Arwen Elys Dayton

The night Quin Kincaid takes her Oath, she will become what she has trained to be her entire life. She will become a Seeker. This is her legacy, and it is an honor.As a Seeker, Quin will fight beside her two closest companions, Shinobu and John, to protect the weak and the wronged. Together they will stand for light in a shadowy world.And she’ll be with the boy she loves–who’s also her best friend. But the night Quin takes her Oath, everything changes.Being a Seeker is not what she thought. Her family is not what she thought. Even the boy she loves is not who she thought. And now it’s too late to walk away.

One house will rise.Quin has spent her life as her father’s pawn. She was trained to kill and manipulated to guarantee her family’s power. And now that she’s broken free of that life, she’s found herself trapped again, hostage to a plot that has been centuries in the making.It’s taken generations for the pieces to come together, and finally all is in place. Shinobu’s mind has been corrupted, the Young Dread has aligned with John, and Watchers are being awakened and gathered. Now there is nothing that can stop the force of time.But Quin will no longer be a pawn. Quin is a Seeker. She stands for light in a shadowy world. She will face the vengeance of the past and its enemies and save herself and the ones she loves, or she will die trying.

For fans of television shows Black Mirror and Westworld, this compelling, mind-bending novel is a twisted look into the future, exploring how far we will go to remake ourselves into the perfect human specimen and what it means to be human at all.Set in our world, spanning the near to distant futures, Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful is a novel made up of six interconnected stories that ask how far we will go to remake ourselves into the perfect human specimens, and how hard that will push the definition of "human."This extraordinary work explores the amazing possibilities of genetic manipulation and life extension, as well as the ethical quandaries that will arise with these advances. The results range from the heavenly to the monstrous. Deeply thoughtful, poignant, horrifying, and action-packed, Arwen Elys Dayton's Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful is groundbreaking in both form and substance.

Five thousand years ago, the Kinley built a ship capable of traveling faster than light. It carried a group of scientists to a small, distant planet - a primitive place called Earth. Its mission was peaceful observation. But when the ship was destroyed, the Kinley crew found themselves stranded in ancient Egypt, participants in the pageant of life in the time of the Pharaohs. They buried remnants of their technology deep beneath the desert and sent a last desperate message home….Five thousand years later, the Kinley homeworld hovers on the brink of extinction. An enemy that nearly obliterated their race has risen again - now with the ability to destroy them for good. A lone Kinley soldier named Pruit is sent on a desperate mission: to follow the ancient beacon back to Earth and recover the secrets to faster-than-light travel. It is their last hope. Technology that once allowed them to cross vast reaches of space might allow them to outrun their enemies and find a safe world to call their own. But Pruit’s mission will be harder than she can imagine. Her quest will draw her enemies after her and will awaken ancient foes on Earth. As she gets closer to what she seeks, she will find each adversary willing to risk everything to stop her, each hoping to steal the knowledge for themselves.The rivals will meet in modern-day Egypt and their struggle will alter the fate of worlds.©2012 Arwen Elys Dayton (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Quin Kincaid is a Seeker. Her legacy is an honor, an ancient role passed down for generations. But what she learned on her oath night changed her world forever.Quin pledged her life to deception. Her legacy as a Seeker is not noble but savage. She was trained to be an assassin. And the boy she once loved is out for vengeance, with her family in his sights. Yet Quin is not alone. Shinobu, her oldest companion, might now be the only person she can trust. The only one who wants answers as desperately as she does.But the deeper they dig into the past, the darker things become. There are long-vanished Seeker families, shadowy alliances, and something else: a sinister plan begun generations ago with the power to end the legacy forever. And it might destroy them all.

When she’s awake in the world, the Young Dread can hear an enemy approach from a mile away, manipulate a whipsword into a thousand forms, and attack with it faster than the human eye can see.And yet, the Young Dread is not often awake. She, like the Old and the Middle Dreads, lives outside the stream of time, frozen for vast stretches. She was a child in the 1400s, but she’s alive today, and aged only into a teen.She wakes for short bursts, to observe the training of the families known as Seekers. Past and future intertwine in Seeker traditions—they are the keepers of both ancient knowledge and advanced weapons—and the Dreads must oversee it all, testing their skills, swearing them to loyalty, bringing them justice.Master storyteller Arwen Elys Dayton takes readers centuries into the past to follow this ageless Dread’s footsteps. This time, when the Young Dread wakes, things will change. She is about to discover the first threads of a web in which she and so many others will be trapped.A ruthless killer to some, an enigmatic upholder of justice to others, the Young Dread is destined to shape the future in ways she is only beginning to understand.

在奎因·金凯德完成宣誓的那天晚上，她将成为自己整个人生都在为之经受训练的人——一名探寻者。这是她家族的传承，也是一种荣耀。作为探寻者，奎因将与两个*亲密的同伴——忍和约翰——并肩作战，保护那些势单力薄、蒙受冤屈的人。他们是这个黑暗世界的光明。她还将与所爱的男孩在一起——他同时也是奎因*好的朋友。然而，完成宣誓的当晚，一切都改变了。身为一名探寻者并不是她所想象的样子。她的家族，甚至她所爱的那个男孩，都不是她所以为的模样。而现在，要抽身离开已经太迟了。

Die Kinley haben es geschafft, ein Schiff zu bauen, mit dem man schneller reisen kann, als das Licht. Es bringt eine Gruppe Wissenschaftler zu einem weit entfernten Planeten - einem primitiven Ort namens Erde. Es sollte nur eine friedliche Forschungsmission sein, doch als das Schiff zerstört wird, ist die Kinley-Crew im historischen Ägypten gestrandet und muss sich in das Leben zur Zeit der Pharaonen einfügen. Sie begraben die Überreste ihrer Technologie tief unter dem Wüstensand und schicken eine letzte, verzweifelte Nachricht nach Hause. Fünftausend Jahre später befindet sich der Heimatplanet der Kinley am Rande der Zerstörung. Ein uralter Feind, der das Volk der Kinley schon einmal beinahe ausgelöscht hat, erhebt sich aufs Neue - diesmal, um die Kinley endgültig zu vernichten. Pruit, eine Kinley-Soldatin, wird auf eine verzweifelte Mission Sie soll einem uralten Funksignal zurück zur Erde folgen und das Geheimnis wiederfinden, wie man schneller als das Licht reisen kann. Es ist die letzte Hoffnung der Kinley. Mithilfe der Technologie, die es ihnen einst erlaubte, das All zu durchqueren, könnten sie es schaffen, ihren Feinden zu entkommen, und eine sichere Welt, eine neue Heimat finden. Doch Pruits Mission stellt sich als schwieriger heraus, als sie es sich jemals hätte vorstellen können. Ihre Feinde sind ihr dicht auf den Fersen und auch auf der Erde erwachen uralte böse Kräfte wieder zum Leben. Während sie dem Ziel ihrer Suche näher kommt, erkennt sie, dass ihre Gegenspieler vor nichts zurückschrecken, um sie aufzuhalten. Jeder hofft, das Wissen über die Technologie als Erster zu finden und für sich zu gewinnen. Im modernen Ägypten treffen die Rivalen schließlich aufeinander und ihr Kampf wird über das Schicksal der Welten entscheiden.>> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung genießt du exklusiv nur bei Audible.