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By Eleanor Herman

ISBN-10: 146039089X

ISBN-13: 9781460390894

Think a time whilst the gods flip a blind eye to the soreness of fellows, whilst the final of the hellions roam the plains and evil stirs past the perimeters of the map. A time while towns burn, and of their ashes, empires rise.

Alexander, Macedonia’s sixteen-year-old inheritor, is close to getting to know his fated function in conquering the recognized global yet reveals himself attracted to newcomer Katerina, who needs to navigate the darkish secrets and techniques of court docket lifestyles whereas hiding her personal undertaking: kill the Queen. yet Kat’s old flame, Jacob, will visit unthinkable lengths to win her, no matter if it skill competing for her center with Hephaestion, a assassin sheltered by means of the prince. and much around the sea, Zofia, a Persian princess and Alexander’s unmet fiancée, desires to modify her future by means of looking the famed and lethal Spirit Eaters.

Weaving delusion with the salacious and engaging info of actual heritage, long island occasions bestselling writer Eleanor Herman reimagines the best emperor the area has ever recognized: Alexander the nice, within the first e-book of the Blood of Gods and Royals sequence.

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Along with oak and hawthorn, it protected against the spirits o f the night. his nephew that ended its bright splendor. the forests in Brittany or a rocky tomb or M erlin was there, just out of sight and in the air-where he lives invisible, having watchful almost to the end, which he fore­ spoken only to tell Arthur's knight Sir Ga- saw but was helpless to avert. It was he wain about the H o ly Grail. The truth cannot be determined and who found Arthur's sword, Excalibur, with the Lady of the Lake, and he who directed does not matter.

The island in mist, and they sailed by u n ­ In the end, Louhi herself came after aware. H e could raise storms if he wanted,- V a in a m o in e n , in the shape of a m o n ­ and if he needed to, he could toss wooden strous, ravening sea bird. She settled on chips into the water and make each grow the mast of the ship, darkening the sky into a warship. H e could conjure 100 with her wings. Then there was fierce bat­ armed men from each of his troops. tle. The wizard fought the sorceress with In peace he was a provider of prosper­ his sword and, when he had to, with his ity.

The sow snuffled beneath the tree and the w ind sighed in the branches, but the eagle made n o t a so un d. T he w iz a rd g a ze d at it thoughtfully for some moments. Then he sang a charm. The bird slipped down to the m iddle branches of the tree. G w y d io n paused,- he sang another charm, and then he waited. The feeble creature dropped to a lower branch. And a third time, Gwydion sang, b id d in g the bird to come to him. W hen he finished, the eagle dropped to Gwydion's knee. At once he struck the bird and it van­ ished.

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