Лучшие произведения Элоди Харпер

Амара больше не рабыня. Теперь у нее есть красивый дом, дорогая одежда и слуги. Но стала ли она свободной? Ведь она может все потерять, если лишится благосклонности своего покровителя. Тени прошлого не покидают Амару и в новой жизни: ночью во снах она видит «Волчье логово» и подруг, которых оставила, а днем ее преследует бывший хозяин. Чтобы обрести настоящую свободу, ей придется стать такой же безжалостной, как он.

"Wild Swimming", an epistolary tale of aquatic horror, stands out among visions of evil toys and post-apocalyptic survival. A reservoir in Lithuania leads wild swimmer Chrissie to some deep and very dark revelations, as she writes to her friend in the story that Stephen King judged the winner of Guardian short story contest. “My favourite, however – and the winner – is Wild Swimming,” said King. “It is told via email, making it part of a small but interesting genre: the 21st‑century epistolary tale. One central image could have come straight out of an EC horror comic from the 1950s. Once again, we are told not too much (that the Russians may have deliberately drowned the inhabitants, for instance), but just enough. The central plot element – wild swimming – is new and novel, something I’d never encountered before.”

The life of a courtesan in Pompeii is glamorous yet perilous... Amara has escaped her life as a slave in the Wolf Den, the city’s most notorious brothel, but now her survival depends on the affections of her patron: a man she might not know as well as she once thought. At night in the home he bought for her, the house with the golden door, Amara’s dreams are haunted by her past. She longs for her sisterhood of friends—the women at the brothel she was forced to leave behind—and worse, finds herself pursued by the cruel and vindictive man who once owned her. To be truly free, she will need to be as ruthless as he is. Amara knows her existence in Pompeii is subject to Venus, the goddess of love. Yet finding love may prove to be the most dangerous act of all. This is the second installment in Elodie Harper's acclaimed Wolf Den Trilogy, which reimagines the lives of women long overlooked.

Amara's journey has taken her far; from a slave in Pompeii's wolf den to a high-powered courtesan in Rome... though her story is not over yet. While Amara plays for power in Rome's imperial palace, those dearest to her remain in Pompeii. But it is AD 79, and mighty Mount Vesuvius is about to make itself known...