In a time of unrest and suspicion, two Guardians must unit a realm of five races against a common enemy. Unbeknown to them a deep web of deceit and betrayal is being spun, to capture the strange girl they befriended during their journey. With the aid of a motley crew of misfit Rangers, the Guardians must race against time in their quest.
Return to the "utterly addictive" (RT Book Reviews), "fast-paced and humorous" (Publishers Weekly) world of New York Times bestselling author Dianne Duvall's Immortal Guardians. Dana Pembroke has been able to glimpse the future of those she touches for as long as she can remember. But she never saw Aidan coming. When the tall, dark Celt with the charming grin yet world-weary eyes walks through her door, the future she sees for him is one full of violence, danger, deception... and passion. Because amidst the terrifying battles that unfold in her visions, she also sees herself in Aidan's arms and in his bed. Dana knows she should keep her distance, but the tender moments and laughter they share entice her even as she finds herself thrust into a world of vampires, immortals, and other preternatural beings. Immortal Guardian Aidan O'Byrne has been hunting and slaying psychotic vampires for nearly three thousand years, so visions of bloody battles don't trouble him. The battles Dana foresees, however, show Aidan's brethren turning against him, so he can't help but feel alarmed. While he spends as much time as he can with Dana, struggling to decipher her dire predictions, Aidan finds himself utterly smitten. Hope rises that he has finally found a woman who can banish the darkness and loneliness that plague him. But when vampires begin targeting Dana and a powerful enemy spawns chaos, will fate grant them time to find happiness together?
When twin brother and sister, Laura and Jake Adams, find themselves suddenly moving to Aria, California, their ordinary lives are soon left behind. As they start to establish themselves into their manor home, they soon discover a secret surrounding their family. Their parents refuse to tell them what they know, but their strange dreams are ready to reveal the truth. As they begin to discover the powers they can wield, the Guardians and the Filii Tenebrarum are desperately searching for them. Will the powers they possess be enough to protect them, or will the darkness consume them in the end?
Harry Lionsey is one of a group of secret guardians. Humans share the earth with all the many secret races of myths and legends, and it is Harry's job to protect all those who live in the Gate City. Be you human, faerie, shifter or sprite, as long as you are on the side of good he will help and defend you; but if you are out to harm them, watch out. Doesn't matter what race you are. If you harm the innocent he will find you and stop you. This is a collection of short stories. This first book brings together all the previously published short stories and now includes a never before seen novella.
It's been said that for every new beginning, there is a new ending. Or perhaps you've even heard that for every life, there is a death. But what are the chances that one may endure one, as well as the other, at almost the exact same time? A man devoted to both his family and duty gets thrown for a spin when an inexplicable evil parades his home, a land for people unlike ourselves who are meant to protect us, and eradicates his entire race. All that remains of what used to be, lies within the egg that contains his unborn child. All of his plans as a husband and soon-to-be father are put on hiatus as Storm, Guardian of Fire, searches for the ending that will hopefully restore his new beginning.
Monsters hide. Love divides. The dead will rise. They say that when the world is out of balance, the Guardians of Dawn are reborn. Li Ami is an exile. Exiled from friendships, from ordinary magic, and from her own family, Ami is sent to the outermost West to care for her mentally ill father, whose rantings and ravings might actually spell out a dire prophecy. When her father is arrested for stealing from the sacred grounds of the castle, Ami must make herself of use to the presiding Beast by finding a cure to the mysterious blight that is decimating their harvest. Guardian of Wood...There you are... Meanwhile, as signs of magical corruption arise throughout the Morning Realms and the threat of the Mother of Ten Thousand Demons looms ever larger, the tenuous peace holding the Realms together begins to unravel. Jin Zhara, the newly empowered Guardian of Fire, realizes that she might be out of her element. Her magic is no match for the growing tide of undead, and she needs the Guardian of Wood to defeat the revenants razing the countryside. The two must journey to the Root of the World in order to seal the demon portal there and restore balance to an increasingly chaotic world. Filled with adventure, romance and a race against time, Guardians of Dawn: Ami is the next book in the richly imagined Guardians of Dawn series.
Nurtured by sorcery, fighting prowess enhanced by spells and protected against steel's, sharp edge by enchantments, Guardians of the TEMPLE OF EKKRAN venture across the known world in the service of their evil Deity. Agents of death and destruction, no kingdom or empire can bar their path in executing the will of fiendish Sorcerer-Priests in whose icy grip the Palahian Empire shivers in dread. First among the Guardians is Ral Thagus, Clique-Leader and Champion of the Priest Trelon, who is second only to the First-Priest Shakron, an evil mage plotting the demise of mankind. Forbidden to love, Ral gives his heart to a hostage noblewoman and is banished from the Temple. An Outcast, Ral finds himself on the distant High Plateau, a land rife with warfare, political intrigue,and betrayal; a region of many city-states and kingdoms ruled by the once honorable Arkhuns and their nobility, the Horselords, who worship sword-cults to which they owe a separate loyalty. It is a land overrun with mercenaries called Bloodspillers, swords bought by Arkhun gold. Forever hunted by his own Guardian brethren whom he must kill to survive, Ral is plunged into this maelstrom by the diabolical schemes of his former patrons.
Bestselling author Kathryn Lasky takes flight once more with a brand-new Guardians of Ga'Hoole novel! An owlet hatches out onto Stormfast Island and into a world torn by war. For one hundred years, his people have fought off enemy owls from the Ice Talons, but the tide has turned. An invasion is coming, one the Kielian League won't have the strength to resist. Soon the tyrant owl Bylyric will rule over everything, and no honorable owl will be safe. Only the small owl from Stormfast stands between Bylyric and total victory. Lyze is not very impressive to look at, but he has a wild idea for a snake and owl strike unit that just might give the soldiers of the Kielian League the edge they need.This is his story, the story of an ordinary owl who rose to become Ezylryb of the Great Tree. This is the story of what it takes to make a Guardian of Ga'Hoole.