just her and her mother. No answers to Margot's questions. No history to hold on to. Just the two of them, stuck in their run-down apartment, struggling to get along.But that's not enough for Margot. She wants family. She wants a past. And when she finds a photograph pointing her to a town called Phalene, she leaves. But when Margot gets there, it's not what she bargained for.Margot's mother left for a reason. But was it to hide her past? Or was it to protect Margot from what's still there?Burn Our Bodies Down is a blistering horror-thriller from Rory Power that will grip you from its very first page, and won't let you go until long after you've put it down . . .

A tense, enthralling psychological thriller. - GuardianMore than just a killer premise... a propulsive YA thriller. - CultureflyKill Creatures blew me away. A YA thriller masterclass. Nan is a standout protagonist, all jagged edges and pointed teeth but with a soft and vulnerable underbelly. I cannot stop thinking about it. Rory Power is at her very best - Laura Steven, author of Our Infinite FatesA shuddery and gripping specter of a book, Kill Creatures is an ode to the knife-sharp edges of teenage friendship. - Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in DrowningElectrica terrifying and stunningly crafted thriller. - Kara A. Kennedy, author of I Will Never Leave YouKill Creatures grabs you by the throat and demands to be read in a single sitting. - Kara Thomas, author of That Weekend and The CheerleadersKill Creatures is a pulse-pounding page-turner. A true master class in suspense, character, and tension. - Kayla Cottingham, New York Times bestselling author of My Dearest Darkest

Naomi Noviks Spinning Silver meets Game of Thrones in a mesmerising and unputdownable Balkan fantasy novel of family and survival from the instant New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls.Rhea and her twin brother Lexos have spent an eternity helping their father rule their small, unstable country. For a hundred years, theyve been each others only ally, defending one another against their fathers increasingly unpredictable anger. Now, with an independence movement gaining ground and their fathers rule weakening, the twins must take matters into their own hands to keep their family their entire world from crashing down around them. But other nations are vying for power, ready to cross and double cross, and if Rhea and Lexos arent careful, theyll end up facing each other across the battlefield.

The Wind-Up Garden duology reaches its stunning conclusion in this sweeping fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls, perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab and Leigh BardugoThe Argyros family is torn asunder, their nation betrayed and taken over by former allies, all four siblings scattered across the world.Now head of the rebellious Sxoriza, Rhea grapples with her newfound abilities and an uneasy relationship with Michali, her resurrected beloved. But forces are rising against her, hungry for the powers she now wields.Defiant, even in the face of defeat, Lexos finds himself imprisoned in the most unlikely of places. With a new ally by his side he plots his escape and revenge against those responsible.In one final, desperate move, Rhea sends her closest companion, her sister Chrysanthi, on a dangerous mission: to travel across the world and locate their lost sibling, Nitsos.With battlelines drawn and siblings on either side of the divide, will the Argyros family be able to reconcile or will there be a reckoning like no other?

Uma emocionante e multipremiada história de terror feminista que mistura os elementos de um thriller com um romance sáfico cheio de drama e mistério.Nomeada para o prémio Goodreads: Melhor Livro de Fantasia Young Adult | Ficço CientificaA Ilha esconde horrores inimaginaveis e monstros sedentos de sangue. Começou devagar e sem aviso. Primeiro, morreram as professoras. Depois, as alunas foram infetadas e os seus corpos mutilados pela doença. Disseram-lhes para aguardarem, em isolamento e a merce da epidemia, ate que uma cura fosse encontrada. E assim que, desde ento, tres amigas, Hetty, Byatt e Reese, sobrevivem. Mas um dia, Byatt desaparece sem rasto e Hetty, desesperada, faz tudo para a encontrar, inclusive quebrar a quarentena.So que ha outra razo sinistra para estarem ali ha tanto tempo fechadas.O burburinho em torno deste Senhor das Moscas e ensurdecedor, mas nos juntamo-nos ao coro: esta saga incrivel sera, sem duvida, uma das obras mais comentadas dos ultimos tempos. - Entertainment Weekly

Une île sauvage, trois amies inséparables, une descente aux enfers.Voilà bientôt dix-huit mois quun mal inconnu, la Tox, a frappé lîle Raxter. Dix-huit mois que le pensionnat pour jeunes filles qui e

​"NE LAISSE JAMAIS LE FEU SÉTEINDRE." APRÈS WILDER GIRLS, RORY POWER NOUS EMPORTE DANS UN THRILLER DÉVORANT À LA CROISÉE DE LHORREUR ET DE LA SCIENCE-FICTION." Je connais ce visage. Cest le mien. Ces

Twisty and unnerving Holly Jackson, author of A Good Girls Guide to Murder.From the author of the bestselling Wilder Girls comes a twisty thriller about a girl whose past has always been a mystery until she decides to return to her mothers hometown, where history has a tendency to repeat itself . . .Ever since Margot was born, its been just her and her mother. No answers to Margots questions. No history to hold on to. Just the two of them, stuck in their run-down apartment, struggling to get along.But thats not enough for Margot. She wants family. She wants a past. And when she finds a photograph pointing her to a town called Phalene, she leaves. But when Margot gets there, its not what she bargained for.Margots mother left for a reason. But was it to hide her past? Or was it to protect Margot from whats still there?Burn Our Bodies Down is a blistering horror-thriller from Rory Power that will grip you from its very first page, and wont let you go until long after youve put it down . . .

An instant New York Times bestseller, Wilder Girls is Rory Powers chilling and unputdownable YA debut. The Power meets We Were Liars in this compelling story of survival and the power of female friendships, perfect for fans of A Good Girls Guide to Murder.Body horror meets boarding school in a moving, terrifying thriller GuardianEveryone loses something to the Tox; Hetty lost her eye, Reeses hand has changed, and Byatt just disappeared completely.Its been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put in quarantine. The Tox turned the students strange and savage, the teachers died off one by one. Cut off from the mainland, the girls dont dare wander past the schools fence where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure as the Tox takes; their bodies becoming sick and foreign, things bursting out of them, bits missing.But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her best friend, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie in the wilderness past the fence. As she digs deeper, she learns disturbing truths about her school and what else is living on Raxter Island. And that the cure might not be a cure at all . . .Your new favourite book CosmopolitanWholly original and compelling ObserverA staggering gut punch of a book Kirkus

Siblings torn apart by betrayal grapple with their broken bondsand fight to regain their powerin this stunning conclusion to a mythic epic fantasy duology from the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls.The Argyros siblings have lost everything. With their father dead and their family home captured, theyre no longer the rulers of their fractured kingdomand no longer bound to each other.In the frozen north, Rhea struggles to wield her newly inherited command over death and to find her place in an increasingly distrustful rebel group. Chrysanthi travels to a distant, war-torn land in search of her elusive brother Nitsos, certain that he is there on a dangerous mission to restore the family to its former glory, this time with himself at its head. And Lexos, now stripped of all his power and a political prisoner of the Domina family, is left to rot in a hauntingly desolate palace with nothing but thoughts of revenge. Alone and farther apart than theyve ever been, the siblings must reckon with the pain of their past and find a new path forwardor risk their own destruction. In an Orchard Grown from Ash is the dramatic finale of a darkly beautiful, atmospheric saga that explores the cost of power and the weight of legacy.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A YALSA BEST FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS BOOK OF THE YEAR A BOOKPAGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Last year, Nans three best friends ventured into the canyons near their small town and never returned. Now one of them is back, and Nan cant believe itbecause shes the one who killed them. From the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls comes another dark thriller about friendship, jealousy, desire, and revenge, with a twist ending that needs to be talked about.Last summer, Luce, Edie, Jane, and Nan took a boat out for one final swim in the river. It was a perfect summer night.But the only one who returned that night was Nan. Edie, Jane, and Luce disappeared, and Nans story has always been the same: She has no idea what happened. The girls went ahead, and it was as though they vanished into thin air.Now, one year later, all of Saltcedar has gathered at the river for a memorial. Nan even recreated the outfit she wore that fateful day last summer. And when Luce climbs out of the water, no one is more surprised than Nan.Because Nan killed her. Right before she killed Edie and Jane.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!"The perfect kind of story for our current era."HypableFeatured in Vultures "11 Books to Read If You Already Miss Yellowjackets"!From the author of Burn Our Bodies Down, a feminist Lord of the Flies about three best friends living in quarantine at their island boarding school, and the lengths they go to uncover the truth of their confinement when one disappears. This fresh debut is a mind-bending novel unlike anything youve read before.Its been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hettys life out from under her.It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls dont dare wander outside the schools fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything.But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that theres more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.And dont miss Rory Powers second novel, Burn Our Bodies Down!Praise for Wilder Girls:4 STARRED REVIEWS!"Take Annihilation, add a dash of Contagion, set it at an all-girls academy, and youll arrive at Rory Powers occasionally shocking and always gripping Wilder Girls."--Refinery29"This thrilling saga...is sure to be one of the seasons most talked-about books, in any genre."--EW"Fresh and horrible and beautiful....readers will be consumed and altered by Wilder Girls."--NPR

Fresh and original . . . full of lush writing and detailed worldbuilding . . . [with a] rich fantasy landscape and an almost Shakespearean feel.PasteTwins imbued with incredible magic and near-immortality will do anything to keep their family in powereven if it tears the family apartin the first book of a mythic epic fantasy duology from the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls.Rhea and Lexos were born into a family unlike any other. Together with their siblings, they control the seasons, the tides, and the stars, and help their father rule their kingdom. Thanks to their magic, the family has ruled for an eternity, and plan to rule for an eternity more. But Rhea and Lexos are special: They are twins, bonded down to the bone, and for the past hundred years, that bond has protected them as their father becomes an unpredictable tyrantand his worsening temper threatens the familys grip on power. Now, with rival nations ready to attack, and a rebel movement within their own borders, Rhea and Lexos must fight to keep the kingdomand the familytogether, even as treachery, deceit, and drama threaten to strand the twins on opposite sides of the battlefield. In a Garden Burning Gold is a vividly written, atmospheric saga that explores the limits of power and the bonds of familyand how far both can be bent before they break.

"Hits like a lightning strike." Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel WoodFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Wilder Girls comes a feverishly twisty thriller about a girl whose past has always been a mysteryuntil she decides to return to her mothers hometown . . . where history has a tendency to repeat itself.Its always just been Margot and her mother, struggling to get along. But Margot wants more. She wants family. She wants a past. And she may have just found a clue: an old photograph of her mothers, pointing Margot to a town called Phalene. Yet when Margot gets there, she feels it in her guttheres something not right about Phalene. The towering fields of dying corn, odd looks from the locals . . . Then a mysterious girl who could be Margots twin is pulled from a fire, and Margot realizes that her mother left this town for a reason. But was it to hide her past? Or to protect Margot from whats still here?The only thing Margot knows for sure is theres poison in her family tree, and its roots are dug so deeply into Phalene that now that shes here, she might never escape.Praise for Burn Our Bodies Down:3 STARRED REVIEWS!Gritty and strange, this sophomore novel is utterly compelling. Booklist, starred reviewCreates a vivid world with a gothic horrorlike setting. . . . A riveting, often frightening read. Publishers Weekly, starred review Strong, suspenseful writing and pitch-perfect touches of horror. Shelf Awareness, starred review

En una extraña academia ubicada en una isla, un grupo de amigas tienen que descubrir por qué una de ellas ha desaparecido mientras el centro está en cuarentena. Los horrores que aguardan más allá de la academia son algo que jamas habrian podido imaginar...