Kirjahaku

It's been six long years since Mackenzie Bright Runner lost her lover, Elijah Riemer, to the Revenant Virus and her Revenant protector, Ren Leonard, to a crossbow.Mackenzie has returned to the Stronghold, ousted its corrupt dictatorship, and brought peace and freedom to her beloved settlement. Things are running as smoothly as they can in a post-apocalyptic world infested with savage monsters. Until a group of her people traveling between the Stronghold and the San Juan Islands is slaughtered to a man. The sole survivor fingers the Father of the Apolcalypse just before dying. Mackenzie knows that Ren Leonard is dead; he took a crossbow bolt to his heart before her very eyes.But she can't forget that his body was never recovered. And while they all heard the shot that supposedly claimed Elijah Riemer's life before he succumbed to the Revenant Virus, his body was never found, either. When her foraging team begins finding helpful solar devices in areas where Mackenzie just happens to be, she starts to doubt everything she thought she knew, for the devices point straight toward Ren Leonard.But the murders point toward someone with a vendetta, someone who would have every reason to harbor a burning hatred for her. Someone who became infected because of her. Elijah Riemer.

There are three things Haldemanns never do: they don't cheat, they don't get divorced, and they don't break promises. When Markus Haldemann leaves his girlfriend Luci, he has no worries that her best friend - his very own cousin, Simon - will take his place. Simon said he wouldn't, and Haldemanns never break promises. But Luci Clark has her own ideas about Simon's role in her life. He's more than her best friend: he's her anchor, her lifeline, the voice of peace and reason who can be relied upon to always have her back and never judge her. And unexpectedly, she's realized he's a very desirable man. As Luci struggles to come to terms with a life-changing event, Markus ends his self-imposed exile in San Diego and comes home to Blackberry House . . . with a wife. Despite his new marriage, he is determined to hold Simon to his word. To Simon Haldemann, Luci is everything. But are the rewards of loving her worth the risk of compromising his own integrity?