If everyone you grew up with were relying on you to save them, would you be able to do it?Thrust into the deep end, Aldora has to do exactly that. To save her village she has to find the Dagger of Protection, one of six so-called Weapons of Protection created by the kingdom's strongest sorcerer. With nobody else near enough to hunt down the thief, Aldora can't say no. Aided by the talking prince of the cats and a law enforcer hunting a murderer, failure is not an o...

Getting close to the king will kill him.After saving her village with the Dagger of Protection, Aldora's village hoped peace might finally return. But when a blood-gifted killer called Jules arrives with a grudge and a deadly plan, that hope shatters fast, and the village doubts Aldora’s ability to protect them.Meanwhile, Raneth (still chasing violent criminals across the kingdom) is abruptly summoned to escort the king to a crucial royal summit.Whe...

A deadly weapon. A working holiday. What could possibly go wrong?Newly promoted and repeatedly injured, Captain Raneth Bayre is drowning in responsibilities. Between continuing tensions in the Bayre-Frey Feud and his need to set a strong example for the royal officials under his command, he’s burning out fast, and all he wants is a few quiet days with the woman he loves.Dagger Bearer Aldora Leoma wants that for him too; crime across the kingdom is spiking, ...

One wants to rule the kingdom. The other wants to save it.Aldora stands between them.When Aldora and Raneth return to Giften, they expect celebration. Instead, they find the palace abandoned, the village destroyed, and a new ruler on the throne — Aldora’s uncle.Styling himself as the Kingdom’s Guardian, Denzel Leoma has claimed power with the backing of his Brethren — gifted enforcers with no loyalty to the crown — and a growing arm...

They saved the kingdom.But their enemy doesn’t need a blade to destroy them — just the right lie.Two weeks ago, Raneth and Aldora ended the reign of Aldora’s uncle and reclaimed Giften. Now, Raneth is acting regent, holding the kingdom together until the royal family returns. Aldora has lost the Dagger of Protection, her village, the people’s trust, and has been pushed to the edges of the life she helped protect.The kingdom may be s...

Everyone believes Princess Lemuela died when the kingdom fell.They're wrong.Held in secret beneath the sewers by the very group that destroyed her family, Lemuela has survived, but barely. Now, after eleven months of captivity, she escapes into a kingdom she no longer recognizes. A place torn between rebellion and renewal, where allies are scarce and enemies wear her face.Because Mila, a powerful healer and traitor, has used forbidden magic ...

It's not always fun playing the monster: after all, all you are is sword-fodder. But for the desperate, the misfit, the loner and the freak, dressing up in costume for the regular Saturday fantasy role-playing game in the woods is more satisfying than any reality. It's only make-believe, isn't it? It's not about life or death...or is it?Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Jigs & Reels.

Two of Rogues is an adult heroic fantasy novel split into ten separate story chapters starring two protagonists: the magic-wielding misanthropic mercenary Verl, and the charismatic thief Ikati. Together they must overcome their mutual amorality (and professional incompetence) to overcome numerous challenges in the semi-noble pursuit of lots of money: greedy knights, magical abominations, criminal master-wizards and one particularly hungry tiger to name but a few.Described in profes...

The fourth book in the page-turning SPELLSLINGER fantasy series.Kellen and his murderous squirrel cat, Reichis, are on their own. They've heard rumour of a mythical monastery, known as the Ebony Abbey. It's a place that outsiders can never find - but Kellen is getting desperate. He's been told that the monks inside the Ebony Abbey know more about the Shadowblack than anyone else - and that they even know how to cure it.Then Kellen and Reichis are separated ...

How far would you go for love?It's been over a year since the ancient tower fell and a great evil was defeated, but Ren is still haunted. Driven to return to the site of the great battle she fought in many moons past, the elven warrior has joined a rag-tag group of treasure hunters in a bid to re-enter the tower and face the danger within. It is not greed, or even vengeance that has carried her across the lands and back to the dark ruins, but something far more powerful.

The final book in Ursula K. Le Guin's must-read Books of Earthsea.The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. The dead are pulling him to them at night. Through him they may free themselves and invade Earthsea.Alder seeks advice from Ged, once Archmage. Ged tells him to go to Tenar, Tehanu, and the young king at Havnor. They are joined by amber-eyed Irian, a fierce dragon able to assume the shape of a woman. The threat can be confronted only in the Immanent Grove on Ro...

Discover and rediscover the world of the Queen's Thief, from the acclaimed novel The Thief to the thrilling, twenty-years-in-the-making conclusion, The Return of the Thief. The epic novels set in the world of the Queen’s Thief can be read in any order.Thick as Thieves is the fifth novel set in the world of the Queen’s Thief. New York Times-bestselling author Megan Whalen Turner’s entrancing and award-winni...