fantasy fiction

Seventeen year-old Britta Flannery is the outcast daughter of a bounty hunter who must use her powers to track her father's killer in a world of warring kingdoms, and dangerous magic.

In the land of Kaya, lovers die in pairs--when one dies, the bond of love takes the other to the grave, too. That was true until Ava. When her bondmate Avery is murdered, Ava?s hatred for his murderer beats the bond, allowing her to live on to vow revenge on the barbarian queen of Pirenti. Her vengeance is interrupted when she is captured by the deadly Prince Ambrose, her nation?s enemy. However, Ambrose finds his Kayan prisoner captivating, and when they are stranded on a dangerous island, both Ambrose and Ava find themselves questioning their convictions.

Prince Merik is presumed dead after an explosion destroyed his ship. But he's alive and haunts the streets of the royal capital intent of proving his sister's treachery. Unrecognized, he fights on behalf of the weak, leading the locals to refer to him as a demigod they call Fury. And after Safi and the Empress of Marstok barely survive a surprise attack, they find themselves alone in the land of pirates who could unleash an all-out war.

"A group of rogues now rules the pine forest, and their cruel leader, Darktail, will not stop until he has conquered the rest of the Clans. Alderheart is more certain than ever that their only hope is to find the lost SkyClan and fulfill StarClan's prophecy--before Darktail's vicious reign puts an end to the warrior Clans forever..."--OCLC.

Just before October's eighteenth birthday, she learns that she's not the ordinary girl she spent her life thinking she was--she's the daughter of a troll princess and a fairy prince. And she holds the fate of the two warring worlds in her hands.

Princess Oressa Madalin of the kingdom of Carastind loves sneaking into places she isn't allowed to go. When she overhears her father, the king, talking about a coming war, Oressa determines to save Carastind--but to do so she may have to defy her father. Allying herself with Gulien, her brother, Oressa goes to see the Kieba, a woman who controls the magic of a thousand dead gods on her unfathomable mountain. However, the invaders know about the Kieba, and want her power for themselves.

In Kaya, where both members of a couple die together, Finn joins a group of young people in search of a rumored cure, and meets Prince Thorne of the neighboring kingdom of Pirenti who has spent his life rigidly controlling his inner darkness.

As Jake Wilde's father, David and Maskelyne work furiously to finalize the preparations for rescuing Venn's wife from the dead a great storm rolls in leaving the Abby drown and the Obsidian Mirror, and key to their work, missing. And as Halloween draws near, a murderous hunt ensues.

Royal assassin Celaena must travel to a new land to confront a truth about her heritage, while brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world.

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