Алма Катсу – лучшие книги

1846 год. Девяносто мужчин, женщин и детей под предводительством Джеймса Доннера отправляются в Калифорнию на поиски лучшей жизни. Они ещё не знают, что это путешествие войдёт в историю — как одно из самых гибельных. С каждым днём дорога всё тяжелее. Всплывают секреты, которые участники экспедиции надеялись похоронить навсегда. Лютая стужа замораживает волов…

Говорили, что этот лайнер роскошнее, чем любой из существующих кораблей. Говорили, что он непотопляем. Но «Титаник» затонул в первом же плавании, и ещё прежде, чем корабль столкнулся с айсбергом, на борту его творилось нечто зловещее… и потустороннее.

Энни Хеббли пережила гибель «Титаника». Она годами пыталась оправиться от произошедшего — не только от катастрофы. Она хотела забыть об ужасах, творившихся на борту лайнера, но прошлое невозможно стереть. На борту плавучего госпиталя «Британник» Энни придётся погрузиться в страшные воспоминания. Ведь «Британник» — близнец «Титаника», и кошмар повторится вновь…

Темной ночью в больницу маленького городка Сент-Эндрю привозят молодую женщину по имени Ланор. Полицейские, доставившие ее сюда, говорят, что она только что убила в лесу мужчину. Оставив арестованную на попечение доктора Люка Финдли – вся ее одежда в крови, возможно, она ранена, – полиция возвращается на место преступления. Ланор тем временем умоляет Люка отпустить ее, ибо она ни в чем не виновна, и то, что она совершила, не было убийством. А затем рассказывает врачу совершенно невероятную историю своей жизни – историю женщины, которая точно знает, что вечная любовь все-таки существует. И вечная ненависть. И вечная боль. Потому что та, кто носит эти чувства в своем сердце – сама Ланор, – тоже вечна…

1944: As World War II rages on, the threat has come to the home front. In a remote corner of Idaho, Meiko Briggs and her daughter, Aiko, are desperate to return home. Following Meiko's husband's enlistment as an air force pilot in the Pacific months prior, Meiko and Aiko were taken from their home in Seattle and sent to one of the internment camps in the Midwest. It didn’t matter that Aiko was American-born: They were Japanese, and therefore considered a threat by the American government.

Mother and daughter attempt to hold on to elements of their old life in the camp when a mysterious disease begins to spread among those interned. What starts as a minor cold quickly becomes spontaneous fits of violence and aggression, even death. And when a disconcerting team of doctors arrive, nearly more threatening than the illness itself, Meiko and her daughter team up with a newspaper reporter and widowed missionary to investigate, and it becomes clear to them that something more sinister is afoot, a demon from the stories of Meiko’s childhood, hell-bent on infiltrating their already strange world.

Inspired by the Japanese yokai and the jorogumo spider demon, The Fervor explores the horrors of the supernatural beyond just the threat of the occult. With a keen and prescient eye, Katsu crafts a terrifying story about the danger of demonization, a mysterious contagion, and the search to stop its spread before it's too late. A sharp account of too-recent history, it's a deep excavation of how we decide who gets to be human when being human matters most.

Лондонские сити-бой и сити-гёл оказываются на рождество в маленькой валлийской деревушке. Естественно местные хотят их проучить, дескать, а чего они тут все такие красивенькие! Но не знали местные, что парень с девушкой не просто ТОЖЕ местные, а еще и древние.

I turned to Luke and reached for him. My blood felt as though it had seized up in my veins.
"Lanny, what is it?" Luke asked.
I clutched his lapel desperately
"It's Adair. He's free."

FOR 200 YEARS SHE'S BEEN HIDING

He gave her immortality.
She tried to destroy him.
Now he is searching for her.
They must not meet.
Or there will be a RECKONING

An exhilarating spy thriller about two women CIA agents who become intertwined around a threat to the Russia Division--one that's coming from inside the agency.

Lyndsey Duncan worries her career with the CIA might be over. After lines are crossed with another intelligence agent during her most recent assignment, she is sent home to Washington on administrative leave. So when a former colleague, now Chief of the Russia Division, recruits her for an internal investigation, she jumps at the chance to prove herself once more. Lyndsey was once a top handler in the Moscow Field Station, known as the "human lie detector" and praised for recruiting some of the most senior Russian officials. But now, three Russian assets have been discovered--including one of her own--and the CIA is convinced there's a mole in the department. With years of work in question, and lives on the line, Lyndsey is thrown back into life at the agency, only this time tracing the steps of those closest to her.

Meanwhile, fellow agent Theresa Warner can't avoid the spotlight. She is the infamous "Red Widow," the wife of a former director killed in the field under mysterious circumstances. With her husband's legacy shadowing her every move, Theresa is a fixture of the Russia Division, and as she and Lyndsey strike up an unusual friendship, her knowledge proves invaluable. But as Lyndsey uncovers a surprising connection to Theresa that could answer all of her questions, she exposes a terrifying web of secrets within the department, if only she is willing to unravel it...

The final installment in the “mesmerizing” (Booklist, starred review) and addictive trilogy—find out who truly holds the key to Lanny’s heart and whether she’ll ever be reunited with her beloved in this gripping supernatural tale of magic, lust, and longing.

Lanore McIlvrae has been on the run from Adair for hundreds of years, dismayed by his mysterious powers and afraid of his temper. She betrayed Adair’s trust and imprisoned him behind a stone wall to save Jonathan, the love of her life. When Adair was freed 200 years later, she was sure that he would find her and make her existence a living hell. But things turned out far different than she’d imagined.

Four years later, Lanore has tracked Adair to his mystical island home, where he has been living in self-imposed exile, to ask for a favor. She wants Adair to send her to the hereafter so she may beg the Queen of the Underworld to release Jonathan, whom she has been keeping as her consort. Will Lanore honor her promise to Adair to return? Or is her intention to reunite with Jonathan at any cost?

Of all the forces of the universe, the most mysterious, confounding, and humbling is the power of love. The epic story of love and loss, magic and destiny that began with The Taker and sparked a chase around the world in The Reckoning comes to a surprising conclusion with The Descent.