Showing results for "Firebird" in Fantasy

In Mercedes Lackey's Firebird, Ilya, son of a Russian prince, is largely ignored by his father and tormented by his larger, older brothers. His only friends are three old people: a priest, a magician, and a woman who toils in the palace dairy. From them Ilya learns faith, a smattering of magic, and the power of love - all of which he will need desperately, for his life is about to be turned upside down.

Das erste Mal sieht Julian Malina tanzend auf einer Bühne. Das zweite Mal auf einem verwüsteten Schlachtfeld. Der Drache, der dem römischen Centurio innewohnt, ist sich sicher: Malina ist sein Juwel. Um sie vor der Brutalität seiner eigenen Soldaten zu retten, beansprucht Julian die Dakerin für sich und bringt sie als seine Sklavin nach Rom.

Agreeing to accompany her father's people back to their homeworld, Kira Forrest prepares for the fight of her life. She's agreed to undertake the Trial of the Broken, a rite of passage every member of her father's House must pass. It offers a path to independence and freedom that is too tempting to deny. Not everyone welcomes this lost daughter of Roake. There are those who fear what her presence might bring to light. Betrayal stalks the halls of Kira's birthplace-its roots embedded deep in the events that claimed her parent's lives and set her on her current path.

Tadra has known her entire life that she was meant for a great destiny. But she never expected it to happen like this: trapped in a strange new world, her magic broken and her voice silenced, unable to shift to anything other than a tiny shadow of her firebird's glory. Ansel's kiss releases Tadra from her glass prison...just in time to face the battle bearing down on both of them.

Tatyana Vorona has no idea that she just made a deal with a vampire. When the naïve human bookkeeper offers to help locate embezzled funds for a wealthy CEO, she doesn’t realize she’s being set up as bait. Oleg Sokolov is a fire vampire as ancient as he is vicious. It’s bad enough that his daughter stole money from him, but now she’s sought refuge with one of his bitter rivals. He wants her back under his control, and he doesn’t mind using Tatyana to draw her out.

Magical creatures known as beings emerged from hiding amid the destruction of the First World War. Since then they've lived on the margins of the human world as misunderstood objects of fear and desire. Some are beautiful, others fearsome and powerful. Yet for all their magic and strength, they are as vulnerable as anyone when it comes to matters of the heart.

He doesn't have a name. Or better, he doesn't remember it. Until another human stumbles, wounded, into his life. Memories start come come back, of a life long lost. And maybe he has lived longer than what everybody thinks, including himself. A Silvery Earth novella.

Fletcher and Scoop are Apprentice Adventurers from the ancient establishment of Blotting's Academy on Fullstop Island, the place where all story characters are trained. The trouble is, they can't remember how they got there. It's the first day of term, but the two apprentices soon realize something is wrong. Things are going missing, including their own memories, and Scoop has the unsettling feeling that something is creeping in the shadows. As the children search for answers, they become entangled with the life of the Storyteller, the island's creator and king.

Prince Ivan has never been very good with directions. After wandering off the path and losing his way in the mountains of Autumn, he stumbles into a beautiful garden full of incredibly life-like statues. Even more surprising, the garden is home to a long-forgotten creature remembered only in bedtime stories and nursery tales: a Phoenix. Intrigued, Ivan decides to stick around, only to discover that the garden is home to more inhabitants than a lone firebird.

In the centuries-long battle between humans and changelings, those who are taken by the changelings do not live. They do not return. They are simply gone. And for the humans left behind, there is only the brutal reign of the Irskan king. Having spent her life in the castle, Fionna has protected herself and her younger sister by securing a position as a servant. But when the rebels mistake Fionna for the Irskan princess, she becomes a hostage of Helio, the cruel changeling leader whose mismatched eyes haunt her dreams.

Anya's journey for revenge against Baba Yaga and Yanka leads her to search for a powerful artifact that will help her stop them once and for all. On the way, she will confront the dark goddess Louhi and join forces with two formidable magicians: the cursed magician Kullervo, and Eldon Blaise, the apprentice to the legendary Merlin. As long-buried secrets of history and the heart come to light, Anya grapples with the darkness lurking within her own soul.

Anya is still reeling from the death of her grandfather when a strange encounter with the Finnish God of the Dead changes her life forever: Her family has been guarding the gates to the Russian otherworld on their farm for centuries, and she’s the new gatekeeper. Worse, if she doesn’t awaken her magical abilities and assume her new role, the gate will break, unleashing a flood of monsters and dark gods into their world.

Haunted by the aftermath of her clash with the sorcerer Ladislav, Anya finds herself ensnared in the ethereal realm of dreams, struggling to reclaim her shattered psyche and return to the waking world. Branded as outcasts and pursued by the forces of darkness, Anya's companions transport her comatose body to Budapest, a city teeming with newfound allies and sanctuary from their supernatural pursuers. Their quest: to locate Yanka, Anya's legendary ancestor whose power may tip the scales in the looming conflict.

Tsar Kirill’s only daughter is ailing. Poachers and robbers plague his kingdom. He doesn’t want a wife. Especially not that one. Tsarevna Yuliana has a home, already. She doesn’t want to leave everything she’s known and the seaside that she grew up by to start a new life in a strange land. Especially not with him.

Meet Jael Quinlan, Melbourne's renegade exorcist, determined to battle the darkness lurking in the shadows. Guided by Uriel, the formidable Archangel of the North, Jael faces demons unlike any she's encountered before—each eager for an impending apocalypse that they are sure they are going to win this time.

Two years have passed since Aramis and Søren last battled alongside Anya in Russia, yet their duty to recover all of the elves' stolen relics continues. When Aramis gets a lead on a book of magic, he and Søren decide to investigate and find more than they bargained for - dark elf females who have no idea the power they wield. All Asta wants to do is study the strange book she inherited from her mother and hang out with her cousin Tyra. The last thing she wants is to help the arrogant Dr. Søren Madsen with his research until she learns he's hunting a book suspiciously like hers.