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Runeheart
(Hardcover)
Gino C R Marchetti; Cover design or artwork by Daniel Schmelling
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Discovery Miles 6 370
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An exiled princess teams up with the last man she thought she could
trust in the start of an immersive debut fantasy series filled with a
sizzling reluctant allies-to-lovers romance, a world to get lost in,
dangerous quests, and dragon bonds.
She is vengeance. He will be her sword.
No one in Imirath had ever seen a dragon, until five eggs long thought
fossils hatched in the presence of their young princess, Elowen Atarah.
Fearing the power his daughter would wield through her soul-bond with
the creatures, King Garrick imprisoned her for many years, desperately
trying to break the bond that united them, until a daring rescue saved
Elowen from his clutches - but left her five precious dragons at his
mercy.
Years later, Elowen is now a woman determined to free her dragons.
Having established a queendom of her own, she is ready to do whatever
is necessary to save her people from starvation and seek vengeance
against her father. Even if that means leaving the home she built for
herself. Or having to align herself with the Commander of Vareveth,
Cayden Veles, the most feared and dangerous man in all the kingdoms of
Ravaryn and her father's sworn enemy.
Cayden promises to help Elowen if she will stand with him and all of
Vareveth in the pending war against Imirath. Despite their contrasting
motives, Elowen can't ignore their undeniable attraction as together
they plot to infiltrate her father's impenetrable castle to steal back
her dragons and seek revenge on their common enemy.
The pull between Elowen and Cayden becomes impossible to resist, even
when trusting each other seems both reckless and essential. But with
the threat of war looming over them, the imminent heist will be their
most dangerous adventure yet.
He has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a
boy on his back. He has been a scholar, a warrior, a lover, and a
thief. He has been dream and dreamer. He has been a god. But "he"
is in fact nothing more than a spark of idea, a character in the
mind of Sylvia Harrison, 73, award-winning author of thirty novels
over forty years. He has played a part in most of those novels, and
in the recesses of her mind, Sylvia has conversed with him for
years. But Sylvia won't live forever, any more than any human does.
And he's trapped inside her cave of bone, her hollow of skull. When
she dies, so will he. Now Sylvia is starting a new novel, a fantasy
for adult readers, set in Thalia, the Florence-resembling imaginary
city that was the setting for a successful YA trilogy she published
decades before. Of course he's got a part in it. But he also has a
notion. He thinks he knows how he and Sylvia can step off the wheel
of mortality altogether. All he has to do is convince her.
Spensa's world has been under attack for hundreds of years. An
alien race called the Krell leads onslaught after onslaught from
the sky in a never-ending campaign to destroy humankind. Humanity's
only defense is to take to their ships and fight the enemy in the
skies. Pilots have become the heroes of what's left of the human
race. Spensa has always dreamed of being one of them; of soaring
above Earth and proving her bravery. But her fate is intertwined
with her father's - a pilot who was killed years ago when he
abruptly deserted his team, placing Spensa's chances of attending
flight school somewhere between slim and none. No one will let
Spensa forget what her father did, but she is still determined to
fly. And the Krell just made that a possibility. They've doubled
their fleet, making Spensa's world twice as dangerous . . . but
their desperation to survive might just take her skyward . . .
Praise for Brandon Sanderson's #1 New York Times Bestselling
Reckoners series: 'Another win for Sanderson . . . he's simply a
brilliant writer' Patrick Rothfuss 'Action-packed' EW.com
'Compelling . . . Sanderson uses plot twists that he teases enough
for readers to pick up on to distract from the more dramatic
reveals he has in store' AV Club
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Behooved
(Paperback)
M. Stevenson
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Discovery Miles 3 530
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A charming slow-burn romantasy featuring a duty-bound noblewoman with a chronic illness, a prince who would rather be in a library than on a throne, and a magical ride through a world of cosy enchantment.
Bianca knows her duty comes before her heart. So when the threat of war looms, she agrees to marry the neighbouring kingdom's heir. But not all royal weddings are a fairytale, and Prince Aric, Bianca's betrothed, is cold, aloof, and seems to hate her on sight. To make matters worse, on their wedding night, an assassination attempt goes awry - leaving Aric magically transformed into a horse. Bianca does what any bride in this situation would do: she mounts her new husband and rides away to safety.
Sunset returns Aric to human form, but they soon discover the assassination attempt is part of a larger plot against the throne. Worse, Bianca has been framed for Aric's murder, and she's now saddled with a husband who is a horse by day and a frustratingly attractive man by night.
As an unexpected romance begins galloping away with their hearts, Bianca and Aric must rely on each other to unravel the curse and save the throne.
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