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A Darkness at Sethanon - Riftwar Saga 4
This is the fourth and last volume in the Riftwar Saga (after Magician: Apprentice, Magician: Master and Silverthorn). After another year of peace, Arutha and Anita are about to present their newly-born twins to their subjects when Arutha is victim of a new attack by the black Moredhel. And while Arutha's party is starting a perilous journey northwards to confront his mysterious enemy Murmandamus, also meeting some old acquaintances on the way, Pug...
Exile's Return
After being branded a traitor and exiled by the mysterious Conclave of Shadows and magically taken to the little known continent of Novindus, (the ex) Duke Kaspar of Olasko finds himself stuck in a strange place and about to be killed by nomads. A narrow escape and another assassination attempt later (this time by a young boy with a crossbow), Kaspar finds himself shelter with a local woman and her son. Now Kaspar must roam the continent of Novindus, ...
Faerie Tale
Screenwriter Phil Hastings and his family move to a small town in New York State to try to resurrect his writing career. But there is something strange about the area they are living in. Little do they know that the Kessler place that they are living in used to be called Elf King Hill of Hill of the Elf King. The 8 year old twins Sean and Patrick are the first to notice that something is different and soon learn to stay away from the "bad thing" under...
Flight of the Nighthawks
When Caleb returns, everything changes for Tad and Zane. The two boys had been left out on Choosing Day, and therefore have no apprenticeship. Caleb offers Tad and Zane's mother to find an apprenticeship for the boys, and before they know it, they're on a cart leaving Stardock Town. They are followed by some bandits and, on Caleb's orders, flee, leaving Caleb to fight the bandits alone. Two bandits follow and the boys dispatch them before returning to th...

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Honoured Enemy
Captain Dennis Hartraft is from the crack band of Kingdom raiders, Hartrafts Marauders, trained to fight behind enemy lines. They head towards a frontier garrison after being attacked by Tsurani soldiers. Meanwhile, a Tsurani patrol is sent to attack the same one. Both groups arrive at once, to find that the garrison has been overrun by a horde of dark elves, or Moredhel. They have two choices: band together, or be killed. They opt for the first optio...
King of Foxes - Conclave of Shadows 2
King of Foxes: Conclave of Shadows: Book Two Eos, Apr 2004, 24.95, 400 pp. ISBN: 0380977095 Tal Hawkins, the last of the Osoni people, completed the first step in his plan of revenge with the destruction of the onsite leader of the massacre, the odious mercenary Raven (see Talon of the Hawk). Now Tal sets in motion part two with his plan to destroy the individual responsible for ordering the carnage, Kaspar, Duke of Olasko. However, getting cl...
Krondor: Tear of the Gods - Riftwar Legacy 3
This is the 3rd book in the Riftwar Legacy by Raymond E.Feist. In Tear of The Gods Feist not only continues the adventures of Squire James of the Prince's court. In the begining of the story the dreaded pirate Bear steals the Tear of the Gods from the ship it is being carried in. This leads to a series of events that leads to the involvement of the main character and hero of the story Squire James (also known as Jimmy the hand). He is ordered to seek ou...
Krondor: The Betrayal
In Krondor:The Betrayal, the Dark Elves are again on the move to Sethanon, the resting place of the Lifestone, on the assumption that Murmandamus is imprisoned there. With the help of a renegade Dark Elf, Gorath, Squire Locklear and Owyn Belefoe, a magician, travl to Krondor to warn of the coming theat. But all is not what it seems. The Dark Elf forces of Delekhan are backed by a mysterious group of magicians known as the Six. So while Squire James, aka ...
Magician: Apprentice - Riftwar Saga 1
Pug is an orphan brought to the duchy of Crydee when still a baby. at the age of sixteen the time of choosing he is apprenticed to master magician Kulgan. Pug is failing in his practical workings but is theoreticaly capable though something is stopping the magic from taking form, then for some reason, while out on a horse ride with the princess Carline he uses magic to drown two trolls. meanwhile an alien race has begun mapping the forests in preparatio...
Magician: Master
This is the second half of Magician, and second book in the Riftwar Saga (followed by Silverthorn and A Darkness at Sethanon). After four years a slave in the great swamps of Kelewan, harvesting ngaggi trees the wood and resin of which the Tsurani use for paper, tools, or weapons, Pug discovers soon enough that one of those trees is rotten to save the place from devastation. Along with his slave mate and former minstrel Laurie, he is then hired by a n...

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Prince of the Blood
After an attempt on the life of Borric and Erland, Princes of the blood, their father is very careful about seeing that they have adequate protection when they go to pay homage to the Empress of Kesh on her 75th jubilee. The added protection does not stop a band of kidnappers taking Borric during a sandstorm in the desert. Borric is to be sold as a slave until he escapes with the help of Suli Abul. While hiding in the governors house Borric uncovers a...
Rise of a Merchant Prince - Serpentwar Saga 2
This story follows the fortunes of Roo, the smaller of the two friends from the first novel "Shadow of a Dark Queen". Roo starts himself up in business but soon finds that he cannot succeed alone so sets up with an experienced trader that he met in the earlier novel. Roo takes over the business and marries the old man's daughter after Roo's business rival, Jacoby, causes the death of the old man. Roo falls for the daughter of a wealthy merchant and b...
Shadow of a Dark Queen - Serpentwar Saga 1
Rupert Avery "Roo" and Erik von Darkmoor are on the run after they kill Eriks half brother Stefan von Darkmoor, a nobleman who raped Erik's sweetheart Rosalyn. They are captured and sentenced to death but get a last minute reprieve on the condition that they work as mercenaries for the legendary Eagle of Krondor, Calis. They undergo a strict training regime under Calis's sergeant Bobby de Loungville, then head out to the distant land of Novindus, stopp...
Shards of a Broken Crown - Serpentwar Saga 4
General Fadawah decides to set up a kingdom for himself in Midkemia. He embarks on a campaign to cement his place in the Midkemian Northlands. Prince Patrick however is determined to retake Krondor, what he sees as the centre of his empire. It is up to Dash and Jimmy, grandsons of the legendary Jimmy the hand, to scout out the city and to set up law and order in the city once it is retaken. It is discovered by Pug and associates that there is again s...
Silverthorn - Riftwar Saga 3
This is the third book of the Riftwar Saga (after Magician: Apprentice and Magician: Master and before A Darkness at Sethanon). In Krondor, while discreetly escaping on the roofs after robbing a rich local merchant, Jimmy the Hand stumbles across a Nighthawk, an assassin. Finding out the target was Arutha, who has just come back from Rillanon to wed Anita, Jimmy decides to warn the Prince and help him discover who wants his death. As two Nighthawks...
Talon of the Silver Hawk
Eos, Apr 2003, 24.95, 400 pp. ISBN: 0380977087 High in the ice capped mountains live the peaceful Orosini. The villagers celebrate the Midsummer ritual, while a boy by himself seeks his vision before returning to Kulaam Village as a man. A couple of days have passed when he notices carrion flying over a nearby village, which means many people are dead and no one is removing their bodies. He rushes back to his village, but falls. When he regai...

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The King's Buccaneer
Nicholas, the future ruler of Midkemia is a tearaway teenager, so his father King Arutha sends him to his Uncle Martin at Crydee to make him into an apropriate charater to rule a Kingdom. While there he and his friend Harry fall for two girls of the court but unfortunately the girl Nicholas is interested in is also the object of his cousin's affection causing a great rivalry between the boys. An horrific raid on the town while the group are out hunting...