Risultati per "Amy Harmon" in Fantascienza e fantasy

The day my mother was killed, she told my father I wouldn’t speak again, and she told him if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would sell his soul and lose his son to the sky. My father has a claim to the throne, and he is waiting in the shadows for all of my mother’s words to come to pass. He wants desperately to be king, and I just want to be free. But freedom will require escape, and I’m a prisoner of my mother’s curse and my father’s greed. I can’t speak or make a sound, and I can’t wield a sword or beguile a king.

Kjell of Jeru had always known who he was. He'd never envied his brother or wanted to be king. He was the bastard son of the late King Zoltev and a servant girl, and the ignominy of his birth had never bothered him. But there is more to this man than his parentage. More to this man than his blade, his size, or his skills, and all that Kjell once knew has shifted and changed. He is no longer simply Kjell of Jeru, a warrior defending the crown. Now he is a healer, one of the Gifted, and a man completely at odds with his power.

Bayr of Saylok, bastard son of a powerful and jealous chieftain, is haunted by the curse once leveled by his dying mother. Bartered, abandoned, and rarely loved, she plagued the land with her words: From this day forward, there will be no daughters in Saylok. Raised among the Keepers at Temple Hill, Bayr is gifted with inhuman strength. But he’s also blessed with an all-too-human heart that beats with one purpose: to protect Alba, the first girl child born in nearly two decades and the salvation for a country at risk.

An insidious curse is weakening the Norse kingdom of Saylok, where no daughters have been born in years. Washing up on these plagued shores is Ghisla, an orphaned stowaway nursed back to health by Hod, a blind cave dweller. Named for a mysterious god, Hod is surrounded by prophecy. To Ghisla, he’s a cherished new friend, but to Hod, the girl is much more. For when Ghisla sings, Hod can see.

Une terrible malédiction affaiblit depuis des années le royaume de Saylok où plus aucune fille ne naît. Alors quand une orpheline, Ghisla, échoue sur ces terres maudites, elle devient l'objet de toutes les convoitises. Hod, le jeune homme aveugle qui l'a recueillie, sait qu'il ne pourra pas la protéger, aussi lui propose-t-il de rejoindre la Colline du Temple où les dernières filles de l'île ont été rassemblées. Lié à Ghisla par une mystérieuse prophétie, il a l'intime conviction qu'ils ne seront jamais vraiment loin l'un de l'autre.

" On nous maltraite. On se sert de nous. On nous troque, on nous abandonne. Mais on ne nous aime que si rarement. Qu'il en soit ainsi. À compter de ce jour, plus aucune fille ne naîtra à Saylok. " Guerrière la plus féroce de son clan, Desdémone a toujours suscité l'admiration et l'envie des hommes de l'île de Saylok. Aussi, quand elle est reniée et abandonnée par Banruud, le chef du clan voisin et le père de son enfant à naître, la rage lui fait commettre l'irréparable.