Bøger af David Van Dyke Stewart

Salvation lies beyond dreams...Newlywed Helga wants nothing more than a life of peace and bliss; instead she finds herself with a husband dying of an unknown illness and no way to save him. When a mysterious old volva comes to town offering a cure, Helga is forced to travel beyond all she knows to the boundaries of the prim, the border of reality, to barter with fay beings for a substance known only as the water of awakening.Helga soon finds that the journey is more perilous than anyone had thought, with danger coming not just from wolves and men, but from wizards, dragons, and twisted creatures beyond imagining. Surrounded by strange magic, but aided by a group of uncanny talking ravens, Helga begins not only to gain the skills necessary to survive her ordeal, but begins to awaken to her true self... and a power long dormant.A new High Fantasy book from David V. Stewart with plenty of unexpected elements, The Water of Awakening is sure to please fans of classic adventure and heroic fantasy stories.

Complete Edition - Now includes all three Needle Ash books (Knives of Darkness, Twilight's Memory, and Shadows Rise) in a single affordable volume.Warrior-prince Michael Harthino has been summarily discharged from his prominent position of high captain of the Artalland army. Seething from the injustice of his disgrace, he travels home with the unwelcome company of Sharona, a headstrong battlemage formerly under his command. Together, they begin to unravel the plot that has left him a powerless second-son of the kingdom - a plot which they find threatens the kingdom itself.At a loss for options, Michael is forced to step into an arena as deadly as battle: that of politics. Michael, however, is a soldier, not a politician. While his father negotiates a fragile peace with the alluring Mage-Queen Allanrae of rival nation Ferralla, Michael struggles to protect his family from sabotage and assassination. Under the jealous guard of Sharona, his self-appointed protector, he finds he must himself evade threats from without and from within. He also finds that there may be parties at play from beyond normal reality - from a dark, malleable realm that runs parallel to his own.Beyond Dreams, Michael's redemption waits.