Цикл книг «Bridge & Sword» — 15 книг

He appeared out of nowhere. He saved her life.
Allie Taylor harbored a fascination with seers for as long as she can remember. A second, psychic race discovered on Earth, seers are exotic, beautiful, hyper-sexual, dangerous as hell, and really danged expensive to own.

Unfortunately, a lot of the world doesn’t share Allie’s enthusiasm for them.

As more and more Seers appear on the streets of San Francisco where she lives, protests have broken out. Seers can’t venture into public without papers issued by their owners and a collar restraining their psychic sight, but that’s not enough to calm the anti-seer fanatics. They want all the Seers dead, or banished from the United States forever.

When Allie travels to New York to see her boyfriend’s band, she gets caught in a terrorist attack. She’s saved by a man she’s never seen before, a tall, mysterious stranger with pale, glass-like eyes and black hair, who seems to crop up everywhere she turns. Meanwhile, someone starts leaving her cryptic, vaguely threatening notes about the end of the world, and her boyfriend starts blowing her off for one of his lame band groupies.

Then things get a lot worse. A bizarre religious cult targets Allie for an end of the world ritual, and her visit to New York goes from bizarre to potentially fatal.

Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. An epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning science fantasy series that gets dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.

**NOTE: A different version of this novel was previously titled “New York”

THE BRIDGE AND SWORD SERIES is a dark, gritty psychic warfare epic from a USA TODAY and WALL STREET JOURNAL bestselling author. Set in an alternate version of Earth where a second race of beings called “Seers” live alongside humans, this is for fans of romantic, character-driven science fiction and fantasy worlds, filled with twists and turns and backstabbing betrayals, with heroes and villains who are often the same people.

He appeared out of nowhere. He saved her life.
Allie Taylor harbored a fascination with seers for as long as she can remember. A second, psychic race discovered on Earth, seers…

Angular features. Freakishly tall, with pale, unnerving, colorless eyes. He moved unlike anyone I’d ever seen. He couldn’t possibly be human. He had to be one of them.

Allie only ever glimpsed Seers at a distance, usually in sex clubs, or on the leash of the wealthy and powerful of San Francisco. Fascinating, beautiful, deadly, Seers existed totally outside the sphere of ordinary humans.

You had to be rich to own a Seer. You had to be rich to get anywhere near one.

Allie’s more focused on getting her mom to a therapist, keeping her friend, Cass, out of crap relationships, and making enough money so they don’t lose the house. When Revik first shows up at the diner where she works, she assumes he’s just some weirdo with an odd fixation on her. But Revik tells her dark, anti-human Seers run everything, and they’ve targeted Allie.

They believe she will free their people from enslavement.

They believe she will kill all the humans.

They believe she will destroy the world.

Now she’s on the run, the police have her family and friends, and the only person left is an uncommunicative, probably-terrorist Seer with a frightening ability with a gun.

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Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. The first chapter in an epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning romance that can get dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.
Every book ends on a completed arc.

**NOTE: A different version of this novel was previously titled “Rook” (same series name)

Angular features. Freakishly tall, with pale, unnerving, colorless eyes. He moved unlike anyone I’d ever seen. He couldn’t possibly be human. He had to be one of them.

Allie…

“And Death will live among them in the guise of a child…”

They call her The Bridge. She leads them now. The reality of that, of leading a people and culture she barely understands, would be daunting even without what the myths say about her.

As it is, they look at her, and see the end of the world.

More unnerving still, they want to follow her there.

She’s married now. She still doesn’t know what that means either, not being married to a Seer, and certainly not to her actual husband, who’s never exactly been an easy person to read. A new set of rules around Seer culture and her relationship with the infamous Seer infiltrator, Dehgoies Revik, nearly destroys her marriage before it can really begin.

Then the boy appears.

A sociopath with all of the energetic markings of Syrimne, a deadly telekinetic who killed thousands during World War I, he doesn’t appear to have aged in one hundred years.

Worse, he thinks Allie belongs to him.

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Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. The second chapter in an epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning science fantasy that can get dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.

Every book ends on a completed arc.

**NOTE: A different version of this novel was previously titled “Shield”

“And Death will live among them in the guise of a child…”

They call her The Bridge. She leads them now. The reality of that, of leading a people and culture she barely…

"I was now, officially, a real terrorist…”

After losing her husband, Allie fights to prevent the human and seer worlds from exploding into all-out war.

But her husband, Revik, isn’t really gone.

Instead he’s transformed into someone she barely knows.

Now they’re on opposites sides of a racial war––a war he wants to see play out, a war he’s ready for, and worse, one he’s already fighting.

Compromise with him might be impossible, but it also might be the only way she can save him from himself.

It might also be the only way to keep him from killing everyone she loves.

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Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. The third chapter in an epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning romance that can get dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.

Slow burn. Fated Mates. Enemies to lovers. Forced marriage. Rejected mates.

Every book ends on a completed arc.

**NOTE: A different version of this novel was previously titled “Sword” (same series name)

"I was now, officially, a real terrorist…”

After losing her husband, Allie fights to prevent the human and seer worlds from exploding into all-out war.

But her husband,…

“You’ve been the bad guy so long, you don’t remember what it’s like to be good.”

The year was 1974… and she’d finally found him.

Prior to meeting Allie Taylor in San Francisco, infamous seer and infiltrator, Dehgoies Revik, lived life as a senior lieutenant of dark, anti-human, terrorist seers known as the Rooks. By 1974, he’s worked for their leader, Galaith, for over thirty years, ever since Galaith first pulled him out of a Nazi prison in Berlin.

Living the life of a degenerate and an assassin, Revik hasn’t been happy in years. He tells himself it doesn’t matter, that he’s helping his people, working for “the Org,” what insiders call the Rooks’ network. He believes it, too, until a strange female Seer finds him in Vietnam and forces him to confront who he really is, and what he’s let himself become.

Revik begins to question his role as one of the dark architects of seer history, and soon finds himself at odds with the people he considers his comrades and friends. He sees how quickly they turn on him, even as they fight to bring him back into the fold.

“You’ve been the bad guy so long, you don’t remember what it’s like to be good.”

The year was 1974… and she’d finally found him.

Prior to meeting Allie Taylor in San…

“All what he has done, he has done for the greater good…”

Allie stole her husband from the rebels, and now half the seer race wants her dead. Her husband, Revik, infamous “Sword,” and leader of the anti-human rebellion, freed millions when he destroyed the despised Registry system, destroying work camps and making him even more of a hero to his people.

But Allie didn’t take Revik to stop his terrorism.

She took him to save his mind and soul from the Dreng, the dark beings who control him.

As for Revik himself, he turns into a feral animal once separated from his dark masters.

She only has one shot to save him. Unfortunately, it means going into his past, and learning exactly what the Dreng did to break him.

It also means re-earning his trust, a near-impossible task given what she had to do to get him free.

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Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. The fourth chapter in an epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning science fantasy that can get dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.

Slow burn. Fated Mates. Enemies to lovers. Forced marriage. Rejected mates.

Every book ends on a completed arc.

**NOTE: A different version of this novel was previously titled “Shadow”

“All what he has done, he has done for the greater good…”

Allie stole her husband from the rebels, and now half the seer race wants her dead. Her husband, Revik, infamous…

“I thought the two of you were scary individually.” He raised his voice against the wind. “Together, you’re worse. You know that, right? A lot worse, man.”

Plagued by prescient nightmares and with hostile seers on their trail, Allie and Revik set up camp in New York, along with the remnants of their alliance.

Then a human-killing virus strikes San Francisco.

Allie’s loved ones begin to disappear.

Allie and Revik are forced to make impossible choices: robbing banks, dealing with double agents, hunting assassins and spies, building a refugee camp out of a five-star hotel––fixing their marriage.

Meanwhile, Allie’s brother, Jon, is going through big changes of his own.

He and ex-rebel, Wreg, search for humans on a list marking them as key players in the apocalypse––an apocalypse which already seems to be underway.

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Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. The fifth chapter in an epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning science fantasy that can get dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.

The main relationship in this book is heterosexual, however this book has an explicit M/M relationship, as well. There are also quite a few bisexual characters.

Every book ends on a completed arc.

**NOTE: A different version of this novel was previously titled “Knight”

“I thought the two of you were scary individually.” He raised his voice against the wind. “Together, you’re worse. You know that, right? A lot worse, man.”

Plagued by prescient…

“He’s a sociopath, brother Quay, so have a care…”

Feigran was a normal seer once. But that was a long time ago.

He had a family, a home, a sister. He remembers love. He remembers friendship, too. He remembers when his best friend betrayed him.

Now he is Terian, one of the highest-ranked seers in “The Org,” the feared dark seers working behind the scenes to enslave humanity.

Junior agent Quay knows nothing of Terian’s past. He struggles to climb the Org ranks when he meets Terian at a work camp in Brazil, and finds himself assigned to work under him.

When their top secret mission takes a peculiar twist, Quay realizes he’s caught up in something much bigger, something that might signal a whole new epoch in the war against humans. Worse, his dangerous new friend Terian stands at the heart of it, with a wrong to avenge and a debt to settle, and he might get all of them killed.

“He’s a sociopath, brother Quay, so have a care…”

Feigran was a normal seer once. But that was a long time ago.

He had a family, a home, a sister. He remembers love. He…

“For her Light shines the brightest, in the very Darkest of times…”

Shadow’s deadly disease now blankets the planet.

Everything points to the apocalypse, with earthquakes, rising tides, hurricanes, and New York now a military-run lockdown guarded by rich humans.

To top it off, Allie’s husband, Revik, is acting really strange––and everyone seems to know why but her.

Sociopathic seer Ditrini tells Allie Shadow is coming for her next. Only this time, he’s bringing his new pet intermediary, War, the fourth of the Four.

War is hell-bent on bringing the end of human race for good––and Allie along with it.

Unfortunately, she’s also one of Allie’s closest friends.

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Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. The sixth chapter in an epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning science fantasy that can get dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.

The main relationship in this book is heterosexual, however this book has an explicit M/M relationship, as well. There are also quite a few bisexual characters.

Every book ends on a completed arc.

**NOTE: A different version of this novel was previously titled “War”

“For her Light shines the brightest, in the very Darkest of times…”

Shadow’s deadly disease now blankets the planet.

Everything points to the apocalypse, with earthquakes,…

“Up here, we are forever children…”

Revik, infamous Sword of the seer world, lost everything when his enemies destroyed the mind of his wife, Allie, and stole their unborn child.

Doomed to fight the last battle alone, Revik hunkers down in post-apocalyptic San Francisco, preparing for that inevitable war.

Aware of the slim odds of his own survival, he longs only to rescue his child––even if that means killing her to prevent the torment he endured as the Dreng’s slave.

Unfortunately, the Dreng know his weaknesses all too well. Revik might be the most powerful seer the world has ever seen, but even with the help of his son, an increasingly powerful telekinetic in his own right, Revik can't see a way to saving his family… or a wife he loves more than life itself.

In a war against the forces of darkness, and the evil seer who raised him, brutalized him, and stole everything from him, the only way to win might be to destroy whatever’s left.

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Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. The seventh chapter in an epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning science fantasy that can get dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.

The main relationship in this book is heterosexual, however this book has an explicit M/M relationship, as well. There are also quite a few bisexual characters.

Every book ends on a completed arc.

**NOTE: A different version of this novel was previously titled “Bridge”

“Up here, we are forever children…”

Revik, infamous Sword of the seer world, lost everything when his enemies destroyed the mind of his wife, Allie, and stole their unborn…

He would be despised. By all of them, he would be despised.

The shadow of the Rooks hangs over Revik’s head, a constant reminder of the dark warrior he used to be.

Hidden away in monastic caves after he leaves the anti-human, terrorist seers, Revik no longer knows who he is, or what his life means.

Then a delegation of renowned holy warriors, the Adhipan, appears, asking for his help. Adhipan leader Balidor requests Revik personally, along with one of his top lieutenants, a disturbingly beautiful seer named Dalejem.

Revik’s first impulse is to say no. He says no, repeatedly, until they tell him it is Kali who needs saving––Kali, who rescued Revik from the dark, when no one else would.

Revik agrees to fly across the world, to face off against his old crew, the Rooks, and his ex-partner, Terian, who clearly holds a serious grudge. Faced with old demons and new struggles, Revik fights to answer the question that won’t go away: is he evil or good? And what is he willing to give up to be the man he desperately wants to be?

In the end, he thinks he’s got nothing left to lose.

It turns out he’s wrong about that, too.

SERIES NOTE: This is a Revik and Dalejem prequel in the apocalyptic Bridge and Sword series, and companion to Terian (A Bridge and Sword Novel).

He would be despised. By all of them, he would be despised.

The shadow of the Rooks hangs over Revik’s head, a constant reminder of the dark warrior he used to be.

Hidden…

“In through the out door. Further down. Below…”

Allie and Revik race to rescue the remaining seers and humans on the Displacement List, a prophetic list of humans and seers meant to rebuild the world after the apocalypse.

Shadow, leader on Earth of dark beings known as “the Dreng,” wants nothing more than to eliminate every name listed. He systematically murders every one he finds. With the Dreng’s vast resources, their complete control over the remaining quarantine cities, and over the minds of most humans, Allie fears they’ve lost too many already.

Then a mysterious new player starts buying up List seers on the black market. Allie and Revik assume Shadow is behind that too, but instead of killing the seers immediately, as Shadow had done, the new buyer smuggles them into Dubai. As more and more Listers disappear into the walled off city, the most heavily guarded of all of Shadow’s enclaves, Revik and Allie wonder if maybe Shadow isn’t behind it at all.

Meanwhile, on the personal and political front, Allie’s world starts to unravel.

The people closest to her seem to be slowly turning against her, losing faith in her leadership, lying to her, even plotting against her.

Including––maybe especially––her own husband.

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Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. The eighth chapter in an epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning science fantasy that can get dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.

The main relationship in this book is heterosexual, however the series has an explicit M/M relationship, and most of the characters are bisexual.

Every book ends on a completed arc.

**NOTE: A different version of this novel was previously titled “Prophet”

“In through the out door. Further down. Below…”

Allie and Revik race to rescue the remaining seers and humans on the Displacement List, a prophetic list of humans and seers…

Everyone said to let her go.
To let the devil and her dark masters take her.
But he can’t do that.
He just can’t.

Everyone told him Cass couldn’t be saved.

All of them, even Allie and Jon, Cass’s childhood friends, believe she’s too far gone.

She chose the darkest of dark paths, betraying everyone who loved her, nearly killing her best friend, Allie, and destroying Allie’s mind in the process. After Cass became a minion of the dark being, Shadow, she nearly killed them all. After everything she put them through, the rest of their team mostly wants her dead.

But Balidor can’t bring himself to let her go.

Using his vast abilities and psychic training, he leads Cass through the darkness of her own mind, trying desperately to bring back the woman he loved before Shadow broke her.

SERIES NOTE: This is a Balidor and Cass companion novel to the Bridge and Sword world and takes place between books #8 and #9 in the main series.

Everyone said to let her go.
To let the devil and her dark masters take her.
But he can’t do that.
He just can’t.

Everyone told him Cass couldn’t be saved.

All of them,…

“In the end, those damned Mythers got it right. The Dark Angel of Death, the Bringer of Destruction… it was me all along.”

Allie and Revik barely escape Dubai with their lives, and neither leaves that Dreng stronghold unscathed. Revik’s light and mind are compromised, as is the light of their daughter, Lily. Either or both could be turned with the flip of a switch, forced to kill or sabotage everyone they love. Both are tied inextricably to Shadow and the Dreng via their seer’s living light.

All they can do is run. The forces of Darkness, led by Shadow, take chase. Meanwhile, Shadow and his followers continue to grow stronger, cover more ground, expand their sphere of influence.

They can’t run forever. Allie knows they can’t.

Revik knows it, too. He comes up with a plan––a crazy plan, one that might wipe out everything and everyone he and Allie hold dear.

A plan that means sacrificing himself for one last shot at Shadow.

Then Dragon appears, another broken intermediary with unbelievable power.

He might just be the most dangerous seer Allie’s ever encountered––including her husband, who Dragon seems determined to hunt for reasons of his own.

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Psychic suspense. Apocalyptic. The next to last chapter in an epic, soul-crushing, world-spanning science fantasy that gets dark, dark, dark… but also contains a lot of light.

The main relationship in this series is heterosexual, however it has an explicit M/M relationship, and most of the characters are bisexual.

Every book ends on a completed arc.

**NOTE: A different version of this novel was previously titled “Dragon”

“In the end, those damned Mythers got it right. The Dark Angel of Death, the Bringer of Destruction… it was me all along.”

Allie and Revik barely escape Dubai with their lives,…

For the light must die as we are reborn.
The stars must fall as the Thousand rise.
The end must come before the sun returns.

Myther armies pop up around the globe, murdering seers and humans, taking over quarantine cities.

Worse, the grisly, ritualistic murders aren’t just sadistic, but part of a millennia-long plan of the Dreng to leave Earth, destroying the planet and murdering most of its inhabitants in the process.

Allie and Revik have no time left to fix things between them - and no future left to put things off.

Cobbling together the last of their forces, they launch a final counter-offensive, teaming up with unlikely allies and using every weapon left at their disposal.

Only together with their entire dysfunctional “family” can they change the course of history and forge a new hope for both races.

In this final installment of the epic science-fantasy series, Allie and Revik fight their final war of all against all.

From USA TODAY and WALL STREET JOURNAL bestselling author, a psychic warfare adventure set in a gritty alternate version of Earth. Contains strong romantic elements. Apocalyptic SciFi. Psychic Romance.

THE BRIDGE & SWORD SERIES is a dark, gritty science fiction and apocalyptic series with strong romantic elements, starring Alyson Taylor and her partner, dark and dangerous infiltrator, Dehgoies Revik. For fans of gritty, character-driven science fiction and fantasy worlds, filled with twists and turns and backstabbing betrayals, with heroes and villains who can be equally relatable (and sometimes the same people). The Bridge & Sword books span continents and historical periods as Allie and Revik try to save the human and seer races from destroying one another, and keep their friends and loved ones alive in the process.

The world is dying. Everyone feels it, and yet... no one knows.
They said that when the end was near, a Bridge would come, and lead them out of the darkness of that dying world.
My name is Allie Taylor, and I am that Bridge.

For the light must die as we are reborn.
The stars must fall as the Thousand rise.
The end must come before the sun returns.

Myther armies pop up around the globe, murdering…