Download or read book The Fairy and The Mercenary written by Rikako Tsuji and published by Harlequin/SB Creative. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Celestia of the kingdom of Ardun has a target on her back. To hide from the courtesans who would have her killed, she takes refuge in the countryside. One day, a beautiful, wounded knight named Andreas is brought to her and they begin to live under the same roof. He saves her from danger, and over time, they fall in love. However, something sinister is brewing at the palace, and the day they part might be approaching, fast.
Download or read book Magic fairy path written by Xu Ze gang and published by Publicationsbooks. This book was released on with total page 1521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This person is the scattered fairy star in the celestial world. In addition to the immortals who are under the control of the Emperor of Heaven, they are the uncontrolled immortals. People in the celestial world collectively call them scattered immortals. These immortals either concentrate on practicing or travel around. Among them, there is no lack of superior strength, and Tianxing is one of the best.
Download or read book Mercenaries in Medieval and Renaissance Europe written by Hunt Janin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval and Renaissance Europe, mercenaries--professional soldiers who fought for money or other rewards--played violent, colorful, international roles in warfare, but they have received relatively little scholarly attention. In this book a large number of vignettes portray their activities in Western Europe over a period of nearly 900 years, from the Merovingian mercenaries of 752 through the Thirty Years' War, which ended in 1648. Intended as an introduction to the subject and drawing heavily on contemporary first-person accounts, the book creates a vivid but balanced mosaic of the many thousands of mercenaries who were hired to fight for various employers.
Download or read book written by 蚊子 and published by 露露. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The old gentleman provided help in times of need, and Xiao was very grateful." Xiao Zhan sighed gratefully, pondered a little, and hesitantly said, "Let's do this. Our Xiao family is responsible for selling these healing medicines, and 90% of the proceeds will be given to the old gentleman." The remaining 10%, haha, although it is a bit cheeky, but after all, we still need this money to buy some things. Old sir, what do you think? "
Download or read book Reckless I The Petrified Flesh written by Cornelia Funke and published by Pushkin Children's Books. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the magical world behind the Mirrors... the thrilling first instalment in the Reckless series by renowned, bestselling author Cornelia Funke. Jacob has uncovered the doorway to another world, hidden behind a mirror. It is a place of dark magic and enchanted objects, scheming dwarves and fearsome ogres, fairies born from water and men born from stone. Here, he hunts for treasure and seeks adventure in the company of Fox - a beautiful, shapeshifting girl, who guides and guards him. But now Jacob's younger brother has followed him into the mirrored world, and all that was freedom has turned to fear. Because a deadly curse has been spoken; and Jacob must risk his life to reverse it, before his brother is turned to stone forever... Revised and updated by Cornelia Funke, The Petrified Flesh is the first book in the thrilling Reckless series.
Download or read book Mercenaries in British and American Literature 1790 1830 written by Erik Simpson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830, Erik Simpson proposes the mercenary as a meeting point of psychological, national, and ideological issues that connected the severed nations of Britain and America following the American Revolution.When writers treat the figure of the mercenary in literary works, the general issues of incentive, independence, and national service become intertwined with two of the well-known social developments of the period: an increased ability of young people to choose their spouses and the shift from patronage to commercial, market-based support of authorship. While the slave, a traditional focus of transatlantic studies, troubles the rhetoric of liberty through a lack of autonomy and consent, the mercenary raises questions about liberty by embodying its excess. Simpson argues that the mercenary of popular imagination takes monstrous advantage of modern freedoms by contracting away the ostensibly natural and foundational bonds of civil society.Substan
Download or read book Drink Deep written by Chloe Neill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A strong-minded, sharp-witted heroine who will appeal to fans of Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series and Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake." (Library Journal) Clouds are brewing over Cadogan House, and Merit the vampire can't tell if this is the darkness before the dawn, or the calm before the storm. With the city itself in turmoil over paranormals and the state threatening to pass a paranormal registration act, times have never been more precarious for the vampires. If only they could lay low for a bit... Then magic rears its ugly head when Lake Michigan turns black. The mayor insists it's nothing to worry about, but Merit knows a panic is coming. She'll have to turn to friends old and new to find out who's behind this, and stop them before it's too late for both the vampires and humans.
Download or read book Fashion in the Fairy Tale Tradition written by Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a journey through the fairy-tale wardrobe, explaining how the mercurial nature of fashion has shaped and transformed the Western fairy-tale tradition. Many of fairy tale’s most iconic images are items of dress: the glass slippers, the red capes, the gowns shining like the sun, and the red shoes. The material cultures from which these items have been conjured reveal the histories of patronage, political intrigue, class privilege, and sexual politics behind the most famous fairy tales. The book not only reveals the sartorial truths behind Cinderella’s lost slippers, but reveals the networks of female power woven into fairy tale itself.
Download or read book The Fairy s Sickness written by Arcto Viscida and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-26 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the forest, no one can hear you .... Renier Wymark is a well-seasoned mercenary Captain, but when he gets a suspicious missive from a wealthy noble family requesting the service of the Sable Sentinel Mercenary Company, the offer of riches seems too good to pass up despite any risk that he and his soldiers might face getting there. But as they find themselves deeper and deeper in the Darkridge Forest, Renier starts to wonder who, or what truly sent for them, and what waits for them in the center of the thicket. Is the promise of riches enough for Reiner to involve himself in a world he swore never to face? And who will pay the consequences if he does?
Download or read book The Coming of the Fairies written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Land of Enchantria written by Bill Dispoto and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the land of Enchantria, there is an ancient prophecy handed down by the imperial wizard eons ago and passed down from generation to generation. The prophecy states that, during an age of darkness in a year of a constant moon, to a mortal woman who is queen and a mortal man who is king will be born an enchanted boy child. This child, himself destined one day to be king, will have the power to bring light to all creatures great and small. He will right the wrongs done in the name of evil, he will restore the land to its earthly form, and he will forever drive the darkness from the hearts and souls of all beings. Six beings, all born on the same day but to different lives, have their futures inexplicably and inexorably connected to serve the prophecy. Two princesses, one the golden-haired daughter of a good king and queen, and the other the raven-haired daughter of a witch-queen bent on revenge and power. Two half-bloods, both exiled from the tribes of their parents, find each other and form a lifetime bond of friendship and alliance, pledging to protect the child princess. And, finally, two mortal enemies born in the deepest reaches of the dark forest, one half-animal/half-man with only death and suffering in its heart, and the other a member of the gifted tribe, whose abilities will mean the balance of power between the powers of light and darkness. As they grow, their lives are all set upon the same pathto locate and obtain a magical device of unspeakable power, the diamond scepter. It is said that the scepter can make a weak enchanter strong and make a strong enchanter invincible, but legend has it that the scepter also controls the mythical Iron Army, an undefeatable army of indestructible soldiers. Both sides want the scepterthe agents of the light want it returned to its rightful place in the Crystal City, but the agents of the darkness want its power to destroy the light and rule of Enchantria.
Download or read book Shadow Jewel The Heart of Elovia written by V.N. Black and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The past unites us, the future divides us’ The Empire of Elovia finds itself on the brink of a deep abyss, in danger of descending into yet another war. The only one who can save Elovia is the Demon girl who possesses the Ignorance stone. But the price will be high, for the Ignorance stone will bring not only peace, but great sorrow. A bitter battle breaks out between the Demons, the Diamondites and the Fairies, all seeking to influence fate in their favour. And thus good friends turn into enemies, heroes turn into murderers, and happy families become adversaries. Yet the strong bonds of the past bind the protagonists together to form an unbreakably bonded entity from which none of them can escape. Driven by the shadows of the past they recognise that they are not as free in their decision-making as they had thought.
Download or read book The Princess and the Mercenary written by Marilyn Pappano and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tyler Ramsey's mission was to follow the trail ofMontebello's missing crown prince to Montana,not to guard a pampered princess. But whenPrincess Anna Sebastiani insisted on joining thesearch for her brother, Tyler became her reluctantbodyguard. Keeping track of the regal virginwasn't nearly as challenging as fighting theexplosive and unexpected attraction betweenthem. When the fierce Montana winter left themsnowbound, the result seemed inevitable. But therugged mercenary's sworn duty was to protectthe princess—even from himself….
Download or read book Gate of War written by Zhang Cheng and published by Publicationsbooks. This book was released on with total page 1097 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qingzhushan Mountain is the eastern branch of the southern section of Tianxing Mountain, with complex geological structure, with strange peaks, deep pools and ancient caves and pale rocks. It belongs to a humid climate zone, where there is no heat in summer, little cold in winter, a lot of rainfall and high humidity, and it is often shrouded in clouds, with lush forests and bamboos all over the mountains and green seasons
Download or read book Snakewood written by Adrian Selby and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic fantasy like no other, Adrian Selby's debut takes an unblinking look at the price we pay for our pasts, the art of war and the people who make it their business. Enter a violent world of revenge and bloody combat with characters you'll never forget. They called them Kailen's Twenty, a legendary band of ruthless mercenaries who gave no quarter. Living only by the code of steel, blood and coin, and aided by fightbrews that gave them the edge in battle, whoever met their price won. Now, broken up and seemingly forgotten, they are being hunted down, one by one. Drawn from multiple accounts compiled by a scholar investigating the legendary group's demise, who is also the son of one of the Twenty, Snakewood is fantasy at its most inventive and rewarding.
Download or read book Alien Mercenary s Bride written by Mina Carter and published by Mina Carter. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stowing away on an alien ship? Idiotic. Stowing away on the Warborne's ship? Suicidal. Marika Ingrassia is desperate. To escape another wedding arranged by her father, she runs. Between a homicidal groom and a ship full of trained killers, she'll take her chances with the mercenaries, thank you very much. Only things don't go quite to plan. Her idea to force them to help her at gunpoint seemed a stroke of brilliance until she's on board and facing down the sexiest mercenary she'd ever seen. She can't think straight, never mind shoot straight. She's doomed for a long walk out of a short airlock until Mr. tall, muscled, and growly agrees to help her escape her father's clutches... by marrying her. Just one problem. This time she wants the wedding to be for real... She's the prettiest thing he's ever seen. And everything a killer like him doesn't deserve. Skinny has been a mercenary most of his life. One of the legendary Warborne, he's killed more men than he's had hot dinners and he's damn good at it. When he finds a scared human female, he doesn't expect his reaction to her, or for her to clock him over the head with a pipe. Unpleasantness aside, when he realizes she needs help, he's all ears. And everything else she needs. Up to and including his hand in marriage to protect her... No plan survives first contact with the enemy. Between an assassination attempt and his past catching up with them... can Skinny convince Marika he's the alien for her, or will he lose her forever? Keywords: alien mate romance, alien romance, space books for adults, sci fi, sci fi books, sci fi romance, sci fi adventure, sci fi series, space marine, alien warrior, alien assassins
Download or read book How Thony Stopped a War and Fixed a Friendship written by Mangala McNamara and published by Rising Dragon Books. This book was released on 2024-07-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Runaway Prince Thony and his friends face an army of zombies created and controlled by an Evil Wizard and a vengeful Dark-elf who threaten the sanctity of the Fairy Wood. They must use pranks to save not only their world, but all the worlds in the universe. ********** Back Blurb: Thony’s Quest just gets more and more messed up. Forget about finding a princess and going home to save Aldyrwald. Now he and Amanita (who’s turned out to also be a runaway princess) are stuck trying to save all the worlds that are connected by the Fairy Wood from an army of zombies controlled by an Evil Wizard and a vengeful Dark-elf. For allies they have the undersized mercenary Dae Goldeneyes, the unicorn Twinklestar, a pack of street-kids, and a handful of grown-ups who think they know what they’re doing (but who all got themselves captured right off). And their only real resource is… their own skill at playing pranks… This epic fantasy explores the mysterious connections between Magick and Economics, Empire and Ethics, Friendship and Family… and of course, PRANKS! Want to start at the beginning? Book One of the Prankster Prince: Thony and the Much-Anticipated Adventure is available in print and eBook at all fine online retailers! ******** Teaser: “EEEEeeeek!” Amanita hid quickly to avoid being seen by someone running by – then peeked out as a sergeant and captain in Raven-soldier colors came out of a door down the hall. “You realize you’ve roused the entire garrison, Captain Fayorn,” the sergeant growled. “I can’t imagine His Sorcerousness is going to be particularly forgiving that you disturbed their rest because of a mouse.” “A rat,” Captain Fayorn corrected with a shudder as they stopped in front of another door. “Or so I thought at first. It wasn’t real. Someone was trying to rattle me.” The sergeant grunted. “I don’t suppose you were able to apprehend the culprit?” Fayorn flushed. “I most certainly did.” The sergeant entered the room and emerged moments later with a ‘rat’ in each of his massive paws. Thony and Dae, held in place by the scruffs of their collars. Thony looked chagrined; Dae, indignant. “Children?” Sergeant Sterevor said in amusement. “Go back to bed, sir. I’ll take care of this little rodent problem.” Captain Fayorn glared back at him, then stalked past and went back in his room, slamming the door behind him. The sergeant chuckled, letting go of his captives, but turning them so they both had to face him. “So, you’re the scoundrels who disturbed Captain Fayorn’s beauty sleep.” “Yup!” Dae said proudly. Thony groaned. “Hunh.” Sergeant Sterevor shooed the pair of them back down the corridor. They passed within inches of the darkened doorway where Amanita stood frozen.
