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The Return of the God-Queen. A year and a half has passed since the murder of Princess Yendra by her brother Montieth. With the Prince in jail, the City of the Aurelians has been at peace. Only one thing can disturb the tranquility of the City - the former all-powerful God-Queen. Hiding in Port Sanders under an alias, the former tyrant craves a life of luxury and quiet, but when the rest of the City discovers her identity, she realises tha...

For six months, the lands of the massacred Scythe tribe have lain empty and desolate, then, one crisp winter's morning, the red sky crackles and forty thousand survivors of the Lostwell Catastrophe appear, along with a dozen dragons, and one Holdfast...While King Daniel struggles to reform the City, Queen Emily dreams of recapturing the lost town of Jezra on the Western Bank. When the Lostwell Exiles arrive, she realises that she may have foun...

The Holdfasts of Lostwell are scattered. Sable, injured by Belinda, hides among the wild dragons of the Catacombs, while they plot to drive her and Maddie out. Taken by the former God-Queen of Tara, Kelsey faces a life in captivity, alongside Aila, while Corthie lies sick and broken - his dreams of destiny in tatters, his hopes in ruins. All that stands between the Ascendants and victory is Belinda, who faces her own struggles as she attem...

Following his victory at the Falls of Iron, the champion Corthie Holdfast starts to believe he has a destiny. He is the chosen one, the hero who will defeat the Ascendants, and end their tyrannical rule of Lostwell. As the Black Dragon tries to assemble an army from the wild and outlaw dragons of the Catacombs, the Gods of Implacatus plan their revenge, sending two Ascendants to regain control of Lostwell. Their mission - to find the fable...

Lostwell - a dying world of volcanos, earthquakes, endless wastes and wild dragons.For Corthie and Aila, Lostwell is a stepping stone to the home of the Holdfasts, and for Blackrose and Maddie it is the way to Dragon Eyre. But for Belinda, Lostwell means something else - the land where she once ruled as Queen.Within the sanctuary of the Falls of Iron, the exiles from the city of Pella and Tara make their plans, but unknown to them, on Implacat...

The nightmare has begun... but where is the Black Dragon?After a thousand years, the Eternal Enemy has breached the Great Walls, devastating great swathes of the City. Thousands lie dead, while the survivors huddle behind the old and decaying walls of the inner defences.With the greenhides on one side, and the corrupt and cruel regime of the ruling Gods on the other, the people of the City await their end.All that stands in the way is a disgra...

A Champion in chains, a Demigod in hiding and a Dragon betrayed.The new Prince of Tara rules the City of the Eternal Siege and nothing will get in his way - all must kneel before him or die.But what is power without the woman he desires? For three hundred years, the Prince has longed for Aila, wanting her as his bride.Now that the City is in his hands, he will do anything to possess her, even if it means plunging the City into a new Civil War....

A city ruled by Gods, a mortal champion, a misfit girl and a disobedient dragon...Stolen from his home, Corthie Holdfast has arrived in the City of the Eternal Siege as a new Champion.He must fight alongside the Blades, whose lives are dedicated to the defence of the City against the hordes of monstrous Greenhides, or die at the hands of the Gods who rule.Maddie Jackdaw, a young Blade, faces her last chance. Thrown out of every unit defending ...

With the empire in full retreat, the agents of the Renegade Gods hunt for the dream mage and her family.As the only mage capable of stopping the gods from destroying her world, Karalyn faces a terrible choice - continue to hide away, or leave her loved ones and take the fight to the enemy.The Holdfasts - the most powerful family of mages in the Star Continent - are scattered and beaten.Keir is in retreat, while Corthie and Kelsey are missing, ...

Keir and Thorn: Fire and DeathTwo young rebel mages hold the future of the world in their hands. Together, they are all that is keeping the invading Rahain from overwhelming the empire.As the Archmages renew their assault upon the world, can the Soulwitch and the Stormwitch step up to fill the gap in the empire's defences, or will their own ambitions and lust for power send them on a different course?Burdened by grief and guilt, Karalyn and Le...

The War of Vengeance has begun, the Rahain have invaded the Empire, and the fate of the world hangs in the balance.Keir Holdfast, elder son of Daphne and Killop, is always in trouble. Already an accomplished vision mage at 16, his life is turned upside down with the news that he also shares the same powers as his aunt, the infamous fire mage who brought down the old empire.Can he learn how to harness his powers in service of the new empire, or...

The Empire has lived in peace for 16 years, but trouble is brewing behind the Grey Mountains, where the renegade nation of Rahain prepares, arming itself for a long-awaited war of vengeance.Karalyn, the 18 year old daughter of two war heroes, is trying to find a place for herself in the world. Her own powers were deemed so dangerous she spent much of her childhood in exile.Now, the lure of the Imperial Capital and the prospect of service to th...

Daphne Holdfast is a young captain assigned to defend an isolated fort far behind enemy lines.Promoted due to her family's connections and mistrusted by the garrison's officers, Daphne must find the strength to unite her troops and repel the advancing enemy hordes.She has one advantage - she is an elite vision mage, endowed with supreme fighting skills.Can Daphne learn to master her growing powers before the enemy attack?Or will her first comm...

The four highland clans have fought each other for as long as history remembers.Killop & Keira, the twins of fire have grown up amid constant tribal warfare, each destined to become the champions of their clan.As Keira's powers have grown, so too have her people's expectations of her.When their homeland is invaded in an overwhelming attack aimed at the destruction of their culture and the enslavement of their families, together can they unite ...

On the run - again.Branded an enemy by the Church and Emperor, Daphne Holdfast is forced to flee the Imperial City with her young daughter Karalyn, whose own mage powers are now beginning to reveal themselves.They intend to travel to Rahain, a land in turmoil following the devastating invasion and occupation by Alliance forces. With Holdings missionaries converting the newly-freed Rahain masses, and the overthrown aristocrats fomenting rebelli...

A God - lost in his own creation.Endowed with the power of the five mage-lines, the God-Emperor cuts his way through the Star Continent, destroying everything in his path in order to gather the last of the surviving mages.At the other end of the world a great fire mage sits in a tavern drinking whisky. Having fought the Emperor once before and lost, Keira is home at last. Forsaking her powers, she wants nothing more to do with the troubles of ...

It's time for someone to pay. Keira lies shackled and alone, surrounded by soldiers while the smoke rises from the poisoned ruins of the city she was forced to destroy.Condemned as a war criminal by the King of the Holdings and reviled by the rest of the world, she is a prize weapon - a tool in the hands of her Rahain captors.But no more.Keira knows she must escape… …or die trying.Killop has escaped the dungeons of the Rahain and fled into the...

Would you kill for your sister?High Mage Shella has a choice to make.When her sister decides she wants to be Queen at any cost, should she help her?Or stop her?Feeling restless in the claustrophobic and over-crowded metropolis of her birth, Shella is drawn to the power of her sister's voice as she assembles thousands of their people, calling upon them to gather their possessions and follow her in a Great Migration.Her sister plans to lead them...

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The Beat Generation questioned mid-twentieth century America and sought the margins of society. This book analyzes the literature and lifestyles of the Beat authors Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg in regard to Victor Turner's anthropological studies. The Beats separated from society by willingly entering the rites of passage. Liminal symbolism is apparent in their literature such as in movement, time, space, pilgrimages,...