Epic fantasy in the tradition of Guy Gavriel Kay and Jacqueline Carey. “A world of large-scale epic fantasy... This is a rare find and not to be missed.” New York Times bestselling author Barb Hendee. In the heart of the singing desert, the people are fading from the world. Mothers bear few live children, the warriors and wardens are hard-pressed to protect those who remain, and the vash’ai—the great cats who have called the people kithren for as long as there have been stories—bond with fewer humans each year. High above, the Sun Dragon sings a song of life and love while far below, the Earth Dragon slumbers as she has since the beginning of time. Her sleep is fitful, and from the darkness of her dreams come whispers of war… and death. Sulema is a newly minted warrior of the people and a true Ja'Akari—a daughter of the unforgiving desert. When a mysterious young man appears in her home of Aish Kalumm, she learns that the Dragon King is dying in distant Atualon. As the king fades, so does the magic that sings the Earth Dragon to sleep. There are those who wish to keep the dragon trapped in endless slumber. Others would tap her power to claim it for their own. And there are those who would have her wake, so they might laugh as the world burns.
—Thomas Campion ( 1567-1620 ) The Dragon Tree Being pertinent to the appreciation of the contents of the following essays , the author here includes a brief word on the Dragon Tree or Dragontree , which is a massive plant that grows in ...
Arrows hissed down upon Jian's forces like a rain of vipers, and pikes lowered as they were met with a high, thick wall of shields and iron that would seem to the untrained eye as impenetrable as the scaled hide of a dragon.
In this book, Jian begins a brutal and bloody climb up the ranks of the Daechen as the Emperor's long plans near fruition.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts begins a new trilogy of adventure, romance, and magick in The Awakening.
By the time the fourth thorn was pressed against his skin, the first had begun to burn. They had started at his wrist, and by the time they reached his shoulder, Jian was twitching uncontrollably and had bitten his tongue so that he was ...
The Dragons' Legacy
There will be losses and sorrows, betrayal and bloodshed. But through it, Breen Siobhan Kelly will take the next step on the journey to becoming all that she was born to be.
Her grandfather, the dark god Odran, has been defeated in his attempt to rule over Talamh, and over Breen—for now. With the enemy cast out and the portal sealed, this is a time to rest and to prepare.
Rune, an orphaned young man raised among strangers, tries to save the kingdom from a dragon that is burning the countryside and, along the way, learns that he is a kinsman of Beowulf.
Must the Quest end as it began?