Download or read book Toll the Hounds written by Steven Erikson and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling, harrowing novel of war, intrigue and dark, uncontrollable magic, Toll the Hounds is the new chapter in Erikson's monumental series - epic fantasy at its most imaginative and storytelling at its most exciting. In Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that love and death shall arrive dancing. It is summer and the heat is oppressive, but for the small round man in the faded red waistcoat, discomfiture is not just because of the sun. All is not well. Dire portents plague his nights and haunt the city streets like fiends of shadow. Assassins skulk in alleyways, but the quarry has turned and the hunters become the hunted. Hidden hands pluck the strings of tyranny like a fell chorus. While the bards sing their tragic tales, somewhere in the distance can be heard the baying of Hounds...And in the distant city of Black Coral, where rules Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, ancient crimes awaken, intent on revenge. It seems Love and Death are indeed about to arrive...hand in hand, dancing. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Download or read book Master of Hounds written by R. A. Steffan and published by Master of Hounds. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which is more important-loyalty to one's country, or loyalty to one's lover?Despite decades spent in service to the Alyrion Empire, Caius Oppita has betrayed both Decian and the imperial family he purports to serve, all within the space of a few weeks.With his honor already in tatters, he faces a new, unanswerable dilemma. If he allows Decian to become a figurehead for those who would see the current regime fall, the man he loves will be in unutterable danger. If he doesn't, the empire his family has served for generations will fall under the rule of either a sadistic schemer or a drunken madman.Regardless, civil war is coming.All Decian ever wanted was a quiet life of obscurity. All Caius ever wanted was to perform his duty faithfully.But what does his duty entail, when all of the options are equally terrible?* * *Master of Hounds: Book 3 is the final installment in an M/M epic fantasy trilogy by USA Today bestseller R. A. Steffan. It is set in the world of The Eburosi Chronicles, but stands alone. The book contains adult content.Other series set in this world:The Complete Horse Mistress Collection (2016 Rainbow Award winner)The Complete Lion Mistress Collection (2019 Rainbow Award winner)The Complete Dragon Mistress CollectionMistress of War (Coming in late 2022)

Download or read book Master of Hounds Book 2 written by R. A. Steffan and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man cannot take on an empire.Or rather, he can try-but it should come as no surprise when he's crushed by the vast powers arrayed against him. Caius Oppita knows this, but after what he's seen, it suits him better to go down fighting than to crawl on his hands and knees.The empire he's served faithfully since he was a boy now wants him dead, and the lover he thought he could trust has betrayed him in the worst possible way. Maybe Caius can't win the fight he's about to undertake, but he'll damn well drag the imperial family's corruption into the light of day if it kills him.And if the battle takes him to the same underbelly of the capital where his former lover fled after ripping Caius' world apart? Well, it won't be the first time this hardened general has engaged in combat on two fronts.Not all enemies are what they seem.Sometimes the course of a war can turn on the smallest thing.* * *Master of Hounds: Book 2 is the second installment in an M/M epic fantasy trilogy by USA Today bestseller R. A. Steffan. It is set in the world of The Eburosi Chronicles, but stands alone. The book contains adult content.Other completed series set in this world:The Complete Horse Mistress Collection (2016 Rainbow Award winner)The Complete Lion Mistress Collection (2019 Rainbow Award winner)The Complete Dragon Mistress Collection

Download or read book Toll The Hounds written by Steven Erikson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 1299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Fantasy cliches are dodged or given new twists; the narrative teems with clever invention . . . the writing is excellent' SFX ___ In Darujhistan, the saying goes that Love and Death shall arrive together, dancing... It is summer and the heat is oppressive, yet the discomfiture of the small rotund man in the faded red waistcoat is not entirely due to the sun. Dire portents plague his nights and haunt the city's streets like fiends of shadow. Assassins skulk in alleyways but it seems the hunters have become the hunted. Strangers have arrived, and while the bards sing their tragic tales, somewhere in the distance can be heard the baying of hounds. All is palpably not well. And in Black Coral too something is afoot. Memories of ancient crimes surface, clamouring for revenge and Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, has come to right an ancient and terrible wrong. And so it would seem that Love and Death are indeed about to make their entrance... This is epic fantasy at its most imaginative, storytelling at its most exciting. ___ What readers are saying: ***** 'Epic action and breathless tension' ***** 'Dark and compelling . . . it was really hard to put down' ***** 'Innovative, unexpected . . . filled with laugh out loud humour, but also terribly poignant'

Download or read book Dogs of War written by Adrian Tchaikovsky and published by Dogs of War. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics expecially designed to instil fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, he's part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Compeche, Mexico. As a genitically engineered Bioform, Rex is a deadly weapon in a dirty war. But all he wants to be is a Good Dog. And to do that he must do exactly what Master says and kill a lot of enemies. But who, exactlym, ar the enemies? What happens when Master is tried as a war criminal? What rights does the Geneva Convention grant weapons? Do Rex and his fellow Bioforms even have a right to exist? And what happens when Rex slips his leash?

Download or read book Silver s Threads Book 2 written by Penny Reilly and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slender Silver Birch whispered secrets to a flock of noisy sparrows, arrowing like darts into the depths of ancient twisted limbs; the last leaves clinging stubbornly, shaken loose circling, drifting down to join their sibling on the earth to begin the journey to mulch-hood. It was cold but the sounds of nature were undiminished; a ravens caw, a kookaburras contagious chuckle and the sweet, melodic call of a thrush echoed across the garden to the silent group sitting beneath the canopy of branches, soaking up the suns last warmth before winters final grip held the earth in stasis. Flora, Samantha, Maeve and the group who had assembled around them were tired and confused, not knowing if the outcome of their ritual, woven with the intention to locate Sybille on Samhain eve had been successful and knowing that much rode on it. They had all witnessed things they could not put name to and so much more had to their frustration, been hidden from sight as they stood backs turned to the events unfolding in the circle. Who was the small creature, Maeve saw watching her with such cold intensity? Where did Bethan go in that brief moment she vanished? Who are the enigmatic Dark Fae, waiting in the wings for any of them to make just one small slip? dare you walk the between, in the places unseen will you dare to engage with your shade will you walk, will you stray senses lost on the way with the mists calling home will you wander alone dare you walk the between unafraid the story continues after the Samhain Rite

Download or read book Steps To English Composition Junior Essays Book 2 written by H. Martin and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this little book of simple essays is to show schoolboys how they can wite essays on familiar subjects by carefully reading the model essays. They can also learn how to express ideas and arrange them properly In this book, 198 model essays

Download or read book The Hounds of the Morrigan written by Pat O'Shea and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a ten-year-old boy finds an old book of magic in a bookshop in Ireland, the forces of good and evil gather to do battle over it.

Download or read book The King s Hounds written by Martin Jensen and published by Amazon Crossing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1018 and the war with England is finally over, but the unified kingdom ruled by Cnut of Denmark is far from peaceful. Halfdan has lost everything to the war but his sense of humor. Once a proud nobleman, now he wanders the country aimlessly powered only by his considerable charm and some petty theft. When he finds an unlikely ally in Winston, a bookish former monk, the two set out together for Oxford, the seat of the new king. The pair's arrival in court coincides with news of a murder, and Cnut has an idea only a king could get away with: Why not enlist Halfdan and Winston ? the Danish womanizer and the upright Saxon intellectual ? to defuse a politically explosive situation? They?re given just two days to solve the murder and they set off to uncover the truth, on the order of the king and with the reluctant assistance of the agitated townspeople.

Download or read book Master of Crows written by Grace Draven and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an isolated fortress, the Master of Crows battles an ancient god for possession of his soul. Renegade and heretic, he dreams of ways to defeat the god and destroy the priesthood who would execute him. Sent by her masters to betray him, a woman comes who possesses a weapon he can use to triumph over both...but only at the ultimate sacrifice. A tale of love and allegiance. --------------- This fantasy romance was previously published with a different cover in 2009 by Amber Quill Press. This is the second edition.

Download or read book The Horse Mistress Book 1 written by R. A. Steffan and published by . This book was released on 2021-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My secret could save my people.It will also destroy my life.My name is Carivel. I was born female, but I've been secretly living as a boy in my adoptive village of Draebard, doing a job the elders insist could never be done by a woman. My life is complicated enough already, so the last thing I needed was to fall for not one, but two unattainable men-a fierce warrior and a reluctant wolf-shifter with a horrific past. Now, with the Alyrion Empire is poised to invade our lands, I must choose whether to keep my secret or reveal it? not only to the men I love, but also to the powerful female ruler whose army could help protect Draebard during the coming war.Either way, strife is coming to our island.Win or lose, things are about to change irrevocably for the three of us.* * *The Horse Mistress by USA Today bestseller R. A. Steffan is a 2016 Rainbow Award winning LGBT fantasy romance series.

Download or read book A Flight of Fancy The Daughters of Bainbridge House Book 2 written by Laurie Alice Eakes and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassandra Bainbridge has twice set aside her scholarly pursuits--once for the London Season and once for her wedding preparations. Love seems a wonderful alternative to study, until disaster strikes. When an accident brings an end to her betrothal, she heads for the country to recover from both her injuries and her broken heart. There she pursues her love for ballooning and envisions a future for herself as a daring aeronaut. But when her former fiancé slips back into her life, will she have to choose between him and her dream? Filled with the mystique of London society and the charming beauty of the English countryside, A Flight of Fancy explores what it means to find the true source of happiness and love amid the distractions of life. Readers will love the next installment in this rousing Regency series from accomplished author Laurie Alice Eakes.

Download or read book Moon Burned written by H. D. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the Ring.Shift into wolf form.Fight to the deathI'm just trying to survive, and that's a full-time job in the world of wolf shifters, where the strong prey on the weak.Good thing weak is one thing I am not.When a good deed gets me in trouble, and a certain dangerous wolf takes a special interest in me, the world as I know it is turned upside down.What does Ryker want from me, anyway? I'm a slave, and he's the master's right hand.Nothing good could possibly come from this.The trouble is, Ryker is irresistibly sexy, and when he's near me, my right mind disappears with my good sense.His touch is like fire - it might end up burning me beyond repair.Believe it or not, that is actually the least of my problems.

Download or read book The Horse Mistress written by R. A. Steffan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carivel, Andoc, and Senovo have defied convention by declaring their love for each other. Carivel is a pariah-a female who has been quietly living as a man. Senovo has been hiding his shape-shifting curse, believing the wolf inside him to be a vicious killer. When their secrets are finally revealed to the village elders, they fear dragging Andoc down with them. Next in line to become Draebard's tribal chieftain, Andoc risks his position by continuing with such an unorthodox relationship. When Senovo and Carivel are captured by the enemy, though-to save their lives, he'll have to risk everything. Suspenseful and steamy, The Horse Mistress: Book 2 tells the story of forbidden love and loyalty against a rich backdrop of magic, history, and impending war. Author's note: This book contains descriptions of violence and graphic sex, including sex between men, sex with multiple partners (MMF), and elements of fully consensual BDSM within an established, loving relationship. Additionally, it deals with issues of gender identity and gender fluidity. It is intended for a mature audience.

Download or read book Hell Hounds Don t Heel written by Kim McDougall and published by Valkyrie Bestiary. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critter wrangler rule 7: Some monsters just have to die. Someone is plotting to put all gargoyles in jail...or six feet in the ground. For decades gargoyles have patrolled the night in Montreal Ward. They are dubbed Guardians by the humans and fae who live on the fringes of society, those who survive in neighborhoods the police don't care about. But when a Guardian is accused of murder, their reputation blackens. Mason promised to return from France with the one weapon capable of killing the formidable witch who was reborn from the bloodstone, but no one has heard from him in months. Now Polina gathers forces. Without Mason or the Guardians, Kyra has no backup as she tries to solve a murder and face off against new and terrifying monsters...all while caring for her growing menagerie of extraordinary critters. A new adventure in the Inbetween, where magic is the only rule of law. Hell Hounds Don't Heel is the third book in the Valkyrie Bestiary Series.

Download or read book Waging War written by Faith Gibson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's a lone Hound. She's a woman on the run. Both are trying to find their way home.After the loss of his wife, Gryphon shifter Warryck Lazlo has spent the last twenty-four years alone. War has come to a turning point in his life and must decide whether to return to his family and their motorcycle club, The Hounds of Zeus, or find another path as a solitary Gryphon. When he sets out on a cross-country ride with his twin, Maveryck, War is determined to find his new purpose. While sitting at a bar, they overhear that a woman is missing, and War decides to help find her.Kerrigan O'Shea's life wasn't exactly easy, but it was hers. Until it wasn't. Escaping from an abusive boyfriend, Kerrigan's car breaks down, and reluctantly, she accepts the offer of a kind man. But Kerrigan's life goes from one kind of hell to another, and she wonders if she'll ever find her way out.With the help of the Hounds of Zeus and his daughter, Lucy, War finds the missing woman - his woman - as well as his purpose and his way back to his family and the MC. The only uncertainty in his future is whether Kerrigan wants the same thing.Waging War is Book 1 in the exciting new Hounds of Zeus MC series, a spin-off from The Stone Society. The Hounds are Gryphon shifters who help rid the world of evil like The Ministry - the cult who single-handedly brought the world to its knees some thirty years ago. Set in a future post-apocalyptic world, The Hounds of Zeus bring you stories of the good guys who find love while taking down the bad guys.