For Nico s beloved sister, Maria, his loss fires her hatred for the knights who did nothing to save him and her dreams of escape from her stifling home. Renamed Asha, plotting his escape even as he swears allegiance to the god of his masters and is schooled in the arts of culture and war, the innocent boy will be transformed into one of the Sultan s deadliest commanders. For one of its sons, the hand of violence strikes swiftly, when young Nicolo Borg is seized by Barbary slavers and launched on a remarkable journey to the court of the supreme ruler of the Muslim world. John, Malta will become the stage upon which the fate of the world turns. The Mediterranean, the sixteenth century: Lying squarely in the midst of the vital sea lanes between the Christian West and the Ottoman Empire in the East, and ruled by the ancient Order of the Knights of St. Sweeping from the drawing rooms of Paris to the palace of Suleiman the Magnificent to the dark hold of a slave ship racing across the sea, here is a dazzling story of love and valor, innocence and identity, an epic novel of the clash of civilizations on a barren island where the future was forged. 1 Ironfire: An Epic Novel of Love and War By David Ball Ironfire: An Epic Novel of Love and War By David Ball From the acclaimed author of Empires of Sand comes a mesmerizing new adventure that Jean Auel cites as crowded with events that both forecast and mirror the conflicts of today.
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They need to find a way to form a healthy relationship and at the same time, heal each other. first four intensely sensual Crossfire novels: Bared to You, Reflected in You, Entwined with You, and Captivated by You. But she finds herself drawn to the young billionaire Gideon Cross, another survivor of childhood abuse. Eva comes from an abusive past and it haunts her. It all started with Bared to You in 2012 and finished with One With You in 2016. There are five books in the best selling series. Bared to You reached number 4 on Amazon’s list of bestselling book series in 2012, number 5 on iTunes’ Top Ten Books of the Year, and number 7 on Bookscan’s Top 10 Print Book Sales of 2012 – Adult Fiction. We love Gideon and Eva so much here! But don’t just take our word for how amazing it is. Sylvia Day’s insanely popular Crossfire series is a personal favorite. Gideon and Eva’s characters are so broken but so strong. So, check them out now! The Crossfire Series Crossfire By Sylvia Day Series 7 Mb size Download book Read book Let’s start with the most annoying thing about this book series, shall we (Few spoilers ahead) Too much sex/Not Enough Plot In my honest opinion, The Crossfire series had the potential to be a really good series. It’ll feel like you’re sitting in a burning room when reading Day’s books (yes, her books are that hot), only much more pleasurable. Day has 35 books, each as hot as the last. Sylvia Day is best known for her exceptional Crossfire series, but that’s not her only steamy collection. The magical liquid stops the decaying process for a short time. The Norns try to stop or slow this process by pouring mud and water from the Well of Urd over its branches. However, in Germanic mythology, the Greek and Roman concept of the Fates spinning an individual length of yarn for each mortal life does not appear.Īccording to Norse mythology, nothing lasts forever, and even the great Yggdrasill has been said to decay one day. It would seem more than possible that the Norns were also originally conceived as spinners. For instance, in Shakespeare's tragic play Macbeth, the Three Sisters on "the blasted heath" were obviously inspired by the Norns and other mythological fate goddesses. The Anglo-Saxons referred to Urd by the name of Wyrd, and in England there was maintained a belief in the tremendous powers of the three sisters long after the arrival of Christianity. It was believed that the Norns decided the destinies of gods, giants, and dwarfs, and were responsible for the fates of every individual human being. Passing through Athens, Xena, the Warrior Princess, and her apprentice, the bard Gabrielle, are just in time for the women’s foot races-in which the legendary hunter, Atalanta, will be running. But will that be enough to defeat the warlord Draco and his thugs? With only their intellect and the weapons they carry, Xena and Gabrielle set out to free Ithaca from its invaders. Yet the throne of Ithaca sits empty, waiting for the return of its ruler, Odysseus, and the realm is overrun by gangs of armed bandits determined to claim the kingdom and its queen for their own. In the years after the Trojan War, as warriors and kings travel the ancient world returning to their homes, Xena, the Warrior Princess, and her apprentice, the bard Gabrielle, travel to Ithaca on a mission for the king of Sparta. Haunted by her troubled and violent past, Xena, the Warrior Princess, now travels the ancient world with her trusted companion, the bard Gabrielle, defending the innocent and protecting the honourable. Then Marcus is forced to pay the price for someone else’s lies as the mystery around Ellie’s disappearance starts to become horribly clear. But something isn’t right about this stranger, and Jackie’s suspicions about the new girl’s secrets only drive the wedge deeper between Jackie and Marcus. The plan is to fall out of love, and, just as she hoped he would, Marcus falls for the new girl in town. Swamped with guilt and the knowledge that acting on her love for Marcus would tear their families apart, Jackie pushes her cousin away. Now Ellie has been missing for months, and the police, fearing the worst, are searching for her body. Her friendship with him has turned into something she can’t control, and he’s the reason Jackie lost track of her best friend, Ellie, who left for…no one knows where. Ever since Jackie moved to her uncle’s sleepy farming town, she’s been flirting way too much - and with her own cousin, Marcus. |