The Reckoning (Book 2 of The Taker Trilogy)
The Reckoning: Book Two of the Taker Trilogy
The Reckoning (Book 2 of The Taker Trilogy)
Alma Katsu
A love triangle spanning 200 years…Alma Katsu takes readers on a breathtaking journey through the landscape of the heart.SECOND IN ALMA KATSU’S GRIPPING SUPERNATURAL TRILOGY THAT BEGAN WITH THE TAKER Lanore McIlvrae is the kind of woman who will do anything for love. Including imprisoning the man who loves her behind a wall of brick and stone. She had no choice but to entomb Adair, her nemesis, to save Jonathan, the boy she grew up with in a remote Maine town in the early 1800s and the man she thought she would be with forever. But Adair had other plans for her. He used his mysterious, otherworldly powers to give her eternal life, but Lanore learned too late that there was a price for this gift: to spend eternity with him. And though he is handsome and charming, behind Adair’s seductive façade is the stuff of nightmares. He is a monster in the flesh, and he wants Lanore to love him for all of time. Now, two hundred years after imprisoning Adair, Lanore is trying to atone for her sins. She has given away the treasures she’s collected over her many lifetimes in order to purge her past and clear the way for a future with her new lover, Luke Findley. But, while viewing these items at an exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Lanore suddenly is aware that the thing she’s been dreading for two hundred years has caught up to her: Adair has escaped from his prison. He’s free— and he will come looking for her. And she has no idea how she will save herself. With the stunningly imaginative storytelling and rich characterizations that fascinated readers worldwide and made The Taker a singular and memorable literary debut and an international sensation, Alma Katsu once again delivers “a powerful evocation of the dark side of romantic love” (Publishers Weekly) in her breathtaking new novel.

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  • Fiction

Age Level: 

  • Mature Young Adult
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Lanore is not like all of us. She was born in the 1800s and is now over 200 years old, because she was captured and made immortal. Then trapped her wicked maker, Adair. Its now been 200 years since she and her best friend and lover Johnathan trapped him behind a brick wall in his own house, and a lot has happened since. Now she lives with her new lover Luke Findlay in London and is sorting through all of her accumulated treasures to give away. Then, while looking at her items at a museum, she feels it.

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