With its sweeping storyline and strong characters, The Song of the Silver cades has the pace and feel of the very best epic fantasy. Beautifully written, it's a brilliant follow-up to the critically acclaimed, The Whisper of Leaves, as it follows its heroine, Kira, on her nail-biting quest to save her people.;...
The mare snorted, wild-eyed, and danced sideways as a dark shape launched itself at Kira, knocking her off her feet. It leapt on top of her, then a disfigured face thrust close, its lips drawing back in a macabre smile as hands tightened around her throat. With battles raging and Shargh warriors threatening the future of Allogrenia, gold-eyed Kira is forced to betray her every principle by requesting Tremen Protectors fight and kill to defend their homeland. As the sickening carnage continues, Ashmiri treachery threatens to deliver Shargh victory. Realising her love of Tierken is not enough to bridge the gulf between them and their respective people, Kira flees Terak. Reunited with Caledon, her companion of yore, Kira decides to make for her Tremen homeland. But as she and Caledon approach Allogrenia, Caledon's star vision fails him and they're confronted by Shargh.
The Treman community, which has long been isolated in the forests, has been breached by intruders, leaving the healer Kira to decide what to do when she suspects it is she the intruders are after.
Meet Ella and Olivia. Big sister. Little sister. Best friends. Baking fun, toy collecting, puppy trouble and more - it's lucky Ella and Olivia have each other to share their fun! Read eight of their exciting adventures in the Big Book of Ella and Olivia.
The Silence of Stone is the second book in The Kira Chronicles series, a high fantasy, richly imagined coming of age story, set in a beautifully crafted world of deep emerald forests and vast sweeping plains. How can fire quench fire?The Tremen are dying and Kira is in a deadly race against time to save them. Somewhere deep in the Warens' labyrinth of underground tunnels, lies the answer to a riddle that can cure Shargh wounds.To find it, she must defeat the tunnels' unmapped darkness and Kest, the blue-eyed, blond-haired Commander of the Protectors. As leader of the force Kasheron established to keep the Tremen safe, Kest is sworn to protect, and everything Kira does puts her at terrible risk.As she fights to heal, and he to protect, they join in an uneasy alliance to save the people they love. The stakes rise even further when Kira is made Tremen Leader. The Tremen are riven by division and she must stop them breaking apart. Desperate to find the cause of the Shargh attacks and end the Tremen's suffering, she goes ever deeper into the Warens' perilous darkness. Kest searches too, in the sunlit world above, and when he and his men make a gruesome discovery, he realizes what drives the Shargh's murderous attacks. But then he makes a deadly mistake.As Kira learns more of her brutal lineage, she is confronted with the horrifying truth that to save her people, she must lose them forever. Can Kira preserve Kasheron's legacy of peace and healing? Or will all he fought for be swept away by the violence he fled?If you love your female heroes feisty, your fantasy worlds with sun-dappled forests, quiet owl-filled nights, and just the right dash of romance, you will love The Silence of Stone, Book 2 of the six book The Kira Chronicles series.Buy The Silence of Stone today to enter the forest world of the Tremen and continue your amazing adventure with Kira as she fights to save her people.
Kai Masters is a Border Captain. He must battle beasts to keep Earth safe. There are more beasts in Beastium. Mega-mutants. Kai needs help. He must build a team. He must choose a battle partner. Can Kai and Akin win against the mud mega-mutant? Previously published as Terratoratan.
Peter F. Hamilton returns to the future world of Mindstar Rising with an engrossing new adventure of Greg Mandel, a freelance operative whose telepathic abilities give him a crucial edge in the high-tech world of the twenty-first century. Professor Edward Kitchener, a double Nobel laureate researching quantum cosmology for the powerful Event Horizon conglomerate, has been savagely murdered. But was he the victim of industrial espionage, personal revenge, or a crime of passion by one of his handpicked team of live-wire students? Event Horizon needs to know, and fast, so Greg Mandel, PSI-boosted veteran of the infamous Mindstar Battalion, must embark on an urgent investigation that ultimately leads him to an astounding confrontation with a past, which, according to the dead man's theories, might never have happened.