Magnus Odinson and the Monsters of Ragnarok (Viking Gods, #1)
by S G Eastment
Deadman's Retinue (An NPC's Path Book #3) (Npc's Path, #3)
by Pavel Kornev
The Iron Tree (The Crowthistle Chronicles, #1)
by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Jarred, recently come of age, is leaving the sun-scorched desert village that has always been his home. He sets out with a band of friends to see the mighty and beautiful kingdom of the north and to seek out the truth about his father, who came to the village a stranger and departed when Jarred was ten, never to return. After the travellers are set upon in a ravine and several of their number sustain injuries, they seek shelter in the Marsh of Slievmordhu - a cool green world of dazzling beauty...
The Banished Lands are torn by war as the army of High King Nathair sweeps the realm challenging all who oppose his holy crusade. Allied with the manipulative Queen Rhin of Cambren, there are few who can stand against him. But Rhin is playing her own games and has her eyes on a far greater prize ...Left for dead - her kin have fled and her country is overrun with enemies - Cywen fights to survive. But any chance of escape is futile once Nathair and his disquieting advisor Calidus realize who she...
The worlds of fantasy and reality merged in an outstanding first novel of imaginative humour.A diabolical book has spoken of shellfish falling from the sky, and men in skirts on Brighton beach, while a monster, unstuck in time, clatters around the universe . Now the Prophecy has come to pass, and eternal night is over! For the first time in over a thousand years, the sun rises over the battlements of Castle Limbo -- and the King realises he's in big trouble. Being one of the few to have read the...
An outstanding new adult fantasy from an author acclaimed for her fiction aimed at younger readers.The setting is a fabulously wealthy maritime city where created humans (genics) are despised and exploited by the genuine human citizens. But then the sinister Count Dracone plots to seize ultimate power with the aid of infernal beings and the emissaries and technology of the sinister northern Empire.Set in a parallel Venice, this is a beautifully written fantasy of good versus evil, tolerance and...
Heavy is the head—and the eyelids—of the princess who wears the crown…In Rosamund's realm, happiness hinges on a few simple beliefs:For every princess there's a prince.The king has ultimate power.Stepmothers should never be trusted.And bad things come to those who break with Tradition….But when Rosa is pursued by a murderous huntsman and then captured by dwarves, her beliefs go up in smoke. Determined to escape and save her kingdom from imminent invasion, she agrees to become the guinea pig in o...
Simon isn't human. He doesn't look non-human, not at first glance at least. He used to be human, back when he was still mortal. But now he's not mortal either. He's not undead either, though he's died once or twice. He's magic, the most powerful kind, the kind of magic that kills a god.