Marie Andreas

More enemies, more tricks, more explosions Once again, Taryn has her hands full-but sometimes her hands have dragon's talons...Relic hunter Taryn St. Giles spent years with her head down in the dirt, unearthing the secrets of ancient artifacts. Now she is the one being hunted for the secrets of her own past. And if she's not clever, strong, and very, very lucky, she'll be the next relic buried.Monsters, magic, and mayhem have haunted her through secret caverns, forgotten elven cities, and some really mediocre taverns. With her beloved Alric and dear friends kidnapped, she's heading to the southern continent with her remaining stalwart companions where more mayhem awaits-along with stranger monsters and a deadly magic that twists her very flesh and bones.Old mysteries almost destroyed her world once-and Taryn was right there. As long-lost deities and hidden realms return with lethal consequences, she has another chance to discover her destiny and reclaim her power. But if she fails, more than her friends will be lost forever.Join the continuing adventures from the Lost Ancients series

You have begun your Challenge. Be fleet of mind, gentle of foot, and strong of heart. Blessings of the oracles be upon you.So begins the Challenge that every royal in Astarious has had to complete to be able to be declared an heir to the throne.It must be begun before their twenty-first birthday and they can't be told of prior Challenges.Piallen has waited impatiently through her two older sister's Challenges. Waiting for the day that she would not only face her own, but be able to hear their stories.Piallen prefers training with sword and bow out in the woods over anything that takes place indoors. Her excitement at her impeding Challenge is based more on being able to prove her skills worthy, than any real love of wanting to be declared heir. She has a feeling that being an heir will involve a lot more indoor time whether she wants it or not.A shocking betrayal and attack from within the palace itself throw all of the careful preparations for her Challenge off and reveals unknown secrets about Piallen and the mysterious magic leak she's had since she was a child.Fighting off the attackers, she finds herself pulled into a strange land by a powerful and attractive sword wielding mage-but it wasn't from the oracles.After a rousing sword fight, she, the mage, and her grigeen companion find themselves flung into another land. One where former allies turned enemies are mounting a massive attack.To destroy Astarious.

The Challenge is faced all royals of Astarious who would seek to rule the kingdom. Before their twenty-first birthday they must submit to the will of the oracles to be sent on an unknown adventure.The oracles created the Challenge to make certain the new royals were strong and wise enough to rule the kingdom when they return. If they return.As the second royal daughter, Nevaine already saw the results of one Challenge-her older sister, Lizeth.However, unlike her older sister, Nevaine had no master life plan, nor a goal of ruling the land. She would much rather stay home and read-or work on her formidable knife skills. She wasn't even certain that she wanted to rule the kingdom.Two days before her Challenge begins, her boyfriend suddenly vanishes, leaving a cryptic note behind-one about another woman. Hurt and furious, Nevaine first refuses to believe anything good about him, but evidence grows that he might have been taken to throw off her Challenge.Portals and foul magic invade the kingdom. And when Nevaine is kidnapped to keep her from leaving on her Challenge, she realizes there is far more at stake than her right to be declared an heir to the kingdom.She finds herself in a distant land with her grigeen companion and surprisingly, her semi-ex-boyfriend. He's not who she thought he was and his lies could prove fatal for them all.

In the lovely land of Astarious, the Challenge marks all royals who would seek to rule the kingdom. Before their twenty-first birthday they must submit to the will of the oracles to be sent on an adventure.Most of the time, they return from their Challenge stronger, wiser, and far more experienced than when they left. Sometimes they come back broken in body or mind.Sometimes they don't come back at all. As the eldest of three royal sisters and the most powerful spell singer in generations, Princess Lizeth has her fortunate life all planned out: claim her place as heir to the throne, choose a perfect man of royal blood as is the law, and someday ascend as queen.All she must do is pass her Challenge-a lonely, dangerous test of her magic, her ambition, and her very spirit.But before she can prove herself, Lizeth and her two sisters find themselves caught up in intrigue, mayhem, and an alarming number of dead bodies. With the king and queen gone on a vital diplomatic mission, Lizeth is determined to protect her family and her palace.Until the oracles of the Challenge whisk her away unexpectedly.Except she isn't alone. In contradiction of everything she's been told, she finds herself in a strange land with her animal companion plus an annoyingly mysterious-and annoyingly handsome-woodsman. And the Challenge isn't only hers: the fate of her someday kingdom and more may be at stake.The trio must discover why they've been summoned so far from home if they ever want to find their way back, and Lizeth must risk everything she holds dear-including her magic-without falling for the man fighting at her side.Her future has never been so uncertain. And it's not just her future...

Strange magics plucked Jenna from Earth to a new world and a new body, but now darker forces threaten the new life she's come to love. She risked everything to defend her kingdom and friends, struggling to channel chaotic Power to defeat a demonspawn king. They won that fight, but the war was only beginning.Now, one by one, the neighboring kingdoms are falling silent, under attack from monsters that shouldn't exist and from within their own people. The cuari who protect and guide this world have suddenly vanished, and the chaotic plane-the source of all magic-is failing.Jenna is in the body of a Guardian, channeling the voice of a long-lost god, and tasked with averting the coming apocalypse, but this time, magic and destiny might not save the day.Separated from Prince Corin-Storm, who she might love if she had a free moment-and seeking a missing magic book, she'll be hunted by deadly enemies and haunted by visions of what will happen if she fails while her friends are pushed the limits of their bravery and hope. If she can't figure out how to end the attacks, free the cuari, and save the chaotic plane, this world will fall-and so will all the others.

Vaslisha Tor Dain had a simple life as a mercenary captain. Then a bunch of murdering Asarla stepped up and made things messy.After a long recovery, she and most of her crew are ready to return to a nice, normal mercenary life of fighting where they are paid to fight instead of trying to save the Commonwealth.Things start to go off course when a mysterious ship comes far too close to her secret home planet. A ship that's been missing for over fifty years.Then invaders from outside the Commonwealth show way too much interest in Vas and her crew-the type of interest that leads to death.The crew finally gets a job, an undercover one outside the Commonwealth. Simple. Just find who has been stealing cargo from a major Commonwealth firm, get paid lots of money, and come back.Life in space is never simple.Now Vas has to deal with pirates, murderers, long dead nuns, and an invasion that looks to be heading for the Commonwealth.This time the Commonwealth alone isn't at risk-the entire Universe is.

New adventures beyond The Lost Ancients six book series Taryn, her drunken faeries, and most of her friends, survived the fight for the relics left behind by the missing people known as the Ancients. Now a new adventure awaits as they find there are deeper, older dangers loose in the world.Taryn just wants to have a normal life, hopefully with the love of her life and her crazed drunken faeries.Sadly, hoping doesn't always make it so.There are dangers moving up from the south, a kingdom far removed from Beccia and all Taryn knows. Hidden messages, deadly jewelry, and possessed weapons are all invading her dreams of normalcy.Too many people know who she really is. And they know how to use her as a weapon.Taryn and her friends have to figure out the clues before people start vanishing.And the faeries really had nothing to do with it.Really.If you miss the mayhem of the faeries-come back around for another ride

Not her world. Not her body. All her problems.When monstrous hounds chase Jenna Reilly into a ditch outside LA, she finds herself thrown into a world far stranger than Los Angeles -- and trapped in a body that isn't her own.The inhuman man who rescues her has been hunting monsters, and finding Jenna is a clue to a coming apocalypse. Forces of a lost evil from the past are coming back to reclaim their land. Over the centuries, a select group of people had been in place to stop that from ever happening.One of these was the woman whose body Jenna had been slammed into.Unfortunately, the body's previous owner had been brutally mind-sacrificed by the followers of the dark gods, leaving Jenna with no knowledge of how she was to stop the coming slaughter of the world she was now in.The uncontrolled magical powers that are growing inside her could save this world, or seal its fate in brutality and horror.

Vampires, mermaids, and tea Dr. Nettie Jones is an agent for The Society for the Exploration of the Unexplainable, a secret organization protecting England from various sources. She recently helped defend Mother England, and possibly the world, from an alien invasion.And she's half-vampire on her mother's side.While working in the London Society headquarters, Nettie becomes caught up in a new conspiracy--one coming from the ocean itself. Tracing the attacks to a small area in northern Wales, Nettie and the rest of the London contingent troop north to try and stop it before things get worse. Fairy tales tell of loving mermaids wishing to come to the land. The truth is far more brutal, and the mer-people want far more than just to come on land for a visit.

The final book in The Lost Ancients fantasy series.

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