The Serpent’s Curse by Lisa Maxwell
Evade the serpent.
Heed the curse.
Rewrite the present.
Esta isn’t a stranger to high-stakes heists. She’s a seasoned thief who has no reservations about using her affinity for time to give her an edge, and she’s trained her whole life for one mission: travel back to 1902 New York, steal the ancient Book of Mysteries, and use its power to destroy the Brink and free the Mageus from the Order’s control.
But the Book held a danger that no one anticipated—Seshat, an angry goddess was trapped within its pages. Now that terrible power lives within Harte, and if given the chance, Seshat will use Esta to destroy the world and take her revenge.
Only Esta and Harte stand in her way.
Yet in their search to recover the elemental stones needed to bind Seshat’s power, Esta and Harte have found themselves stranded in time with a continent between them. As Esta fights to get back to Harte, the Order is no longer the only obstacle standing in her way.
Saving Harte—and magic itself—will put even Esta’s skills to the test. And all the while, another danger grows, one more terrible than both Seshat and the Order combined…
- File Name:the-serpents-curse-by-lisa-maxwell.epub
- Original Title:The Serpent's Curse
- Creator:Lisa Maxwell
- Language:en-US
- Identifier:calibre:66884
- Publisher:Margaret K. McElderry Books
- Date:2021-04-13T00:00:00+00:00
- File Size:9.998 MB
Table of Content
- 1. Cover
- 2. Title Page
- 3. Maps
- 4. Dedication
- 5. The Serpent
- 6. The Girl with the Knife
- 7. Anticipation
- 8. Part I
- An Unfamiliar Country
- A Whispering Certainty
- Surrounded
- The Cold Within
- A Revelation
- No Such Thing as Too Late
- Impossible Choices
- The Moment Approaching
- The Cover of Night
- Exiled
- The White Woman
- Déjà Vu
- A Partnership of Sorts
- Misdirection
- 9. Part II
- On Dawson Place
- Corsicana
- On the Hook
- Fury and Grief
- Not Completely, Not Enough
- The Bulldogger
- The Mark of the Antistasi
- A Wrong Turn
- A Serpent Made of Bone
- The Traitor
- A New Alliance
- The Summons
- Blood Will Tell
- Careless Violence
- Complications
- A Truth Too Terrible
- The Ouroboros
- The Heart of the Matter
- Time’s Fanged Jaws
- Gone
- The Trials of Others
- Friends in High Places
- A Simple Trick
- Revelations
- There’s Always a Choice
- His Father’s Son
- The Professor
- A Wicked Bit of Magic
- Plans to Make
- Complicit
- A Promise Kept
- Sigillum
- A Devil’s Bargain
- The Evening Show
- The End of the Line
- Surrounded
- The Hands that Held Him Down
- Fated
- From the Depths
- Time and Its Opposite
- Promises Kept
- The Right Incentive
- A Rescue
- Outmaneuvered
- A Twisted Knot
- 10. Part III
- New Alliances
- A Premonition
- True Power
- The Tunnels
- To Touch Her Once More
- Jagged Hope
- The World Crumbles
- A New Alliance
- Waking
- Blood in the Vein
- Not Negotiable
- Inescapable
- 11. Part IV
- The Changed City
- The Dragon’s Eye
- The Ars Arcana
- The Dragon’s Pearl
- What Came After
- The Reticulum
- Past Fears Made Present
- Trapped in Time
- Unexpected
- Time Held Its Breath
- Lost
- The Night-Dark Country
- Complications
- 12. Part V
- Traffic and Luck
- No Reason to Choose
- The Devil’s Mark
- Minor Gods
- In for a Penny
- The Chicago Outfit
- Quite a Predicament
- The City’s Shadows
- An Expected Interruption
- Times Change
- The Golden Hour
- The Truth of History
- The Nitemarket
- Adesso
- A Cold Energy
- Impossible Choices
- The Problem of the Ring
- The Mysterium
- Stubborn to a Fault
- Already Falling
- An Awakening
- Out of Time
- Brittle Bones
- Unexpected
- Riotous Fury
- Caught Between
- Falling into Darkness
- The Serpent’s Curse
- All That Matters
- Nearly Home
- What Was to Come
- 13. Author’s Note
- 14. Acknowledgments
- 15. About the Author
- 16. Copyright
Lisa Maxwell
