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For generations the misty Shadowline has marked the boundary between the lands of men and the lost northern lands that are the lair of their inhuman enemies, the ageless Qar. But now that boundary line is moving outward, threatening to engulf the northernmost land in which humans still live - the kingdom of Southmarch.

A year ago, the March Kingdoms were at peace, and the Eddon family held the throne. Now the family has been shattered. King Olin Eddon is a prisoner in a faraway land, and Olin’s heir Kendrick is dead – slain by treachery and dark, bloody magic. With their father and brother taken from them, the royal twins Barrick and Briony have done their best to hold the kingdom together, but now Barrick has been captured in a failed war against the immortal Twilight People and Briony has been forced to flee.

Thousands of years ago the gods fought and fell in the deeps beneath what is now Southmarch Castle, then were banished into eternal sleep. Now at least one of them is stirring again, dreaming of vengeance against humankind....

Southmarch Castle is about to be caught between two implacable enemies, the ancient, immortal Qar and the insane god-king, the Autarch of Xis. Meanwhile, its two young defenders, the king’s children Princess Briony and Prince Barrick, are both trapped far away from home and fighting for their lives. Barrick is lost behind the Shadowline, facing all the terrible dangers and mysteries of that magical twilight land.

When Tyndal and Rondal, journeymen wizards and knights errant, travel to southern Alshar to rescue a helpless boy and his mother, it sets in motion a series of events that will shake the foundations of the Five Duchies! While they are beginning their quest against the vast criminal gang known as the Brotherhood of the Rat, the two knights encounter the Cats of Enultramar, a family of shadowmagi and high-class thieves who help them discover a plot to attack the rich lands and prosperous people of Alshar, from the Wilderlands to the Great Bay...and only Rondal and Tyndal can stop them.

More than 35 years ago, a young author surprised and enchanted audiences with his first novel - the story of Fritti Tailchaser, a courageous tom cat in a world of whiskery heroes and villains, of feline gods and strange, furless creatures called M'an.

"Hi, my name is Conor. Other than my father being a bit of an eccentric lunatic, my life was pretty normal until I got attacked in my living room and whisked away to Tir na Nog, the mystical land of the ancient Celts, where it turns out Dad is the usurped heir to the throne and everybody wants me dead because of some prophecy. Don't you just hate when that happens?" Shadowmagic is a rip-roaring fun fantasy adventure novel by John Lenahan very loosely based on Irish mythology where every chapter ends on the edge of a cliff (or at least a high curb.) Join Conor as he grapples with typical ...

On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing. Somebody had slit open the back of their tent and snatched her from under their noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into thin air, plucked by a shadow. As days stretched into weeks, and weeks into months, Special Agent Pete Dunbar attended a workshop at FBI Headquarters in Quantico, Virgina, led by two agents who had hatched a radical new idea: What if criminals left a psychological trail that would lead us to them?

The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks, and vampires. There, the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. As a Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah is a sworn keeper of the laws and lore of the Nephilim. But once he was a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs, and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray. And Jem is searching through the Shadow Markets, in many different cities over long years, for a relic from his past.

Vicar Obadiah Demurral isn't satisfied running the affairs of his village, now he wants to control the world. And if his plan works, he will obtain a weapon so powerful, even God and his angels will fall down at his feet. Demurral will stop at nothing, and as a shadowmancer (a sorcerer who speaks to the dead), he even commands restless souls to do his bidding.

Krieg und Frieden als großes Fantasy-Epos. Krieg zieht herauf. Die Elben, einst hinter der Schattengrenze im Norden zurückgezogen, treten aus dem Nebel heraus und wollen verlorene Gebiete zurückerobern. Aber auch der machtbesessene Autarch im Süden stellt Heere bereit und beide haben die Südmarkfeste zum Ziel.

Die beliebte Shadowmarch-Reihe geht weiter. Dunkelheit senkt sich auf die Südmark, als ein riesiges Elbenheer von jenseits der Schattengrenze auf die Burg zuschreitet. Den königlichen Zwillingen Barrick und Briony bleibt nur noch die Flucht in entgegengesetzte Richtungen. Während Barrick und Hauptmann Gerras hinter die Schattengrenze der grausamen Elben fliehen, schmiedet Briony mit ihrem Gefolgsmann Shaso Pläne, den Thron zurückzuerobern.

Das Land Eion wird bedroht. Von Norden überschreitet eine riesige Elbenarmee die Schattengrenze und im Süden schmiedet der machtbesessene Herrscher Eroberungspläne. Die königlichen Zwillinge müssen aus der Südmarkfeste fliehen, um ihr Leben zu retten. Während Prinz Barrick verloren hinter der Schattengrenze umherirrt und dem Elbenheer Einhalt gebieten muss, kämpft Prinzessin Briony allein in der Fremde um ihr Leben. Gelingt es den Geschwistern, den Thron zurückzuerobern? Und können sie Südmark und seine Völker vor dem Untergang bewahren?

Der Südmarkfeste droht Gefahr durch zwei unerbittliche Feinde, die uralten Elben der Nebellande und den verrückten Gottkönig Xis. Mittendrin die königlichen Zwillinge, die sich aus unterschiedlichen Richtungen wieder nach Südmark aufmachen. Prinzessin Briony hat ein kleines Heer um sich gesammelt und will die Südmarkfeste und ihren Vater befreien. Barrick hingegen kommt aus den Schattenlanden zurück, wo er mit den gefährlichen Elben Kontakt hatte.