The Reckoning Audiobook (Free)

In the next installment in her supernatural Taker trilogy, Alma Katsu, writer of the highly acclaimed The Hunger, goes on the breathtaking 200-year journey through the landscaping of the heart.

Lanore McIlvrae is the kind of female who will carry out anything for love. Including imprisoning the person who enjoys her behind a wall of brick and stone.

She had no choice but to entomb Adair, her nemesis, to save lots of Jonathan, the boy she grew up with within a remote Maine town in the first 1800s and the person she about The Reckoning thought she’d be with forever. But Adair experienced other plans on her behalf. He utilized his secret, otherworldly powers to give her eternal life, but Lanore learned too past due that there is a price because of this gift: to invest eternity with him. And though he is good-looking and enchanting, behind Adair’s seductive façade is the stuff of nightmares. He’s a monster in the flesh, and he desires Lanore to like him for all of time.

Now, two hundred years after imprisoning Adair, Lanore is wanting to atone on her behalf sins. She’s distributed the treasures she’s gathered over her many lifetimes in order to purge her previous and clear the way for a future with her new lover, Luke Findley. But, while viewing these items at an exhibit on the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Lanore all of a sudden is aware that finished . she’s been dreading for just two hundred years offers caught up to her: Adair provides escaped from his prison. He’s free of charge…and he will come looking on her behalf. And she’s no idea how she’ll 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 more delivers “a robust evocation from the dark side of romantic love” (Publishers Weekly).