Download or read book The Masked Queen s Lament written by Dylan Madeley and published by Dylan Madeley. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Has this been one lifelong and bitter lesson, of what little love can accomplish?" She asked the mask of her father. Derek, Master and defender of his people, rides with Chandra toward a friendly city in the aftermath of a victory. They will have no time to celebrate as Derek suddenly finds himself up against a foe he can't kill with a sword. Having delivered her friend and ally to a healer, Chandra contends with more than just waiting in dread: she will be faced with a part of her personal history that she never knew and the promise of a place to belong after her exile from Kensrik. But can she trust it? And they will have so little time to regroup. Alathea, masked ruler of an expanding empire, still hungers to recreate the world in her image. Dissatisfied with the delays and failures of her minions, she intends to personally oversee the final victory over her most hated foe, the "witch", Crown Princess Chandra Kenderley. Whether they battle enemies from without or within, an ensemble cast faces the fight of their lives on every part of the Continent and its inland sea. No one but Alathea has the full picture of what she's set in motion, and whether they have any chance of stopping her, nothing will ever be the same. The Masked Queen's Lament is the third book of the Gift-Knight trilogy.
Download or read book The Fate of Lenn written by Dylan Madeley and published by Dylan Madeley. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like a book already written, turn a page forward or back, read a line or a page, yet all the words in that book exist at once, unchanging; is this how you see it? Like fate? Do we fall no matter what I do?" Future generations will mythologize Duke Lenn Wancyek, but he is a person like any other. He feels hope, worry, loss, pain, and the weight of a kingdom on his shoulders. When his responsibilities place him in a catastrophic situation from which he may not escape, his values will resonate through his actions more thoroughly than any speech he could ever make. You will meet everyone who looks to him and you will see their struggles which run concurrent with his: a friend and adviser who wishes to steer him right; three musicians who think they have landed the greatest job in the kingdom; a gardener who does so much yet asks so little; a woman who works to free her people. The list goes on, but time grows short. You will meet the man who becomes the legend. You will know the fate of Lenn. The Fate of Lenn is a standalone volume which complements Prince Ewald the Brave and The Redemption of Jarek. Cover by Jenn St-Onge.
Download or read book The Queen of Sinister written by Mark Chadbourn and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new Dark Age has fallen across Britain. With the sudden return of magic, our modern, technological society has crumbled. Cities lie in ruins, communications are limited. Gods and monsters walk the land. In this new time, myth and legend has become reality; nothing is quite as it seems. The plague came without warning. Nothing could stop its progress: not medicines, not prayer. The first sign of the disease is black spots at the base of the fingers; an agonizing death quickly follows. But this is no ordinary disease... Caitlin Shepherd, a lowly GP, is allowed to cross the veil into the mystical Celtic Otherworld in search of a cure; her search takes her on a quest to the end of a land of dreams and nightmares to petition the gods. Caitlin is humanity's last hope, but she carries a terrible burden: a consciousness shattered into five distinct personalities... and one of them may not be human. The Queen of Sinister is the latest installment in Mark Chadbourn’s brilliant new sequence: exciting, evocative, terrifying, and awe-inspiring.
Download or read book Alathea Goddess and Empress written by Dylan Madeley and published by Dylan Madeley. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She despised her father’s world. Why couldn’t sorcery be true? Would that world not be better?" Alathea was raised to rule, but the benevolent and deranged forces that hope to prepare her for the throne may create a monster. She's torn between her father's reign of empty order through terror and violence, and a magical path that could be completely illusory. She can't live one exclusive of the other, so she lives both. Her father is bent on protecting his daughter from the same fanatics who killed her mother, but far too often his desire for revenge takes him away from her. His yearning to raise a strong and steadfast heir compromises what little time they spend together. Her tutor intends to help her be better than her father, more sensible and knowledgeable, in control of her own story and the narrative of the empire just as her mother had been. But he isn't raising her alone and can't predict how his teachings will be used. Her nurse subtly coaxes her toward a path of faith and enlightenment according to the nurse's secret masters, believing that Alathea can be saved and in turn save the empire. But the Seers have grim plans that they would never reveal to their minion. This tragic story touches on loss, the insatiable hunger for control, the way people live stories and narratives, the innocence and danger of dreams, the follies of love, the deep hatred and rage dwelling within people, and the dangers of using conquest to strive for peace. Embattled by all the forces hoping to shape her to their whim, Alathea takes a piece of everything they give her and becomes something never before seen in the land. Goddess. Empress. Monster.
Download or read book The Gift Knight s Quest written by Dylan Madeley and published by Dylan Madeley. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chandra had yet to fathom why Jonnecht could not have lived and ruled for many long years, or why it was so urgent that she ascend immediately." Chandra never asked to rule Kensrik, but fate took a strange course. Known as a usurper and sorceress by most and traumatised by all that has transpired, she is forced to make use of the few loyal allies she has in order to hold together her restless empire. In an attempt to identify and defeat the conspirators who inadvertently landed her in power, Chandra risks putting the lives of many in mortal danger, as well as her own. Derek is an aimless wanderer - the youngest in a lineage that has long fallen from nobility. He finds himself summoned by tradition to serve a family historically considered his bitter enemy. As he journeys down the same path a fateful ancestor once travelled, he struggles with personal demons and begins to reconsider his loyalty to the mission. Duke Lenn found one true cause in love and it cost him everything. His legacy shaped the present in which Chandra and Derek find themselves. Now their choice will shape the future of Kensrik... The Gift-Knight's Quest is set in a new and vividly imagined world, written with delicate prose that will allow the reader to explore with their imagination. The author was inspired during the composition of this novel by the likes of Michael Moorcock, J. G. Ballard and Roger Zelazny, but doesn't claim to be any of them; he hoped to imagine something different. This book may appeal to fans of fantasy and historical fiction. This is the first book of The Gift-Knight Trilogy, and continues with The Crown Princess' Voyage.
Download or read book Writing Renaissance Queens written by Lisa Hopkins and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines writing both by and about Renaissance women rulers. It offers detailed analyses of poems, letters, and other writings by both Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots, and situates these firmly within the context of other literary figurings of Renaissance queens and queenship. It looks at a range of texts, ranging from the polemical (and largely ephemeral) treatises on the questions of female rule which were prompted by the sudden explosion of women rulers, to works by Shakespeare, Milton, and Elizabeth Cary, as well as the anonymous Arden of Faversham. The book as a whole thus explores both how Renaissance queens wrote themselves and how they were written by others.
Download or read book Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses written by Agnes Strickland and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain by Agnes Strickland Author of Lives of the Queens of England written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain written by Agnes Strickland and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain By Agnes Strickland and Her Sister Elizabeth written by Agnes STRICKLAND and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses written by Agnes Strickland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 5 (1854) of this pioneering work covers Mary Stuart's reign from the birth of James VI to her abdication.
Download or read book Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette Queen of France and Navarre written by Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An inquiry historical and critical into the evidence against Mary Queen of Scots And an examination of the histories of Dr Robertson and Mr Hume with respect to that evidence The third edition with additions and a postscript By William Tytler written by William TYTLER (Scottish Historian.) and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lives of the Queens of England written by Agnes Strickland and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lives of the Queens England Abridged edition written by Agnes STRICKLAND and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest written by Agnes Strickland and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Queen of the Ring written by Jeff Leen and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Mildred Burke, the longest reigning champion of female wrestling, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Kings of Cocaine. In this in-depth account, journalist Jeff Leen pulls back the curtain on a forgotten era when a petite midwesterner used her beauty and brawn to dominate America’s most masculine sport. At only five feet two, Mildred Burke was an unlikely candidate for the ring. A waitress barely scraping by on Depression-era tips, she saw her way out when she attended her first wrestling match. When women were still struggling for equality with men, Burke regularly fought—and beat—male wrestlers. Rippling with muscle and dripping with diamonds, she walked the fine line between pin-up beauty and hardened brawler. An unforgettable slice of Americana, The Queen of the Ring captures the golden age of wrestling, when one gritty, glamorous woman rose through the ranks to take her place in athletic history. “Jeff Leen has made a fabulous contribution to the sports-history canon. The Queen of the Ring is a marvelous evocation of an era, and a riveting portrait of a one-of-a-kind American moll.” —Sally Jenkins, author of The Real All Americans
