Two villages suddenly disappear. All that remains is a vast swamp shrouded in thick mist and even thicker mystery. One village helped supply the kingdom with food, the other with limestone. The king orders the rebuilding of the villages and for work to continue. Time passes, and the tale of the missing villages becomes lore.Suddenly, children begin vanishing from their beds. Over the next one hundred years, forty-one children mysteriously vanish. Scouring through the records of the...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This must-read fantasy from an author who is legend herself--TAMORA PIERCE--is one Bustle calls "the perfect book for die-hard Pierce fans and newcomers alike.""Tamora Pierce's books shaped me not only as a young writer but also as a young woman. She is a pillar, an icon, and an inspiration."--SARAH J. MAAS, #1 New York Times bestselling author"Tamora Pierce didn't just blaze a trail. ...

In this epic fantasy adventure series opener, a young elf, afraid of the magic inside her, becomes a fearsome warrior.She is the unwanted spawn of a mad king and queen, her lands lost before her birth; her family—her very name—erased from history. Cursed by many, yet protected by an even great curse.She was born on a night of storm and terror, raised in protected concealment, then banished from the only home she had ever known—an ancient enemy's final stroke ...

An ancient blade, fit for the gods but tainted with a deadly curse.Bjarki Bloodhand has finally managed to subdue his gandr, the spirit that gives him the ferocity of a bear in battle. Yet losing his berserker prowess may leave him at the mercy of his foes.Meanwhile, his half-sister, the shield maiden Tor Hildarsdottir, has slain two warriors from the personal retinue of the new Jarl of Norrland and now faces brutal reprisals for their deaths.Valtyr Far-T...

Abarrach, the Realm of stone. Here, on a barren world of underground caverns built around a core of molten lava, the lesser races -- humans, elves, and dwarves -- seem to have all died off. Here, too, what may well be the last remnants of the once powerful Sartan still struggle to survive. For Haplo and Alfred -- enemies by heritage, traveling companions by necessity -- Abarrach may reveal more than either dares to discover about the history of Sartan... and the future of all their descend...

The epic fantasy adventure series continues as great magics change the Fortunate Lands, elves wage war, and one woman tries to unify the Hundred Houses.From the authors of the New York Times bestsellers When Darkness Falls and The Phoenix Transformed, and USA Today bestseller To Light a Candle . . .They thought the war was over. They were wrong.Great magics are changing the world of the Fort...

**The first three books in the epic fantasy The Necromancer's Key series.A corrupted power stirs from beyond the grave.The Necromancer Queen will rise again.**Seventeen years have passed since the Necromancer Queen was overthrown and slain by a holy order of knights. Raised in the sacred disciplines of the knights Order, Anskar prepares for the brutal initiation trials to become a consecrated knight-sorcerer.But as troubling powers awaken within him, a schism...

The first Forgotten Realms title ever published, now available as an eBook!Darkwalker on Moonshae was the very first novel ever published in the Forgotten Realms setting. Appearing in 1987, this title launched what has now become a robust and ever-expanding land of adventure for millions of readers.

----- The complete Catalysts of Chaos series -----(Book 1) Mistress of Masks: The hopeful adherent, Eydis, wants nothing more than to lead a life of solitary devotion within the sheltered walls of a seclusionary. But when her pilgrimage to a sacred grove ends in a vision of the end of the world, she realizes the Mother requires a more dangerous service from her. Seeking the catalysts prophecy says can overcome chaos, she aligns herself with a notorious tra...

A new book in the bestselling Sympathy of the Ages fantasy series brings a war of epic proportions.The Assassin King opens at winter's end with the arrival by sea of a mysterious hunter, a man of ancient race and purpose, who endlessly chants the names of the pantheon of demons that are his intended victims, as well as one other: Ysk, the original name of the Brother, now known as Achmed, the Assassin King of Ylorc.At the same moment of this porten...

When the brutal dvargir murder her parents, Morigna is raised by the Old Man, the mysterious and feared sorcerer of the hills.But the Old Man does nothing without a price.And his teachings have a purpose of their own...

The rebellious scion of a magical dynasty may hold the key to bring peace to his world in the first entry of this epic fantasy adventure duology.As the son of a long line of magically gifted, pureblood cartographers and diviners, Valen knows his path in life is predetermined by his family and society. On his seventh birthday, his own parents even went so far as to predict his death. He thought rebellion might steer him clear of his family's legacy, but the life of ...