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For years, Glen Cook's Black Company series has built a major audience among fantasy fans. Told from the "worm's-eye" view of the soldiers and functionaries who fight in the trenches of vast sorceress wars, this epic has riveted a generation of readers. If the Joseph Heller of Catch-22 were to tell the story of The Lord of the Rings, it might read like the Black Company books.

Desperate to escape the terrors of Ravenloft, Marguerite came to Lord Donskoy's castle full of hope for the future. Instead, she found herself betrothed to a mysterious purveyor of flesh whose secret past, like the dead, refused to stay buried. Now Donskoy's marriage has invoked a dark curse, and Marguarite into a web of fear and passion.

Eloran is a world of imperious elves, fractious human realms, and the hated, skeletal kaul—with each nation poised to grasp at any advantage over the others. When Latanna Forgrym's despised father tries to betroth her to the youngest son of a powerful, manipulative family, she forges a new path by instead marrying a man she respects but doesn't love. A chance encounter with a pair of mercenaries leads Latanna to a lost crown, a relic of forces the world has tried desperately to forget, and gives her the means to break free from her corrupt family—but at a terrible price.

Young, wealthy, and good-looking, Jan Palmer leads the kind of life most of us would die for. He has it all - except for one thing: happiness. Trapped under the weight of his responsibilities to his family, his business, and his life, he wishes only to escape to another world. But you have to be careful what you wish for. Waking out of a deep sleep, Jan finally finds escape - into a living nightmare.

This saga of Isabel’s Bridges has shown the nature of the System of Universes, and the beings of the Dark Forces making their moves and taking the advantage of constant change to improve their chances during their fight on the Great War.

El Coronel Abernathy ex miembro de las Fuerzas Armadas de Su Majestad se retiró a su residencia de soltero en Londres muchos años atrás. Es miembro del Club de Caballeros de Londres y es en una tarde de lluvia que comparte con un miembro del club, una anécdota de su tiempo en la armada, cuando estaba en la entonces Guyana Británica, en América del Sur. Ahí se encontró con a historia del León, un animal extraordinario extinto hace miles de años.