In the captivating sequel to “Once Upon a Knight’s Time,” Diega Scott is thrust into the heart of an ancient quest – the relentless pursuit of the legendary and powerful sword, Excalibur. “Once Upon a Knight’s Time: Seeker of the Sword” follows Diega’s action-filled, time-traveling journeys from 17th-century France to the dawn of the 19th-century Americas. As Diega edges closer to the end of her epic journey, she realizes that it has been a journey of self-discovery, as fate has led her to love, betrayal, revelation of the profound truth of her time-traveling gift, and how Excalibur is bound to her in ways she never imagined.
In one of the last battles in World War I, Gordon Powell volunteers for a suicide mission upon hearing of his younger brother’s death. Although he survives and is decorated as a war hero, he enters civilian life a broken man. Over one hundred years later, cultural anthropologist, Sarah Jacobs discovers fragments of information about Gordon. Stagnant in her career, she becomes curious about Gordon and how this broken man transformed his life. Her own grandfather struggled over his lifetime with PTSD. Sarah travels to Kenya, where Gordon Powell settled after the war, to recreate Gordon’s story from the few pieces of the puzzle she has. In the wilds of Kenya, Sarah meets Jack Powell, Gordon’s great grandson, who runs a struggling safari camp with his sister. Despite a rocky start, Jack agrees to help Sarah in her search. As they uncover a transformative and heartrending romance between Gordon and an English aristocrat, past and present collide as romance blooms between Sarah and Jack. When a journalist unexpectedly shows up at the camp, his idea for a story may jeopardize the budding relationship between Sarah and Jack as well as the camp’s future.
All through her life, Tamara Knight, whose first name is pronounced like tomorrow but with an a instead of an o, has endured playful jabs about her name. But as a captain in the U. S. Army, there's nothing amusing about her latest mission. When Tamara's brother, T.M., leads a team to develop a next-generation military uniform, he unknowingly sets off a chain of deadly events. After a terrorist attack on the research facility, Tamara escapes with the only prototype, while T.M. and his colleagues are either killed or captured. Believed to be dead and framed as a traitor, Tamara's mission becomes twofold: clear her name and rescue the hostages. With the help of CIA Agent Joe Jankowski, a former special forces operative, she must harness the full potential of the uniform her brother entrusted to her. From covert operations to high-tech showdowns, Tamara's journey is fraught with danger. Her enemies are powerful, and their reach is vast. Can Tamara outmaneuver those who seek to control the ultimate weapon? Join Captain Tamara Knight as she fights to reclaim her honor and uncover the truth in a world where technology and warfare intersect in deadly ways.
A powerful magician. A magic sword. And a valley full of dragons ... Evil magician Lord Jezail has unearthed the terrible sword, Dragonslayer, from the depths of Edinburgh Castle, where it has lain buried for centuries. But the sword has its own agenda — to seek out and slay dragons. Ensnared by its magic, Lord Jezail sets out to kill Arthur, the wonderful red dragon who lives under Arthur's Seat, and attack the fabled Valley of the Dragons. As the World of Magic finds itself on the brink of war, human children Neil and Clara join forces with witches, wolf people and magicians to stop Lord Jezail, the Dragon Seeker. Can friends and enemies unite to save their world from destruction?
The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of gods, legends, and myths. In Gods, Heroes, and Kings, medievalist Christopher Fee and veteran myth scholar David Leeming unearth the layers of the British Isles' unique folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly disparate tales developed. The authors find a virtual battlefield of myths in which pagan and Judeo-Christian beliefs fought for dominance, and classical, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Celtic narrative threads became tangled together. The resulting body of legends became a strange but coherent hybrid, so that by the time Chaucer wrote "The Wife of Bath's Tale" in the fourteenth century, a Christian theme of redemption fought for prominence with a tripartite Celtic goddess and the Arthurian legends of Sir Gawain-itself a hybrid mythology. Without a guide, the corpus of British mythology can seem impenetrable. Taking advantage of the latest research, Fee and Leeming employ a unique comparative approach to map the origins and development of one of the richest folkloric traditions. Copiously illustrated with excerpts in translation from the original sources,Gods, Heroes, and Kings provides a fascinating and accessible new perspective on the history of British mythology.
This is an ebook omnibus of books 4, 5 and 6 in the popular Dragonfire series: Firestar, Witch Silver, and Dragon Seeker. Book 4 sees Neil and Clara on holiday near Aberdeen. Little do they know that Firestar, the heart of all magic, is under attack, and their magical friends in great danger. In book 5, Neil and Clara are lead into a nail-biting adventure with witches and a silver amulet. The final installment in the thrilling Dragonfire series finds Neil and Clara joining forces with witches, wolf people, MacArthurs and magicians to stop the Dragon Seeker, Lord Jezail, and his sword Dragonslayer.
"The most important and challenging book on Arthurian and Grail tradition for many a long year." - Gareth Knight. The relationship between human and Faery lies at the very core of the Arthurian stories. In this radical re-evaluation of the Grail legends, Wendy Berg brings the ancient mythology of the British Isles into sharp focus centred around the marriage of King Arthur to the Faery Gwenevere and the origin and destiny of the Grail Hallows. Drawing upon numerous Arthurian sources and other related texts from the Book of Genesis to The Lord of the Rings, she explores the magical ritual underpinning of the legends and their connection to the ancient stellar deities of Britain. "When these stories are read with the additional level of understanding that they are for the most part a record of the lives and relationships of Faeries and humans working together about the Round Table, they immediately become not only a great deal more interesting, but also acquire a new and vivid relevance for the present day."
With The Grail Tarot, John Matthews and Giovanni Caselli join forces to bring to together the elements of the grail legend in a wonderfully conceived and beautifully designed new tarot. The grail legend is one of the most famous and enduring mysteries of all time. At the story's center is a group of knights on a quest to find the ancient relic. The Grail Tarot relates this search for the sacred Christian relic to our desire to understand the puzzle of our own lives. The Knights Templar have long been linked with the Grail, and they and other archetypal figures associated with the Templar mysteries - as well as well-known Grail figures such as Galahad - take their place in the Major Arcana of the deck. The suits are represented by the four Hallows of the Grail: cup, spear, sword and stone.
Terra Immortalis is a fantasy role-playing game of imagination and adventure. The dead walk the earth, a mad god has doomed the planet, and you are the heroes in the planet's last hours. Are you up to the challenge?
