Category: Fantasy

By Mette Ivie Harrison

He used to be a king, become a undergo as punishment for his merciless and egocentric deeds.

She was once a as soon as a princess, now residing within the kind of a hound.

Wary partners, they're despatched — in human shape — again to a time whilst magic went extraordinarily off beam. jointly they have to correct the wrongs because of this devastating energy — if merely they could be able to belief every one other.

But while every one turns into conscious of an ever-growing appeal, the stakes are emerging and so they needs to have the ability to dispose of this evil strength — or chance wasting one another ceaselessly.

By Douglas Niles

Along with his acclaimed Watershed Trilogy from Ace--and his phenomenally profitable "Dragonlance" sequence from TSR--Douglas Niles turned some of the most promising stars of epic myth event. Starlog journal raved that Niles "writes so good that his characters come to lifestyles after just a couple of sentences." Now this talented storyteller has created a wealthy and intricate new trilogy choked with centaurs, goblins and trolls, druids, elves, and different wonderful beings who reside in an international of peace--until now...

In the area of the Seven Circles, concord has reigned seeing that time immemorial. that's approximately to change....Disaffected participants of the entire races are collecting right into a strength which could spell the doom of the Seven Circles. Strangers to brutality and conflict, the population desire a champion who can educate them to guard themselves. For this, they recruit warriors from a global the place in basic terms the powerful continue to exist. A primitive international the place existence lasts merely so long as you could struggle for it...

A international known as Earth.

"Absolutely no one builds a extra convincing myth realm than Doug Niles." --R.A. Salvatore, New York Times bestselling writer.

By Elizabeth Haydon

The Thief Queen's Daughter, the second one quantity in Elizabeth Haydon's critically-acclaimed The misplaced Journals of Ven Polypheme sequence for heart grade readers, is now on hand with a beautiful new cover.

On his first day at the task as Royal Reporter of the land of Serendair, Charles Magnus Ven Polypheme―known as Ven―is despatched via King Vandemere on a mystery undertaking in the partitions of the Gated urban. The king warns Ven to take care―because when you input the Gated urban, you may by no means be allowed to go away. The Gated urban is governed by means of the strong Raven's Guild, and the guild is governed through the Queen of Thieves.

Ven and his associates input the Gated urban prepared for event. but if one good friend is abducted and it truly is printed that they're touring within the corporation of the runaway daughter of the Queen of Thieves herself, their experience turns lethal. For the ruthless Thief Queen will cease at not anything to get her daughter back…

By Paul B. Thompson

The Elven Exiles trilogy ends with a enormous fight for keep an eye on of the final shelter of the elven race.

The ultimate unfastened elves of Ansalon have come jointly eventually within the kept away from valley of Inath-Wakenti. whereas the disfigured genius Porthios desires to lead a campaign to loose the elves' ancestral homelands, the rightful ruler of the elven country, Gilthas, goals of building a brand new fatherland within the haunted valley. to do this he'll need to resolve the riddle of the traditional ruins dotting the panorama, the curse that forestalls animals from dwelling within the valley, and care for swarms of ghosts lurking in the back of each tree and stone. however the maximum hazard of all may perhaps come from a unmarried outcast sorcerer who seeks to show the cursed land's energy to his personal ends.

By K. J. Parker

An unnamed guy wakes to discover himself dealing with the lack of every thing that concerns such a lot to him. opposed to all odds, he escapes together with his lifestyles and heads out into the turbulence of the broader global, recreating himself, step-by-step, as he is going along.

That wider global is ruled through an empire that has existed for many years in a country of close to perpetual struggle. a number of colourful characters can help to form the future of the empire, and its continuously moving array of allies and adversaries; between them, a grasp army strategist, a former pacifist who inherits his father's moribund fingers enterprise, a stunning forger and a really fortunate counterfeiter. every one of them, including corrupt bureaucrats and the nomadic 'savages' of the name, performs a component in a progressively unfolding drama of clash and conquest performed for the top of stakes.

A tale of warfare, politics, intrigue, deception, and survival, Savages is a highly bold, convincingly targeted novel that's most unlikely to put aside. full of schemes, counter-schemes, unexpected reversals of fortune, and brilliantly defined debts of complicated army encounters, it's, by way of any degree, a unprecedented leisure, the paintings of a author whose ambition, diversity, and sheer narrative energy have by no means been extra completely on show.

By Robin Hobb

Plague has ravaged the celebrated King's Cavalla of Gernia, decimating the ranks of either cadets and teachers. but Nevare Burvelle has made an astonishingly strong restoration, defeating his sworn nemesis whereas within the throes of the disorder and liberating himself—he believes—from the Speck magic that contaminated him. And now he's traveling domestic to Widevale, awaiting a young reunion together with his appealing fiancée, Carsina, and a shiny destiny as a commissioned officer.

But there's no haven within the bosom of his relations, for his nights are haunted through grim visions of treachery—and his days are suffering from a wierd side-effect of the plague that shames his relatives and repulses the girl of his center. and because the still-potent magic in his blood roars to lifestyles, Nevare realizes a bad fact: that the enemy who seeks to damage every thing he loves dwells possibly now not with no yet within him.

By Emily Pohl-Weary

"An completely extraordinary new younger grownup novel...The tale is quickly and beautifully instructed, and the characters are likable and believable." —Cory Doctorow, New York Times best-selling writer of Little Brother

Sometimes dwelling within the manhattan fairly Bites! Eighteen-year-old rock big name Sam Lee isn’t like different women. She’s the super-talented bass participant and songwriter for an all-girl indie band and an incurable loner. Then one evening after a live performance in important Park, she’s attacked via a "wild dog." all at once, this long-time vegetarian is yearning meat—the bloodier, the higher. Sam unearths herself with a fantastic mystery and not anyone she trusts to proportion it. And so commence the unending lies to hide up the bushy truth...When a brand new woman gang seems within the city—with claws and paws—Sam suspects there’s a connection to her personal internal beast. Trapped in a tug-of-war among her animal and human selves, compelled to choose from the man who sparks her carnal urge for food and the person who makes her suppose like a regular teenage woman, Sam has to resolve the mysteries of the werewolf global earlier than her bandmates, the media, and her mom trap as much as her.

By Christopher Stasheff

At the magical planet Gramarye, 500 years from their very own time, Rod and Gwen Gallowglass are held captive in an alternate universe--a global the place purple-skinned, fur-kilted males problem them in primitive conflict. misplaced inside of time and area, and not able to speak with the combative natives, Rod and Gwen needs to struggle for his or her freedom and survival.

By Kylie Chan

A great experience that includes chinese language gods, terrible demons, strange creatures from Asian mythology, and electrifying martial arts motion, Hell to Heaven is the second one ebook in Kylie Chan’s moment clean and interesting city delusion sequence. lovers of John Wu and different Hong Kong Kung Fu motion picture masters will thrill to the newest exploits Emma Donahoe Chen, badass spouse of the God of the Northern Heavens, who faces the awful prospect of turning all-demon and vows to struggle to the loss of life to regain her imperiled humanity. Hell to Heaven is clean and ingeniously diverse city myth that readers of Lilith Saintcrow, Liz Williams, Karen likelihood, Devon Monk, and Ilona Andrews will love.

By Brian Godawa

Epic Storytellers and a conflict of historical Cultures Brian Godawa, best-selling writer of old ancient myth, groups up with Charlie Wen, the earlier visible director of surprise Studios, to inform an action-adventure romance rooted within the historical background and non secular fact of China. Written in the course of the Watcher paradigm that used to be universal to readers of Chronicles of the Nephilim. East Eats West It’s 220 B.C. the traditional Western Empire is crumbling. In a determined bid to save lots of his throne, the Greek Seleucid king over Babylon sends his son, Antiochus, a dishonored warrior, into the mysterious land of the a long way East to catch a legendary creature that would supply him absolute energy: a dragon. Antiochus takes with him his longtime buddy, Balthazar, a member of the Magi order of Babylon, liable for either the faith and technology of the empire. yet Balthazar additionally includes with him a deadly mystery that may ruin Antiochus’ plans and plunge the area into chaos. They sail past their maps into the mysterious and uncharted japanese Orient. they're came across and escorted inland to the empire of Ch’in (now often called China), governed by means of the 1st emperor, Ch’in Shi Huang Di. The emperor is a brutal ruler and is at the fringe of madness in a mad quest to discover the elixir of immortality. Antiochus meets and falls in forbidden love with a stunning concubine of the emperor, Mei Li. yet she additionally harbors a mystery that may deliver down the mad emperor. It’s the reality of China’s religious prior that's mysteriously hooked up to the traditional Hebrews and the Tower of Babel. And there are religious principalities and powers who search to prevent all of them. those are the Watchers, who've their very own plans to rule the area. discovering and shooting a dragon is the least of Antiochus’ problems during this action-adventure conflict of cultures and battle of gods. a part of the ancient delusion sequence Chronicles of the Watchers The Dragon King is the 1st booklet of the old fable sequence Chronicles of the Watchers that charts the impression of religious principalities and powers over the process human heritage. The kingdoms of guy in carrier to the gods of the international locations at conflict. thoroughly in accordance with historic historic and mythological examine.