Historisk fantasy

Officer Edward Clavell is the turnkey aboard a naval ship named the Baliant - a vessel with the sole purpose of protecting the coasts of Graelind. After discovering a clue to the whereabouts of a powerful diamond he believes could end the war against piracy, Edward abandons his principles in search of it.A journey which sees him meet two of the most unlikely of friends, together becoming acquainted with some of Graelind's most peculiar folk. A journey of discovery that truly expands the limits of what they ever thought possible.Embark with Edward, Peter and Obi on their epic adventure through Graelind, as they battle foes both mortal and supernatural in this historical fantasy. The ultimate goal ... a prize worth far more than gold.Will Edward and his companions succeed, or have they stepped too far into the darker realms of adventure, curiosity and revenge?

1444. Three spies. Two clashing empires. One deadly game few survive. Game of Thrones meets Hunger Games in Medieval Transylvania. Journey to the Ottoman Empire's dark heart in this second novel of the Curse of The Dracula Brothers series. In "Throne of Blood," stakes get higher, danger gets closer, and someone's time runs out.Three Transylvanian spies denying their powers strive to survive behind enemy lines. But between harem intrigue, deadly secrets, and bad luck, the end is near. They rely on each other to survive, but when fate turns against them, their dreaded magic may be their last hope.In Throne of Blood, dark medieval history blends with Transylvanian folklore into a gripping adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat. If stories of undaunted underdogs fighting terrifying odds turn you on, "Throne of Blood" is your kind of book.Join Vlad the Impaler confronting his destiny. Read "Throne of Blood" to fall under the spell of a magical world where intrigue, magic, and courage collide.

“Se det i øjnene, Vanadis … Du er mosens træl nu. Troede du, at du kunne nøjes med at tage, hvad der passede dig, og glemme resten? Det kan du ikke. Det hele følger med, også de behov, der gør dig farlig for mennesker.”Karen skal vænne sig til en ny hverdag i skoven med Daniel og ellepigerne. Mosen giver intet fra sig uden at få noget igen, og prisen for Karens nye liv udfordrer både hendes menneskelighed og hendes livssyn. Men det er ikke kun mosen, der lurer, for Daniel har en hemmelighed. En hemmelighed, der går tusind år tilbage, og som truer med at brænde skoven ned …Tågespind-serien er historisk romance i særklasse. En kærlighedserklæring til det danske sprog, naturen og folketroen. Elleskudt er seriens andet bind.Anmelderne siger:"Man er fuldstændig og komplet tryllebundet under sin læsning og glemmer alt omkring sig … Forfatteren har overgået sig selv på alle måder i denne unikke og originale bog."★★★★★★– You.look.like.a.book"Jeg er vild med blandingen af paranormal romance, 1700-tallets Danmark, overtro og kærlighed. Jeg glæder mig meget til at læse mere fra Signe Fahls hånd. Man bliver aldrig skuffet!"– Eva Lucia reviews & literature

"There was nothing like the buzz of poison and murder in her veins." -SorschaAs the Joubert Sisters navigate a world of impending war without their full magic, the Prince of Bone fights for his life-torn between the land of the living and the land of the dead-only to discover the Court of Achlys means more to him than he ever knew.Agatha untangles the prophecy that set their realm aflame.Winnie and the Druids prepare for war.Seleste faces physical setbacks in a foreign land.And Sorscha? Ah, Sorscha and her sass discover secrets in the catacombs of Araignée.

A murdered ballerina...a family of vengeful vampires...and a glittering coronation in Imperial Russia.Moscow in the springtime is an unhealthy place for a fugitive Grand Duke like Vasily Nikolaevich Romanov. But Molly Dark is learning to trust the ex-vampire prince, who hasn't betrayed her quite as often as she expected.Besides, there are plenty of good reasons to visit Russia this year.There's the missing ballerina whose unquiet ghost demands justice.There's the new tsar's spectacular coronation, which every royal monster in Europe is scheduled to attend.And there's the irresistible opportunity to get the secret police off Grand Duke Vasily's trail once and for all.It could even go well... if Vasily wasn't bent on stealing back at least some of his lost fortune out from under the noses of his family, who in addition to being bloodthirsty vampires, are all completely bonkers.Never mind about the resentful ex-fiancee he forgot to mention...

Wander into the mystical, wolf-inhabited forests that inspired the Brothers Grimm. Here, an unwelcoming town seals for itself an eternal fate - a curse that only a mysterious outsider can lift.

Queen Charlotte, the Queen of Falconia and her husband King Philip have just had triplets. It should be a time of celebration, but old enemies have reappeared and two of the babies are magically interfered with. Thirteen years later the enemies are back, and the two children fall into a coma from which no normal cure is known. Thus begins a quest of unlikely allies journeying across half the world to find the Chalice of the Dawn; the only object in the world that can save them, together with a very strange potion.This is an exciting tale full of strange creatures, dark magic, armies of dwarfs and men, battles on land and adventure at sea. Will the unlikely allies be able to find the Chalice and return with it to Falconia and save the children? And if so, will the potion work?

My father cleared his throat. He began to say, "They took her," but he never got past the first word, and had to start again. He said finally, "The Dreamies took her. She went with the Dreamies." Sooz was an extraordinary little girl. She grew into an extraordinary woman, with a gift given to her by a unicorn, after a battle with a griffin. The gift is more precious than she could have imagined but sets her on a dangerous path to rescue the sister she never knew she had from a land to which humans never go. But Sooz is no ordinary human. She may not be human at all. The one thing this changeling child does know is love, and courage. Combining the Hugo award-winning novelette Two Hearts with brand new story Sooz, The Way Home returns us to the world of The Last Unicorn. Peter S. Beagle brings the same humanity, poignancy and wisdom that makes his writing so magical.

Shamanens hemmelighed 2 – Ravnens Fjer af Kristine Camille Sommer er andet bind i den historiske fantasy-trilogi, Shamanens Hemmelighed. En fantastisk fortælling sat i den danske stenalder. Arkæolog Andreas Wadskjær, der har speciale i stenalderen, har været konsulent på bøgerne og hjulpet med at få detaljerne så præcise som muligt.Danmark – Stenalderen: 4500 år før vor tidsregning.Shamanens søn Andrak har startet et nyt liv med Milika. Hun bliver gravid og alt skulle være godt nu. Men skyggerne fra Andraks fortid vil ikke lade ham få fred og suger hans kræfter. En mystisk ravn begynder at følge ham, og Andrak samler en fjer op i håbet om at få noget af dens kraft.Sådan går det ikke. I stedet må Milika finde styrke for dem begge to, da de igen bliver tvunget til at flygte, nu med to små børn. De mystiske fremmede, der overfalder og hærger bopladser, tvinger Andrak og Milika til at vende tilbage til Helligpladsen med Yogil og Silikan. Det sted Andrak havde svoret, han aldrig ville vende tilbage til igen…Uddrag fra Ravnens Fjer:”Her er noget, der ikke skal være herinde. Noget der føles… Ondt!””Ondt?””Ja. Noget der ikke vil jer det godt. Det kommer herovre fra.”Bedstemor går hen mod soveskindet.”Der er noget her, der ikke er godt.”Hun ser sig omkring. Løfter skindet, kigger op i loftet.”Der er noget deropppe, tror jeg. Men jeg kan ikke nå. Vil du lige se, hvad der er?””Hvad skal jeg se efter?” spørger Andrak, og ved udmærket godt, hvad det er.

ONE GIRL. ONE HELLHOUND. ONE CHANCE TO SAVE THE WORLD.A map. A riddle. And her first job in the city. Maddy Dune possesses everything she needs to search for Tan, her soulmate and missing heir to the throne. Everything, until the dragon arrives and shreds her plans to tatters.Taking control of the city's police, Tan's scaly southern cousin butts in, forcing Maddy's adoptive family to scarper off to a rural town where ancient magic rules. And where an inexperienced but hard-working half-hellhound enchanter has zero chance of tracking down her misplaced prince.Maddy's new backwater home-in-exile has nothing. No magical wards, no magic amplifying fog, no friends in low places, no allies in high positions. And surprise, the townspeople hate her enchanter father and loathe her foreign-born mother. Things can't get worse until they do. It's almost as if someone planned to stop her from finding Tan. Plotted to make her and her family suffer. Schemed to poison all joy while destroying everything and everyone Maddy loves.Which is absurd. Maddy isn't important enough to have an enemy like that. Besides, no one is that clever. That powerful. That connected. Not even a dragon could arrange all that. It would take a cabal, and everyone knows dragons work alone.Don't they?Maddy Dune and the Martyr's Crown is the third volume in the Fogbound Realm gas lamp fantasy series by Patrick O'Sullivan. If you like your fantasy more Edwardian than Victorian, your magic more alchemy than steam, and your supernatural neighbors more folkloric than shifty you're in the right neighborhood.The adventure continues. Explore the unexpected world of the Fogbound Realm and Maddy Dune and the Martyr's Crown today!

Birch is the daughter of the Seer and the clan chief. Aesc is the Shaman's son. A perfect pairing.While the entire clan is away on the mammoth hunt, Aesc is entrusted to tend the Holy Fire. But the newlyweds fall asleep in each others arms. The Holy Fire - life of their people - dies.In disgrace, they are ordered to seek the Sky Gods' forgiveness and restore the flame.On the farthest tip of the Northern Lands lies a lone mountain on an island, home to dragons.Are these the Sky Gods Birch and Aesc seek? And can they recover the Holy Fire in time to save their clan?

Rosa is a woman who grew up in the bush of southern Queensland. At school she discovered she could sing and it became her abiding passion. While this book tells about her life and career, she couldn't do it on her own, so her story is as much about the people she loved and who loved her back, and looked out for her.Her determination and talent brings stardom, but at a cost. Those blessed with an aura of success, like any of us, are plagued by loneliness, illness and loss. But life for Rosa and the people she loves and works with is never dull; every day seems to bring a new challenge to be embraced.'He'd been drinking at the Regatta ...and next thing, he skolled a glass, leapt up on the parapet, did a handstand slowly, and hand walked the whole length of the balcony. A hand misplaced by an inch and he was dead...'Riding Scrimple in the valley shortly after sunrise felt the only place where she belonged, the only place she could sing whenever or whatever she wanted ... as a little girl she discovered that singing crushed some of the awful dreams.'It was like she had to be a vocal dancer or athlete. Keep to the beat; keep in tune! How was it done? Surely it must be better than what was going on? She had this aural vision of these people around her groaning or moaning.'All she could do was suspend judgement, her world and any other place or person, for this minute, hour, day ... She stood on the little terrace, her eyes moving from him to the view of a village, hillsides, and the blues, ochres, sages of sky and landscape.'The way you sang that long last song was more than brilliant; it said something to me about the power of communication through music I've never known.''Your memory or your truth, he said, can change depending on how you are living the moment of your recollection''He's head over heels. Like the old song, 'say yes to Mr Brown!'''They were tough times back then, girlie.''It was their true retreat, almost magical in its brilliance and remoteness ...''No, not without you .... we must stay together...''She laughed and said [the One Teacher School] ... is like an exclusive prep school except there are no fees ...''... the front desk left last week ... we're on our own ...'

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New York City in 1847 is a boiling stew of ethnic gangs, foul living conditions, and runaway crime. Police captain Alvord Rawn effectively meets violence with violence, until one bloody night he goes too far. Forced to resign, Alvord agrees to help a wealthy society woman locate her missing son, the rising artist Charles Deas, who has been painting and exploring the frontier areas west of St. Louis. Deas has fallen under the spell of the mysterious Count Abendroth, a practitioner of mesmerism. Under the count's sinister occult guidance, Deas's paintings have grown darker and more intense, verging on madness. When Alvord arrives in St. Louis, he finds that Abendroth is much more than a charlatan, and that he is massing his dark powers for nefarious ends. Abendroth is unwilling to let Deas leave without a fight, which is just fine with former police captain Alvord Rawn, because fighting is what he does best. As each side gathers soldiers for a final showdown, author Edward Swanson blends exacting period detail, old time storytelling, and nonstop action into a satisfying climax of good versus evil.

FATE CAN BE CHANGED.CURSES CAN BE BROKEN.In a shabby house in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil. But when her scheming mistress discovers her scullion is hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to win over the royal court.Determined to seize this chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of power-hungry nobility, desperate kings, holy men and seers, where the lines between magic, science and fraud blur. With the pyres of the Inquisition burning, she must use every bit of her wit and resilience to win fame and hide the truth of her ancestry - even if that means enlisting the help of an embittered immortal familiar, whose own secrets could cost her everything.From Sunday Times bestselling author comes a bewitching novel, brimming with peril in a world where a woman's ambition can prove deadly.PRAISE FOR LEIGH BARDUGO''S BOOKS''Impossible to put down'' - Stephen King'A pacey read with electric prose' Independent'Crackling dialogue and sumptuous description. Bardugo dives deep into this world... if you're not careful, it'll steal all your time' New York Times'A master of fantasy' Huffington Post'Sultry, sweeping, picturesque' USA Today

Tauche ein in ein spannendes und mystisches Abenteuer inmitten des indischen Freiheitskampfes!Indien, 1857: Die indische Bevölkerung beginnt sich gegen die britische Besatzungsherrschaft zu wehren. John H. Sterling, Lieutenant beim 97th Regiment of Foot, wird mit seiner Einheit nach Indien versetzt, um die Aufstände niederzuschlagen. Gerade erst angekommen, erhält er bereits eindringliche und mysteriöse Warnungen. Vor Mataji, einer jungen Inderin, von der die Dorfbewohner sagen, sie könne mit Tieren sprechen, und vor einem Geist, der mordend durch die umliegenden Dörfer streifen soll. Allen Warnungen zum Trotz setzt sich John für die junge Frau ein und bekommt bald die Konsequenzen zu spüren. Als er gerade zaghaft beginnt, sich in der Fremde zurechtzufinden, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse und er findet sich plötzlich auf einer Reise quer durch Indien wieder, um einen uralten Bann zu brechen.Gelingt es ihm, könnte er Frieden nach Indien bringen.Gelingt es ihm nicht, könnte er etwas noch Schlimmeres auslösen als den Krieg, in dem er sich bereits befindet ¿