Bøger af Todd Scott Moffett

After being threatened by assassins, slavers, and magical forces that seek to invade their minds, Adlin and Adelina, the banished prince and princess of Palatia, near their goal of returning home from the world within the Well, but they must confront a final surprising pair of foes who may destroy them. Meanwhile, their traitorous brother Belin struggles with his sanity when he is captured by the Eolians, and their usurping uncle Dunolt begins his war to unite all of the kingdoms under his rule. Will Adlin and Adelina have a homeland to return to even if they do escape the Well?

Adlin and Adelina, the exiled prince and princess of Palatia, have returned home from the world within the Well only to find that their usurping uncle Dunolt has launched his war to reunite the kingdoms under his rule. Dunolt has destroyed the capital city of Adinsford with the power of the Gealstone, and he threatens the capital of Norinsland with the same fate. Adlin and Adelina have brought with them a new Gealstone, fashioned in the heart of Well, but they are separated on their return. Can they reunite to save their country?

The Crisis of the Four Worlds is at hand! Will the universe survive the cataclysm? Prince Adlin and Princess Adelina face their final tests! Adlin must fight against the dual threats of his uncle Dunolt and his double from the World within the Well, while Adelina must defeat the Brotherhood, the Eolian cabal bent on remaking all of existence. Will they live long enough to save their world?

Grand in its scope and vision, The Gealstone Saga follows the adventures of a twin brother and sister, Prince Adlin and Princess Adelina, as they struggle through three worlds to reclaim the kingdom of Palatia from their usurping uncle, Dunolt, who has stolen from them their birthright, the powerful magic gem, the Gealstone. Along the way they are aided by their guardian uncle Saulin but betrayed by their younger brother Belin, who has his own designs on the throne of Palatia. In Gealstone Identity, the first book of the saga, Adlin and Adelina, caught trying to steal the Gealstone from Dunolt, are banished from Palatia through the Well, a hole between the worlds that deposits them in a land completely alien and yet increasingly familiar as they journey to its center in hopes of finding the means to return home. They meet the helpful Treeguards, the dangerous Rockguards, and a runaway who may or may not be from their home world-and who may or may not be trying to kill them.

Prince Adlin now leads the armies of Palatia in the wars started by his usurping uncle, but a new Gealstone has appeared from the world within the Well, wielded by Adlin's own double, the dangerous king who threatens to remake Palatia in the ruined image of his own domain. Princess Adelina, with the Eolian chief Ennon, has been banished to the Fourth World-the land of the dead-and there faces the Brotherhood, the secret society of magicians who seek the Lifesource, a font of potentially fatal power. But the forces already unleashed have set in motion a cataclysm that will destroy all of the worlds. Can Adlin and Adelina fight from opposite ends of the universe to save it?

Dunolt, the usurping emperor of Palatia, has vanished, and the powerful, magical Gealstone has vanished with him. Now, perhaps, the rightful rulers of Palatia, Prince Adlin and Princess Adelina, can end the war that Dunolt has started. But Adlin summons an ancient source of evil that threatens to destroy him, and Adelina races one step ahead of the assassins trying to kill her. Meanwhile, the armies that have risen against Dunolt fight among themselves over their own source of magic. Who will pay the price to wield the power that will save their kingdoms-or bring them to ruin?

Banished from his adopted country, agonizing over the loss of his friends and the death of his beloved, the young hero of The Fool's Blade must return to the land of his birth-the land that cast him out when he was a newborn. An unexpected encounter with a young and powerful witch sends him on a journey that will ultimately see him become a sacrifice in an ancient ritual intended to give immortality to the king of his former enemies. He must also save the witch, with whom he has fallen in love, from falling under the spell of a wicked queen.

Born under a cursed moon, left to die by his birth father in the land of his enemies, a young hero grows to adolescence knowing nothing of his origin. He survives a deadly initiation into the royal guard of his new country, and he befriends the king's two sons. But he falls in love with the girl destined to be one prince's betrothed-and forges a magical link with the deadliest weapon in the kingdom, Lord Somer's Sword, the Fool's Blade. Younger readers will sympathize with the young hero's struggle to balance love, duty, and friendship, while older readers will perhaps see parallels with Andre Norton's famous Witch World series.