Böcker av N. C. Scrimgeour

Dark be the water, and darker still the creatures that lurk within...Free-spirited Isla Blackwood has never accepted the shackles of her family's nobility. Instead, she sails the open waters, searching for belonging on the waves.But when tragedy calls Isla home, she realises she can no longer escape the duty she's been running from. Selkie raiders have been terrorising the island's coasts, and when they strike at Blackwood Estate, Isla is forced to flee with her hot-headed brother and brooding swordmaster.To avenge her family and reclaim her home, Isla will have to set aside old grudges and join forces with an exiled selkie searching for a lost pelt. The heirloom might be the key to stopping the bloody conflict-but only if they can steal it from the island's most notorious selkie hunter, the Grand Admiral himself.Caught between a promise to the brother she once left behind and an unlikely friendship with the selkie who should have been her enemy, Isla soon realises the open seas aren't the only treacherous waters she'll need to navigate.As enemies close in on all sides, she must decide once and for all where her loyalties lie if she wants to save what's left of her family-and find the belonging she's been searching for.

They were a memory once forgotten. For millennia, they waited. Now, they are coming.The galaxy has been plunged into chaos, left reeling from the trap Alvera Renata triggered around the ancient alien waystations.As the leaders of the allied systems desperately try to prepare for what might be coming, Ridley and Kojan go on the hunt in search of answers. But the one person who might hold the key-the rogue starship captain who started it all-is missing in action, and her old friends aren't the only ones looking for her...Meanwhile, tensions between the Coalition and the Idran-Var are at breaking point in the aftermath of a brutal attack. The only hope for peace may lie in a fragile alliance between Rivus and Niole, old enemies thrown unwillingly onto the same side. But even if they can bury their past, what will it take to overcome the centuries of bloodshed dividing their people?As the mysterious signal coming from the waystations counts down, only one thing is for certain: something is coming, and if the fractured factions of the galaxy can't find a way to stand against it together, it may be the end for them all.