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Magistrate Wen Chang, famed for his investigative powers, and his young physician assistant, Kasimir, set out to recover Stonecutter and return the stolen Sword to its rightful owner, Prince Mark. The Red Temple, Blue Temple and a gang of rebels, each for their own purposes, are intent on possessing the Sword. A mysterious young girl, Natasha, enlisted by Kasimir as a spy, fascinates Kasimir, but can she be trusted? Listeners will need all their powers of ratiocination to unravel this adventure of the Sword of Siege

As Soldiers Live opens, Croaker is military dictator of all the Taglias, and no Black Company member has died in battle for four years. Croaker figures it can't last. He's right. For, of course, many of the Company's old adversaries are still around. Narayan Singh and his adopted daughter - actually the offspring of Croaker and the Lady - hope to bring about the apocalyptic Year of the Skulls. Other old enemies like Shadowcatcher, Longshadow, and Howler are also ready to do the Company harm.

When Nathaliey, a young wizard, is taken prisoner by marauders trying to break her will and force her to join the sorcerer's acolytes, the last help she expects is from the griffin riders who have harassed her and her companions through the mountains. But when their chief rescues Nathaliey from an enemy-held castle, the griffin riders join a temporary alliance of wizards and paladins to push back the sorcerer's invasion.

The hour of reckoning is at hand. The skies darken with the forces of the enemy while the hopes of the armies of the light dwindle to but a candle flame. Morals, compunctions, oaths - all must be set aside, every sacrifice made, every advantage and ally sought if there is to be any chance for survival. Unpredictable, fast paced, and packed with unforgettable characters, The White Song is the final installment in a gripping new epic fantasy series. Grab your copy today!

Quillifer is young, serially in love, studying law, and living each day keenly aware that his beloved homeport of Ethlebight risks closure due to silting of the harbor. His concerns for the future become much more immediate when he returns from a summery assignation to find his city attacked by Aekoi pirates, leading to brigands in the streets and his family and friends in chains.

The land is in the grip of a brutal winter when a desperate cry for help from one of his former sword brothers draws Akiri and Kyra up into the mountains beyond Erdogan Pass. But they are too late. Met on the way by his friend's son, they arrive to find the village ablaze and his sword brother, Cammeric, his wife and daughter slain, leaving the boy an orphan. The fell beast that murdered his family is no mere man - it is the rotten husk of a warrior brought back from the grave and will stop at nothing to fulfill its master's bidding.

After the death of the paladin captain and the defeat of the sorcerer's attack, apprentice wizards Markal and Nathaliey flee their homeland with the red sword in the hopes of carrying it to safety in the barbarian homelands. They must cross the mountains ahead of the sorcerer's marauders while avoiding the giants and griffins that infest the high passes. But before they can cross, the two companions are taken prisoner by a band of paladins who are convinced that Markal and Nathaliey are lying about their captain's death.

He was a champion of sword magic sworn to track the hounds of hoolies. Yet before Tiger waited perils far deadlier than any hounds - the Dragon's Lair. A magical novel of sword and spell from the author of Sword-Dancer and Sword-Singer.

Sword-Singer once again unites Del and Tiger - she among the greatest of Northern sword masters, he a Southern warrior of legendary skills - on a new and perilous journey into the North, to the Place of Swords, where Del must submit to trial-by-combat for the slaying of her sword-master.

He was Tiger, born of the desert winds, raised as a slave and winning his freedom by weaving a special kind of magic with a warrior's skill. Now he was an almost legendary sword-dancer, ready to take on any challenge - if the price was right…or if the woman pretty enough. She was Del, born of ice and storm, trained by the greatest of Northern sword masters. Now, her ritual training completed and steeped in the special magic of her own rune sword, she had come South in search of the young brother stolen five years before.

Cress ha diciassette anni e un miglior amico, Charlie. Entrambi orfani e desiderosi di rendersi indipendenti, scappano dalla loro tutrice. Ma tra le strade di New York si aggira un misterioso individuo in impermeabile e mascherina anti-smog, un essere dall’aspetto mostruoso e inumano, che rapisce Charlie. Cress è disposto a tutto pur di ritrovarlo. Erynni, una strega-telepate che vive in una casa a forma di gabbia di uccello, decide di aiutarlo, e di presentarlo agli altri inquilini: Jonsi, in cerca anche lui di una persona scomparsa, e Sakura, figlia di uno stregone giapponese, venuta in America per tenere fede a una vecchia promessa.

Nachdem es Galiläa nicht gelang, den Fluch zu brechen, beschließt sie für den Frieden der Vampirländer Prinz Arvid zu heiraten. Ihre Gedanken wurden von Aleoren manipuliert, was es ihr erschwert, zwischen Lüge und Wahrheit zu entscheiden. Mit der Zeit jedoch kehren ihre realen Erinnerungen an Zagan zurück, der weiterhin in Nachts Reich festgehalten wird. Galiläa versucht alles, um nach Lybnia zurückzukehren. Mit einer Intrige gelingt es ihr, ins Dämonenreich zu gelangen und muss sich Kallistras skrupellosen Spielchen beugen, um in Dunkelheits Nähe zu sein.

Nachdem Galiläa in Zagans magisches Dämonenreich entführt wurde, versucht sie mit geschickten Verhandlungen, dem Dunkelreich so schnell wie möglich den Rücken zuzukehren. Schließlich muss sie zurück in die Vampirwelt. Wenn es doch so leicht wäre. Zagan will sie unter keinen Umständen gehen lassen, da sie der Schlüssel ist, um den Fluch zu lösen. Gefangen im Dunkelreich lernt Galiläa Zagan und seine Gefährten mit der Zeit von einer anderen Seite kennen, kann aber Prinz Arvid nicht vergessen.

Gefährlich. Aufregend. Romantisch. Eines weiß die junge Vampir-Prinzessin Galiläa mit Gewissheit: Sie wird den Thronerben Skandinaviens Prinz Arvid nicht heiraten. Daher kommt nur eines infrage: Sie muss fliehen! Auf ihrer Reise mit ihrer Zofe begegnet sie einem geheimnisvollen Fremden mit betörend grünen Augen, der eine gefährliche Begabung beherrscht – die Magie der Dunkelheit. Gezeichnet von einem Fluch, ist ihm jede Täuschung recht, sie für sich zu gewinnen und in sein Reich zu locken. Zudem ist Prinz Arvid auf der Suche nach der geflohenen Prinzessin.