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Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. But young Robb, of House Stark, still rules the North from...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Cast out of the nobility after her father's attempt to assassinate the high king, Kate's job as a royal courier brings her to the scene of a drake massacre where she finds Corvin, the king's son and her first love. They call her Traitor Kate. It’s a title Kate Brighton inherited from her father after he tried to assassinate the high king of Rime.
Cast out of the nobility, Kate now works for the royal courier service. Only the most skilled ride...
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1973
Description
Keeping watch over the young Arthur Pendragon as he grows, the prince and prophet Merlin Ambrosius is haunted by a vision of a magical sword--the fabled sword Caliburn, hidden for centuries. Sheathed in fire and stone, water and ice, the sword of the Emperor Maximus is destined to reveal the true High King. When Uther Pendragon is killed in battle, the time of destiny is at hand, and Arthur must claim the sword from a perilous chapel to claim his...
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1970
Description
Born the bastard son of a Welsh princess, Myridden Emrys--or as he would later be known, Merlin--leads a perilous childhood, haunted by portents and visions. But destiny has great plans for this no-man's-son, taking him from prophesying before the High King Vortigern to the crowning of Uther Pendragon, and the conception of Arthur--king for once and always
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified ]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Cyrene Strohm is a Queen's Affiliate, a high-ranking official of the court of Byern, with power and privilege to spare. She also holds dangerous secrets, the least of which is the heart of the King and magic in a world where magic no longer exists. Determined to discover what this means and how to use her newfound abilities, Cyrene sets off for the distant land of Eleysia. An island nation where Affiliates are strictly forbidden from entering. But...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Catalia "Cat" Fisa is a powerful clairvoyant known as the Kingmaker. The smart-mouthed soothsayer has no interest in her powers and would much rather fly under the radar, far from the clutches of her power-hungry mother. But when an ambitious warlord intent on bringing peace to his newly conquered realm discovers her secret and captures her, she may not have a choice... Tied to Griffin at the hip with a magic rope, Cat will do everything in her power...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
On the day of her Presenting, in front of the entire Byern Court, seventeen-year-old Cyrene Strohm's lifelong plans comes to fruition when she's chosen for one of the most prestigious positions in her homeland, an Affiliate to the Queen. Or so she thinks. When Cyrene receives a mysterious letter and an unreadable book, she finds nothing is as it seems. Thrust into a world of dangerous political intrigue and deadly magic, Cyrene's position only grows...
Author
Publisher
Amberlin
Pub. Date
©2017.
Description
What will she sacrifice to defend her king? Before she befriended a frightened young boy in the palace of Kingfountain, Ankarette Tryneowy grew up during the shattering civil war that raged between members of the Argentine family. This is the story of how the only daughter of a lawyer and a midwife became the famed Queen's Poisoner. Recruited by King Eredur's ambitious uncle, Ankarette is thrown into a world of double dealing, deception, and tangled...
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"IN A RICH, DISTINCTIVE WORLD THAT MIXES MAGIC WITH TECHNOLOGY, WHO COULD STAND AGAINST MAGES THAT CONTROL GUNPOWDER AND BULLETS? The capital has fallen... Field Marshal Tamas returns to his beloved country to find that for the first time in history, the capital city of Adro lies in the hands of a foreign invader. His son is missing, his allies are indistinguishable from his foes, and reinforcements are several weeks away. An army divided... With...
Author
Publisher
Neverwood Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
High in goblin infested mountains lies the ruins of Ter Dell, the lost stronghold of the dwarves. Evil lurks beneath layers of ice and broken stone, buried in a vault of gold, hungering for the day that man's greed would see it unearthed.That day has come.For I am Rheanon, one of the adoptive daughters of Lady Eville--and I'm trapped in a web of deceit with the King's deadly blades-enchanted beings that guard the king and hunt those with magic. Beset...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"The king and queen are dead, murdered by one who will stop at nothing to rule. But the young princess--Rosemund--has survived, spirited deep into the forest by her parents' most trusted advisor. There, she finds refuge in a small cottage and a new life, one in which she must play a role that will ensure her survival. Soldiers are combining the countryside, searching for the lost princess, and they will not rest until she is found--and executed. Rosemund's...
Author
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Sharakhai, the great city of the desert, center of commerce and culture, has been ruled from time immemorial by twelve kings--cruel, ruthless, powerful, and immortal. With their army of Silver Spears, their elite company of Blade Maidens and their holy defenders, the terrifying asirim, the Kings uphold their positions as undisputed, invincible lords of the desert. There is no hope of freedom for any under their rule. Or so it seems, until Çeda, a...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Sora can move as silently as a ghost and hurl throwing stars with lethal accuracy. Her gemina, Daemon, can win any physical fight blindfolded and with an arm tied around his back. They are apprentice warriors of the Society of Taigas--marked by the gods to be trained in magic and the fighting arts to protect the kingdom of Kichona. As their graduation approaches, Sora and Daemon look forward to proving themselves worthy of belonging in the elite...
Author
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Description
"Zachary Davriel Hillander, High King of Sacoridia, rues how much he has had to give up to lead his realm, including the freedom to live and love as he chooses. When an embassy from Eletia arrives to propose a joint venture between their realms to seek out an old ally in the north, he is dismayed to learn that the one Sacoridian they have in mind to accompany their guide is the woman he truly loves but cannot have: Green Rider Karigan G'ladheon. Karigan...
Author
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
The fifth book in The Song of the Shattered Sands series is an epic fantasy with a desert setting, filled with rich worldbuilding and pulse-pounding action. The reign of the kings of Sharakhai has been broken. The blood mage, Queen Meryam, now rules the city along with the descendants of the fabled twelve kings. In the desert, Ceda has succeeded in breaking the asirim's curse. Those twisted creatures are now free, but their freedom comes at great...
Author
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"The plans of the desert gods are coming to fruition. Meryam, the deposed queen of Qaimir, hopes to raise the buried elder god, Ashael, an event that would bring ruin to the desert. Çeda and Emre sail for their ancestral home to bring the traitor, Hamid, to justice. To their horror, they discover that the desert tribes have united under Hamid's banner. Their plan? A holy crusade to annihilate Sharakhai, a thing long sought by many in the tribes....
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"The Young Queens" is the story of a set of triplet sisters destined to fight to the death to win the crown; "The Oracle Queen" tells the story of the last queen born with the gift of sight.
These prequels to the Three Dark Crowns series, previously available as e-novellas, are finally available for fans to have and to (literally) hold. Uncover the sisters' origins, dive deep into the catastrophic reign of the Oracle Queen, and reveal layers of Fennbirn's...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Vika Andreyeva can summon the snow and turn ash into gold. Nikolai Karimov can see through walls and conjure bridges out of thin air. They are the only enchanters in Russia, and when the Ottoman Empire and the Kazakhs threaten to attack, the tsar wants a powerful enchanter by his side, and as an advisor for the prince, Pasha. He initiates the Crown's Game, a duel of magical skill, and the winner will become his Imperial Enchanter; the loser will...
Author
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Çeda, now a Blade Maiden in service to the kings of Sharakhai, trains as one of their elite warriors, gleaning secrets even as they send her on covert missions to further their rule. She knows the dark history of the asirim--that hundreds of years ago they were enslaved to the kings against their will--but when she bonds with them as a Maiden, chaining them to her, she feels their pain as if her own. They hunger for release, they demand it, but...
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