The Lord of the Isles

6 primary works

Lord of the Isles

by David Drake

Published 1 August 1997

With "Lord of the Isles", David Drake returns to fantasy with a towering and complex epic of heroic adventure set in an extraordinary and colourful world where the elemental forces that empower magic are rising to a thousand-year peak. In the days following an unusually severe storm, the inhabitants of a tiny seaport town travel toward romance, danger, and astonishing magic that will transform them and their world.

Queen of Demons

by David Drake

Published 1 January 1998

The second epic volume in the grand saga begin in Lord of the Isles. As Garric, Sharina, Cashel, and Tenoctris move toward their confrontation with contending forces of evil, the cosmic forces of magic are reaching a millennial peak.

Servant of the Dragon

by David Drake

Published 1 August 1999

In the third book of Drake's LORD OF THE ISLES series, the young King Garric is faced with all the burdens of kingship. Guided by the ghost of King Carus and the help of the soceress Tenoctris, Garric should have few problems. But a threat emerges from the past - the Wizard Purlio seeks to conquer the future with an army of the dead. And Garric's sister Sharina has gone missing, abducted through time itself by a gigantic bird. And if Garric hopes to defeat the dead, he must become one of them ...

Mistress of the Catacombs

by David Drake

Published 1 September 2001

The LORD OF THE ISLES series has cemented David Drake's reputation in the US as a bestselling fantasy author, rapidly making him one of the top five fantasy authors in the US. And with over 60,000 copies in print with Gollancz, he is growing fast in the UK as well. Combining detailed and evocative world building, epic scale and superbly described military action, this series is perfect for all fans of George R.R. Martin and Robert Jordan.

Goddess of the Ice Realm

by David Drake

Published 10 September 2003

The fifth and best novel yet in David Drake's acclaimed epic fantasy series, Lord of the Isles

Starting in Lord of the Isles and continuing in Queen of Demons, Servant of the Dragon, and Mistress of the Catacombs, David Drake has told the continuing, interlocking stories of Garric and Sharina, Cashel and Ilna, young brother and sister pairs who journey together from a small town to the capital. Their destiny is to reunite the island kingdoms of the Isles into one empire for the first time in a millennium. They seek to do this at a moment in history when the cosmic forces upon which magicians draw are at a thousand year peak. Wizards of even small learning are immensely powerful. Human greed and evil are reinforced by supernatural energies

In Goddess of the Ice Realm, as Garric and his retinue reach the island city of Carcosa, the wizard Tenoctris perceives a powerful supernatural assault directed against them. Ilna and her beloved, Chalcus, are sent to investigate a magical threat to shipping in the north. Cashel is translated into another world by evil magic, and Sharina to yet another. All of them face deadly dangers and overcome them before they are again united during the terrifying and dramatic climax.

Filled with action, startling revelations, romance and sorcery, Goddess of the Ice Realm is epic fantasy at its exciting best.

Master of the Cauldron

by David Drake

Published 3 May 2016