Download or read book The Pale Sorceress written by Mangala McNamara and published by Rising Dragon Books. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damien sacrificed himself to save his ice-bound city from pirates and sorcery. Now he must endure captivity and learn the sorcery he lacks in order to win free and get back to his wife, his unborn child, his friends… and his Realm that is still facing an unknown threat. ********** Back Blurb: King Damien sacrificed himself to save his ice-bound city from pirates and sorcery. Now he is captive to the ungentle whims of the evil sorceress, Azella the Unpitying. Her magickal ability exceeds his own. Damien’s only hope to win free and go home to his soul-bonded Queen and unborn child – and his still-threatened Realm to which he is also Bound – is to persuade Azella to teach him what she knows. Azella is willing to teach him… for a price. The question is whether Damien can give her what she wants – without following her down the path of Evil Wizardry… Like his grandfather before him… This epic fantasy explores the complex interactions of Magick and Philosophy, Means and Ends, and… CHESS… Want to start at the beginning? Book One of the Chronicles of Ilseador: The Rebel Duchess is available in print and eBook at all fine online retailers! ******** Teaser: “You’ll do.” A smile that Damien was all too familiar with curled Azella’s lips. “You’ll more than do, in fact. My sources hadn’t told me how handsome you are. I shall quite enjoy this, I think.” Damien tried not to roll his eyes. “This beard...” She stroked his chin. “I assume you usually keep it a bit more trim. I usually prefer my bedmates to be cleanshaven. But then, they are usually too young to grow a proper beard. Perhaps I shall make an exception.” “Perhaps you are making an assumption, lady sorceress,” Damien said dryly. “No,” she said calmly. “You are no innocent child, Damien. You know full well the Power that is raised through sex. You will be my Apprentice. You will share my bed. And you will do whatever else I require of you.” He looked back at Azella just as calmly. “I have sworn to my wife that I would touch no other woman in that way. And since I also know that the Power raised is proportional to the joy found in the doing, it won’t do you much good to compel me.” Those blue-grey eyes sparkled. It wasn’t – quite – anger. Nor amusement. It was... challenge. Damien suspected that the sorceress rarely found something she wanted that she could not immediately bend to her will. He suspected that was why she had wanted him in the first place. “Oh, I won’t have to force you to make love to me, Damien. You’ll soon be begging to do so.”

Download or read book The Shadow Sorceress written by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shadow Sorceress, the fourth book in New York Times bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s epic fantasy series the Spellsong Cycle begins a new story arc for a new cycle of tales starring a new heroine who must face a series of deadly political and military threats. Secca, a young sorceress, is thrust into a position of power and responsibility before her training is complete. She must command all of her magical resources to suppress internal conflict in a neighboring province and face a new drumming magic that threatens the balance of power in the world. All in a world that views women as little more than than wives, mistresses or mothers. Secca will prove that she is so much more. The Spellsong Cycle The Soprano Sorceress The Spellsong War Darksong Rising The Shadow Sorceress Shadowsinger Other series by this author: The Imager Portfolio The Saga of Recluce The Corean Chronicles The Ghost Books The Ecolitan Matter At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book The Sorceress and the Cygnet written by Patricia A. McKillip and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Bards of Bone Plain. The Wayfolk are a dark-haired, wandering people who shun doors and walls. Corleu is Wayfolk, albeit with hair the color of the moon. But when his companions and his own true love become trapped in an unearthly swamp beyond the reach of time, he dares to cross a forbidden and forbidding threshold, to enter a dark house that should not exist, to meet with a tinker who is also a king, and to embark on a quest for the one long-lost treasure that may free his people: the heart of the Cygnet. The Cygnet is a figure of myth and legend, like the Gold King, the Blind Lady, the Dancer, and the Warlock. Once Corleu had thought these beings to live only in the stars and in children's rhymes. Now he knows that they are as real as himself, and that it is the Cygnet that holds the others at bay. To find the heart, he must walk paths he never imagined: apprentice himself to a beautiful sorceress of uncertain motives, brave the Fire Bear in its lair, catch the Blood Fox by its shadow, and elude a valiant woman warrior whose destiny is strangely linked to his own. More, Corleu must also wrestle with his own conscience. For if he fails in his quest, those he loves are lost forever to timeless limbo. But if he claims the heart, then the Cygnet falls and so do all who live...

Download or read book The Sorceress of Savon written by T. Andersen and published by Tricia Lynette Andersen. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassandra is found by her grandfather, the sorcerer Malicar, after her parents are brutally murdered in one of the bloody raids that plague the kingdom of Savon. After being presented to King Thomas she is raised in the palace alongside two boys - Thomas's son, Matthew and Victor, the young man chosen to be Matthew's commander of the army. However her life in the royal palace comes at a price - she is vowed into a life of servitude as Malicar's apprentice and Matthew's future personal advisor, forfeiting the dream of ever having a husband and children to call her own. But as the three of them mature into adults, childhood curiosities turn to jealousy and burning desire. Cassandra finds herself caught between the two men and forced to make a decision - to throw away her vows for the life she dreamt about with a man she does not love or to stay shackled to the promises she made as a child to be with the man she wants with her heart, body and soul but cannot have.

Download or read book Sidonia the Sorceress written by Wilhelm Meinhold and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sorcerer s Edge written by David Hair and published by Jo Fletcher Books. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After all they've suffered, rebel sorcerer Raythe Vyre and his fortune-seekers are still empty-handed, but they've found real treasure: peace. Deep inside the Ice wastes, Raythe's people stumbled upon Rath Argentium, the legendary Aldar city, and the long-lost Tangato people. After fighting through betrayal, treachery and powerful magic, they forged a hard-won treaty with the Tangato and their extraordinary queen, Shiazar. Now they've put aside their dreams of wealth and revenge and embraced something better: a life outside the tyrannical Bolgravian Empire. But the Bolgravian Empire never gives up. The empire hasn't forgotten Raythe Vyre, and his enemies know where he is. Guided by Toran Zorne, the implacable imperial assassin, they are coming to claim Rath Argentium for themselves. Raythe and Shiazar know all too well that courage and cunning won't be enough this time: they are outnumbered, out-gunned and out of time. Faced with total annihilation, it's up to Raythe to find an edge . . .

Download or read book Separated Soul written by Shaene Ragan and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Feline, the High Sorcerer, tries to locate the spirit of his sister sorceress, Porpoise, he is shocked to discover that her soul has been split in two. Half of her lives as an undead dark witch on the northern moors, while the other is a sorceress who rises and sets with the light of Phoebe Artemis. To unite the two halves of his old friend, Feline must himself take on two identities and carefully weave a web of influence. First, he becomes a cunning cat and charms his way into the dark witch's trust. He also becomes a sorcery tutor, claiming to be of the vanished Ellf Nation, to whisper in the ear of the Moon's foster child. Just as he begins to think his plan will succeed, his task becomes more difficult when the two sides of Porpoise take opposite positions on the lives of the Romanized Celts and the Saxons after the Romans abandon the area. With both the soul of his friend and the lives of countless mortals in the mix, he must tread carefully to avoid a catastrophe. To make matters worse, an extraterrestrial parapsychologist begins to stalk him from the astral plane, making him realize that his actions may have consequences far beyond their little island. Separated Soul is grand in scale and rich in unique characters. Drawing from pre-Celtic mythology and history, it ties the mundane and fantastical together into a complex and compelling narrative of operatic proportions.

Download or read book The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater written by Alyssa Quint and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish Book Award Finalist: “Turns the fascinating life of Avrom Goldfaden into a multi-dimensional history of the Yiddish theater’s formative years.” —Jeffery Veidinger, author of Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire In this book, Alyssa Quint focuses on the early years of the modern Yiddish theater, from roughly 1876 to 1883, through the works of one of its best-known and most colorful figures, Avrom Goldfaden. Goldfaden (né Goldenfaden, 1840-1908) was one of the first playwrights to stage a commercially viable Yiddish-language theater, first in Romania and then in Russia. Goldfaden’s work was rapidly disseminated in print and his plays were performed frequently for Jewish audiences. Sholem Aleichem considered him as a forger of a new language that “breathed the European spirit into our old jargon.” Quint uses Goldfaden’s theatrical works as a way to understand the social life of Jewish theater in Imperial Russia. Through a study of his libretti, she looks at the experiences of Russian Jewish actors, male and female, to explore connections between culture as artistic production and culture in the sense of broader social structures. Quint explores how Jewish actors who played Goldfaden’s work on stage absorbed the theater into their everyday lives. Goldfaden’s theater gives a rich view into the conduct, ideology, religion, and politics of Jews during an important moment in the history of late Imperial Russia.

Download or read book Poems written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lost Lands of Witch World written by Andre Norton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary, seminal second Witch World trilogy, together in a single edition for the first time, Lost Lands of Witch World In the 1960s Andre Norton's career took a fateful and important turn. Having written adventure science fiction for almost thirty years, she turned to something new: science-fantasy, with Witch World. This unique world of sorceresses and the many others who fight such adversaries as the Kolder, the Hounds of Alizon and other threats, has proven to be Miss Norton's most beloved and popular creation. Three Against the Witch World, Warlock of the Witch World, and Sorceress of the Witch World, the fourth, fifth, and sixth novels in the series, have long been recognized as novels that comprise the core of the series, along with the first three novels. Today, decades after their first publication, these novels of adventure, excitement, and daring remain as fresh and original as when they first appeared. For the first time they are now available in a single volume for new readers of all ages to discover, and for fans to rediscover in an attractive, durable new format. Lost Lands of Witch World includes a long introduction by Mercedes Lackey. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book The Fall of Taridawil written by Mangala McNamara and published by Rising Dragon Books. This book was released on 2024-05-27 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Karana won her shield… Before she spent a year alone in the forest… The Evil Wizard Henig destroyed Taridawil… …and the younger child of Duke Randall was sent – all unwilling – to Tallspire to become a page and earn his shield. Meet Kefen and Ivan as children… Discover the story behind how Ivan fought half their class… Watch how they figure out what friendship means… And learn what really happened to bond them so closely together in this touching tale of friendship, resilience, and caring. ****************** The Fall of Taridawil Story Collection includes: - Turns of a Page – how Kefen and Ivan met, how Ivan fought half their class (and why), and how they ended up becoming so close. - In A Masterful View, we peek into Master Felerico’s viewpoint on the boys - Of Pride & Princes takes a look at Henig’s original threat to King Theolore - We get into Queen Marlerite’s head in Sorrows of a Queen - And the collection finishes up with an ‘outside’ view of the whole situation from… Rufous in All on the Same Page ****************** Teaser: The small, dark-haired boy – no, ducal-prince, dammit, and that was how Kefen was going to keep his chin up – swallowed hard and began to turn back into the stall for a last measure of privacy before he had to go out there and show the world how a Saralath handled things. But a movement to his left caught his eye. Another boy was standing in the aisle of the stables, watching him silently. The boy was tall and golden-haired, with eyes that were almost too blue to be real. Eyes that were puzzled as he met Kefen’s own dark ones. After a moment of looking at each other, Kefen realized the other boy was dressed as he himself was. So. Another page. And tall as he was, something about the other child nevertheless suggested to Kefen that he was also new here. He waited, but the other boy said nothing. And when Kefen lifted an arm to rub his tears off on his sleeve and it broke their gaze, the other boy turned and began walking away. Curious, and drawn for reasons he couldn’t have explained, Kefen followed him.

Download or read book Fifty Years of English Song The earlier poets The Blackwood coterie and earlier Scottish poets The poets of young Ireland written by Henry Fitz Randolph and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Sorcerer s Treason written by Sarah Zettel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-06-16 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy-roman.

Download or read book Frostflower and Thorn written by Phyllis Ann Karr and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sorceress Frostflower could bring a babe from seed to term in the course of a winter's afternoon. The swordswoman Thorn could strew a field with corpses in a moment's battle rage. Outcasts, both of them. Hunted by the farmer-priests who ruled the wasteland that once had been a world. Then Thorn in her folly got pregnant. Flower, in her folly, wanted the child. And together, foolishly, they set out to survive...

Download or read book The Works written by Landor and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of Walter Savage Landor written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Imaginary conversations Citation and examination of W Shakespeare The Pentameron Pericles and Aspasia Minor prose pieces Poems Hellenics Gebir Acts and scenes Miscellaneous written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: