Im Königreich Crotheny bedrohen Dämonen die Wälder, Intrigen erschüttern den Hof und die Kirche praktiziert verbotene Magie. Der Frieden steht auf der Kippe, als der uralte Dornenkönig, ein Todesbote, aus seinem langen Schlaf erwacht.
Royaumes d'Épines et d'OsSéries
Cette saga de fantasy épique plonge dans un monde où le mal ancestral s'agite et où les ombres du passé menacent le présent. Suivez les destins entrelacés de personnages divers, des guerriers féroces aux nobles énigmatiques, alors que leurs chemins se croisent dans une lutte contre des forces malveillantes. Découvrez une tapisserie complexe d'intrigues, de magie et de périls, où chaque action pourrait déterminer le sort d'un royaume entier. Plongez dans un récit de courage, de sacrifice et de retournements inattendus.
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The Briar King
- 552pages
- 20 heures de lecture
In the kingdom of Crotheny, two young girls play in the tangled gardens of the sacred city of the dead where, fleeing an imaginary attacker, they discover the unknown crypt of a legendary, ancestral queen. In the wilds of the forest, while investigating the mass slaughter of an innocent family, the king's forester comes face-to-face with a monstrous beast found only in folk tales and nightmares. Meanwhile, travelling the same road, a scholarly young priest begins his education in the nature of the evil that festers just beneath the surface of a seemingly peaceful realm. For the royal family is facing a betrayal that only sorcery can accomplish. And now, for three beautiful sisters, for a young man elevated to knighthood, and for for countless others, a darkness is emerging to shatter all that once seemed certain, familiar, and good. Numerous separate destinies will become entangled as malevolent forces stalk the land -- and the Briar King, that primeval harbinger of death, has awakened from his slumber.
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The Charnel Prince
- 650pages
- 23 heures de lecture
The second book in a dazzling four-volume fantasy epic of war and virtue, sorcery and betrayal
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Ein High-Fantasy-Epos voller dunkler Magie und mythischer Kreaturen. Anne Dare kämpft gegen die Belagerung ihres wahnsinnigen Onkels, um ihren Thron zurückzugewinnen. Sie nutzt gefährliche magische Mittel, während neue Monster und ein rachedurstiger Komponist mit uralter Musik das Land bedrohen.
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The Blood Knight
- 650pages
- 23 heures de lecture
'Something was coming for her. It began as an insect, but it grew, its many eyes fastened greedily on her. Something had followed her back. But back from where? Where was that place of dark waters?' A season of darkness and horror has fallen upon the Kingdom of Crotheny. Now countless breeds of unspeakable monsters roam the countryside. After her husband's murder, Queen Muriele finds herself at the mercy of Robert Dare who plans a strategic marriage for his hostage to secure his own power in Crotheny. Muriele’s fiancée is Berimund Reiksbaurg, heir to the throne of Hansa and descendant of the legendary Blood Knight, who once drank the blood of a waurm to gain the beast’s power. But will Dare's plans really work out even? Meanwhile, Princess Anne awakes from a deep, trancelike sleep after a bloodthirsty battle with the monsters the Briar King has unleashed. Her guardian Sir Neil MeqVren and their escort are nowhere to be seen and Anne embarks on a perilous journey desperate to track down her travel companions. . . 'The best reinvention of the big fantasy epic since George R. R. Martin' Time Out
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The Born Queen
- 650pages
- 23 heures de lecture
The final volume of the epic masterwork concludes 'The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone' tetralogy.
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With the usurper Robert Dare having fled, Princess Anne has finally ascended to the throne to the Kingdom of Crothney, but it may already be too late to stop the approaching destruction.