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When you must dwell in the citadel of your enemies, do you join them? Depart toward exile and death? Or raze their dark tower to the ground?
Gael tries to ignore the significance of his actions. Managing supplies for a warlord's arsenal, the cursed mage purposefully evades the fact that he's enabling the destruction of his former people. But when he discovers the precious metal needed to craft the weapons is being stolen from under his nose, he resolves...
2) Blood Silver
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In a mythical Ireland that never was-an isle of turf and gorse-grown hillsides under a sky swept by mare's tails-mortal villages perch all unknowing beside enchanted knolls. Beneath them dwell the cruel and capricious faie folk.
Tahaern, a faie warrior by birth but not in spirit, eschews his vicious origins and hopes never to encounter his faie kin again.
Loving the bright world outside the faie deeps, he serves a mortal village as healer. Simple...
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Something is very wrong in Hantida.Reavers comb the streets and squares of the river city by night, crashing gauntleted fists on a residence gate or a workshop door, and taking . . . a child, a grandmother, or some sleeper who thought himself safe.Always the reavers emerge from the imperial citadel at the city's heart and return to it before daybreak with their victim-just one.Gael and Keir, newly arrived in Hantida on a quest for healing, confront...
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Fantasy mixed with history-bright, ancient, and vivid. Three novels. Caught in Amber When young Fae awakens in a locked and deserted castle, she remembers nothing. Who she is, where she comes from, none of it.A mythic tale of family and betrayal told with all the twists and moments of sheer joy that J.M. Ney-Grimm brings to epic fantasy.Blood Silver In a mythical Ireland that never was, mortal villages perch all unknowing beside enchanted knolls....
5) Star-drake
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Gefnen-troll-herald and hound for Koschey the Deathless-hunts life across the moors of the far north.
Not deer, not pheasant, not meat for the table. His master eats choicer fruits. When the piercing scent of youth tingles his senses, Gefnen focuses his chase. The prey-a boy-lacks guardians strong enough to best a troll. Swift triumph awaits.
But other seekers tilt the chances of this game. Spirit of storm, poignant memories of a sea-prince, and...
6) Hunting Wild
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Young Remeya-fosterling and maid-in-waiting to King Xavo's sister-worships the old and forbidden horned god alongside the princess.
A worship made taboo half a millennium ago. Performed still in secret by a few. Quietly tolerated by the king.
Until madness took him, there beside the stone well on the grassy hillside of the castle's outer bailey.
As the king's mind unravels into violence, no one near him remains safe, not even his best beloved....
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The warriors of Torbellai brought back a prize in the night, and young Paitra wants to see it. Even hidden away in the armory, the artifact changed the whole mood of their mountain citadel from dread foreboding to hope. And Paitra's people need hope to turn the tide in their long war against the troll horde.
Might this small triumph presage a mightier victory?
But the warlord hid the fighters' plunder for good reason. Forged by trolls and radiating...
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Once protected. Once beloved. Until a blood blade brutalizes his sire... Young Caelan relishes the carefree days and friendships of boyhood despite his palsied limbs. He loves his aunt, the Lady Agace, who mothered him from infancy, and trusts his father, Lord Jekis, ruler of Castle Balazoron and proud to name Caelan as his heir. But when a cursed sword enters his father's possession, eroding Lord Jekis' sanity and prompting him to evil, Caelan's...
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Two friends. Two opinions. One dilemma.
On fabled Navarys-the Atlantis of the North-lands-Liliyah studies energea as all thirteen-year-olds do, devoting her mornings to mastering the music that controls her magic. Afternoons, she hobnobs with the artisan crafters and shopkeepers who built the island city-state into the trade capital of the world.
Her friend Mago faces struggles unsuspected by carefree Liliyah. His father, a renowned inventor, succumbs...
10) Perilous Chance
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If only Mama were well. If only Papa were . . . not like this. Clary needs a miracle, but wonders rarely step forth to solve life's problems.While her mama lies wearily abed and her papa spends the day . . . elsewhere, Clary struggles to look after her younger sister and their baby brother. And longs for more than making do. If only.Then, one spring morning, Clary and Elspeth visit the old bramble-grown quarry to pick wild cabbage leaves. Hidden within...
11) Troll-magic
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What if Beauty faces not only her angry Beast and his curse, but a curse threatening every mage alive?
As a bespelled north-bear, Prince Kellor fights confused rage and wracking pain. Any curse possesses loopholes, but his requires his childhood friend to put her head in the noose for him.
Elle lost track of Kellor long ago and now longs to play flute in the city. But her father insists she forget her musical ambition and marry a local lad. Interrupting...
12) A Knot of Trolls
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North-lands spellcasters who reach too boldly for power transform into trolls-grotesque villains wielding a potent magic and destined for madness.
Spanning the North-lands history, from ancient times to the pastoral present, A Knot of Trolls features seven such evildoers. Seven trolls and the ordinary youths called by chance or by destiny to take a stand.
"The Troll's Belt" stars motherless Brys Arnsson, challenged as much by his own deceit as by...
13) Sarvet & Livli
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When Sarvet's world hems her in, she pushes back. Her daughter, Livli, does likewise. The Kaunis-clan Onmibus, Sarvet & Livli, presents both their transcendent stories.SARVET'S WANDERYAR Running away leads right back home-or does it?Sarvet walks with a grinding limp, and her mountain culture keeps girls close to home. Worse, her mother emphasizes all the things Sarvet can't do. No matter how gutsy her spirit or bold her defiance, staying put means...
14) Devouring Light
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Mischievous Mercurio guards the planet Mercury-his sacred charge-with quirky devotion. He loves the oddball chunk of rock, with its illusion of retrograde motion and its out-of-sync orbit and spin.
Almost as much as he loves playing pranks.
But when Earth's guardian Gaia bids Mercurio to organize a circus act for Sol's birthday celebration, the joke's on him.
While Mercurio wangles his way around the captious refusals of his would-be stilt-walkers...
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A lost birthright and unending agony.
On a whim, the rainbow's child falls to earth, where a cruel adversary takes advantage of her innocence. Bereft of her thunder-swept heavens, she dwindles. The sky calls to her, but she cannot answer. This transcendent short story of J.M. Ney-Grimm's troll-ridden North-lands explores how inner freedom creates outer opportunities.
Earth trumps heaven until ancient music plays.
(This edition of Rainbow's Lodestone...
16) Serpent's Foe
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In the legendary duat - the mystical passage where the sun god Ra travels from west to east in the night, so that he rises again in the dawning - a lioness of ancient Egypt lies caged.Once she stalked the duat by Ra's side, carrying his light in her eyes and battling the monsters that assailed them.Now, tormented by confusion and her own fury, she longs to regain the unique powers which - inexplicably - elude her in captivity.Even her own name slides...
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Ancient, cold, and perilous.
Its truth forgotten in the mists of time, the old bridge harbors a lethal secret. Neither marble statues awakened for battle nor an ancient roadbed grown hungry, something darker and more primal haunts the stones and the wild river below.
Kimmer knows the stories, but she doesn't know why the crumbling span feels so fraught with menace. Her way home lies across the ruin. Dare she take it? Or will horror from the lost...
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Half the key to his escape beckons from cold solitude, the other half from hottest battle... Coehlin, a merchant-mage and sometime scholar, pursues the ordinary goal of recovering his fortune after the wars-with snatches of arcane reading on the side. All that changes when he follows his curiosity to a haunted circle of ground. Wielding philosophy and magic where he shouldn't, Coehlin metamorphoses into a monster trapped in a cursed maze. As he labors...
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He would be king one day, and called as king to be wise for his people. But wisdom-and kindness-no longer come to him.Brychan, princess in a corner of a Wales that never was, requires a unicorn's horn to mend what is broken within him.The ancient fables speak of unicorn miracles, but if she finds the magical beast of fable, will the powers of his horn prove to be living truth? Or lying legend?About the Author J.M. Ney-Grimm lives with her husband...
20) The Kite Climber
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An army poised for battle. A hamlet of innocent villagers in the wrong place at the wrong time. A young kite climber who seizes a ridiculous chance... The troll-lord's army abducts young Andraia and forces her to serve as a kite climber-a girl light and nimble enough to climb the tethers of the great war kites, and clever enough to relay the report from each scout stationed aloft. But when Andraia sees her home village sitting squarely before the...
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