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A troll-mage rains death upon the land from his citadel in the sky. Who-if anyone-can defeat him? Despite the oracle's prophecy, few believe the beggar's son might be the people's champion. A magical plague infests the villages, the cities, and the lonely manors. Will the realm descend into ruin before a cure is found? Or could wizened, old Eliya convince the stricken that something improbable might save them all? Three ducal brothers fight for the...
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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...
3) 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...
4) Winter Glory
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In the cold, forested North-lands-redolent with the aroma of pine, shrouded in snow, and prowled by ice tigers and trolls-Ivvar seeks only to meet his newborn great granddaughter.Someone else has the same plan.Traversing the wilderness toward the infant's home camp, Ivvar must face the woman he once cherished and an ancient scourge of the chilly woodlands in a complicated dance of love and death.Ivvar's second chance at happiness-and his life-hang...
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With the hot breath and snapping jaws of the hounds too close behind, he runs . . . Beran creates magical marvels at his forge. Obsessed with his art, he ignores the people of his household and town. When a corrupt and jealous rival falsely accuses the smith of a dangerous crime-and makes it stick-Beran lacks allies. Turned over to a violent religious sect for execution, Beran refuses to go tamely, but the manhunt on his heels makes escape unlikely....
6) Livli's Gift
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Livli struggles with a secret she keeps from everyone, even her closest friends, and she must solve the problem at its heart before she's discovered.
She's certain the answer lies in a fragment of folklore and magic half-remembered from her childhood. Almost certain.
She wouldn't need forgotten magic if only the men and women of her secluded mountain culture dwelt together. But the women-and Livli-inhabit their sister-lodge atop its lofty bluff,...
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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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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...
9) 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...
10) 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...
11) 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...
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...
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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...
14) 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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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...
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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...
17) Titan Invictus
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What if you fail to wake from dream's beguiling beauty? Exhausted but fulfilled by the labor of primordial creation, a god of the ancient world lies sleeping. When the legions of an aggressive empire march to conquer his river valley, burning villages and salting fields, the river people beg their god to awaken and lend them his strength. But slumber's thrall holds him fast. Unless the dreaming titan wins free to take up his daylight calling, his...
18) 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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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...
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