Mostrando resultados por autor "Marc Secchia" en Todas las categorías

This collection includes A Dragon for Christmas, A Hatchling for Springtide, and A Fledgling for Summer's Rising.

Only Beautiful Fury Will Quench All Grief Blighted. Scorned. Crushed. With the loss of the First Egg, Aranya’s campaign to liberate the Island-World from tyranny has reached its nadir. Long are the memories of the Ancient Dragons, and depthless their enmity. The millennia-spanning rivalry between Fra’anior the Onyx and Dramagon the Red, played out through the lives and deeds of those sworn to their service, threatens global annihilation. The pyres of destruction burn unceasing. As fate thunders toward its finale, can the boldest of paws yet stay the looming calamity?From the ashes, one ...

The Storm is coming! The hegemony of Sylakia has been broken and freedom won, but at a shattering cost. Laid low by the vile Shapeshifter pox and Thoralian’s wiles, can Aranya rise again? For war sweeps Herimor at the touch of the Marshal’s evil claws, and he will stop at nothing to possess the ultimate power. Now, the race is on to find the First Egg of the Ancient Dragons. Accompanied by her friends Zuziana and Ardan, and the magnificent Land Dragon Leandrial, the Star Dragoness must dive deep in her new quest. Cross the uncrossable Rift-Storm to Herimor. Stop Thoralian. Crush his ...

A secret world under the Simiens, A witch bent on a terrible revenge, Beset by troubles on all sides, the very future of Sheba is threatened. Wounded. Staked out as lion-bait. Hunted for her powers, Shioni scours the mountains for the secret Valley of the Giants, and a way back to the tunnels of Fiuriel. Can she uncover these enigmas, plumbing the hidden worlds beneath the Simiens before Kalcha’s mighty Hyenas and the Nubian army destroy the Kingdom of Sheba, and all Shioni loves? For an orphan girl of unknown heritage, the stakes have never been higher. Released from slavery into service...

Singer of Sea-Dragons. A terrible secret possesses her soul. Yet, the journey into darkness has barely begun. For the powers of nightsong, of dread and terror and pain, have laid claim upon the life-current of a girl with a matchless gift. ’Twas the current of terror we sailed that daysong, Like a Sea-Dragon’s heart was its pulse. >>>Myriad dangers lurk across the long leagues. Pirates. Treacherous Battlecats. A Hunter from the Deep and a city besieged by Sea-Dragons. The combative Bardsong of a mighty War-Titan–what are his wicked plans for her? With strength born of love, Zhialeiana...

Two Outcasts United By Fate. Two Terrible Secrets. One Incredible Destiny. As war convulses the ancient realm of Wyldaroon, powerful Dragon Marshals rush to choose sides in the sweeping conflict between Aranya the Star Dragoness and her nemesis, the unstoppable Marshal Thoralian. Islands fall. Nations crumble. Predatory Shapeshifters swoop to snatch the spoils from amidst the devastation. When Asturbar, a hard-bitten Infantry Commander of the Mistral Fires, is forced into a desperate act of thievery to deny Azhukazi the Necromancer Dragon the magical artefacts he covets, he unleashes an ...

Ride to battle with Shioni and her friends in the epic climax to the Shioni of Sheba series! A vast peril splits the Simien Mountains asunder, An ancient and diabolical foe, Can Shioni unite her nation to stand against? The storm of storms is rising. Returned in haste to the beleaguered Kingdom of Sheba, Shioni must unite Sheba and its allies, for the insatiable hatred of the Annihilator of Nations is tearing the mountains apart. No cage and no magic will hold him now. His breath is pestilence. The touch of his claw, death. And his name is Belshalar, the most ancient and malevolent Dragon ...

Here be Sea-Dragons and salty adventure ... be warned, wayfarer. Sail these waters at your peril! I sang to the Sea; She sang back to me, Tales and travails wreathed in mystery. Imagine an island world where the seas seethe with dangerous creatures, where those rare men and women called Bard-Navigators have learned to sing Whales to protect their ships. Only on the wings of Bardsong can ships avoid the Sea-Dragons and travel the great gulf between the Atolls scattered across the World-Sea. >>>Her Song Can Move The Sea, But She Hides A Dark Secret Zhialeiana has an astonishing gift of song. ...

A Dragoness must take wing. Elven ambitions regarding the new Dragon in the jungles collide with Keir and Storm's desire to keep their bond intact. As politics in the Elven Council threaten civil war, and the growing Dragoness' needs multiply, tough choices need to be made - or will those choices be made for them? Join Keir and Auroral Storm Diamond in the next mucky, thrilling, hair-raising adventure as they pursue their goal of staying alive to become Dragon and Rider. Friends new and old join them for an unforgettable journey beneath the Elven jungles to the canyon land of the Giants. ...

Who is the Beauty and who is the Beast? Cindrelline is a celebrated beauty who suffers from an appalling affliction, the price of her ancestor’s ill-fated dealings with a Necromancer. The cursed blood of a slain Dragon which runs in her veins has already claimed the lives of her parents and many relatives. Now, Aunt Gretelline has her claws on the family fortune and she has Cindrelline’s medical treatment … well in hand. Is Cindrelline the accursed Beast? Or the scheming aunt? Or is it the one who publicly humiliates her that night of the Royal Ball, who offers her life as payment to ...

“One breathless afternoon in Addis Ababa, Mister Drainpipe waited in ambush.” Homeless, alone, haunted by the shadows of the past, Mister Drainpipe is a beggar cast adrift on the streets of Addis Ababa. He ekes out life inside a concrete drain, atop a pile of rubbish. His fragile world is about to implode. A man who has lost everything, can still lose his soul. By turns wrenching and savagely beautiful, this powerful, uplifting tale of life on African streets is set against the backdrop of recent events in Ethiopia. Mister Drainpipe’s struggles with homelessness, loss and mental ...

The war to decide Santaclaws’ fate has begun. United at last, the Giant nation marches to war. The Humans hole up in the Amarinthian Bulwark, desperate to hold off the Certanshi invaders until help arrives – help they pray for. Trapped in the middle of a war that will embroil and endanger all they love, Keir and Storm, the Diamond Dragoness, must fight for their future. If Santaclaws is lost, there will be no future at all. From worlds apart, the enemy reveals his hand. A dark presence rises in the swamps. The Reavers gather in numbers at the portals of Tyanbran, ready to unleash ...

Humanity makes its last stand. Having unleashed their ultimate weapon, the enemy armada drives the Humans and their Elven and Giant allies deep into the Amarinthian Bulwark. Surrounded and overmatched, the survivors take refuge in the Halls of the Dragon Kings, praying for a miracle. A true Christmas miracle. Can hope rise from the ashes, sprung from the extraordinary bond between a Diamond Dragoness and her half-Elf Rider? As Keir and Auroral Storm Diamond race against time to unravel the mystery of Santaclaws’ last moments, their friends and families fight for their lives, for their ...

When strength fails, will love prevail? Betrayed. Hunted by the Whales for the power of her Song. Snatched away from all she holds dear, Zhialeiana must journey to the farthest shores of the World-Sea, where she will confront the ultimate power of the age, the Sea-Witch and her draconic minions. Forsaking all else to the farewell of life-currents, My soul’s boundaries expanded, My grief ne’er sweeter, Thus, we parted. >>>Many dark secrets swirl within the life-current of a girl with the power to touch souls. Legends will rise. The darkness will resist. Ten thousand leagues of ...

Trapped in a car wreck, crushed by a train. In seconds, Zaranna's world is torn apart and she must start life anew, as a survivor. A double amputee. Yet why does this promising equestrienne remember a flash of sulphurous fire, and a crimson paw hurling her mother's car onto the train tracks? Why does a tide of beguiling butterflies flood her increasingly chaotic dreams? As Zaranna Inglewood adjusts to life minus legs, plus gorgeous Alex, the paramedic who cut her body from the wreckage, she learns the terror of being hunted.

Keir thinks he knows about bad luck. His elven mother is dying of a wasting disease. His human father, severely injured in the war, struggles to walk. A brutal Winterfall clasps his mountainous kingdom in talons of ice. The people are starving. His family, his little sisters, depend on him to see them to Dragonmas Day. They need a miracle. But who believes in miracles anymore?

In the third book of the Santaclaws series, A Fledgling for Summer's Rising, Keir and his family dive into the supposed safety of the mighty elven jungles. But even here, new dangers wait. Greedy eyes hunger for a dragoness of diamond born. Travelling into the sacred heart of the jungles, Keir seeks vital clues that will keep him and Storm alive.

True to Keir's fears, the enemy is not slow to respond to a dragon hatchling's birth. Certanshi assassins close in on his family, but they are not the only ones who want the elves of Amarinthe and his scaly diamond miracle dead and buried in the snows. The ill-prepared elves must flee through snow and winter storm to the safety of the Arabaxa Jungles. Keir leads the way through the heart of the mountains, beneath the Dragon Kings peaks, into the lair of Santaclaws himself - but many dangers lie in wait.

When Shioni, slave to the Princess of Sheba, travels to the legendary Simien Mountains of Ethiopia, she encounters adventure beyond her wildest dreams. Little does she imagine the powerful forces lurking in this jagged volcanic wilderness; forces that could tear the Kingdom of Sheba apart. Kalcha, the Wasabi leader, has prepared a deadly trap, an evil sorcery rooted within the castle the King has chosen for his fortress. Kalcha is massing her warriors and her giant hyenas, intent on annihilating the Sheban forces.

As a slave-girl's freedom beckons, a dark assassin infiltrates Castle Hiwot. Shioni lays her life on the line for her best friend, the Princess of West Sheba, but finds herself catapulted into an adventure in a faraway world - the Fiuri Realms. A deadly plot unfolds as Shioni battles to confront the evil Fiuri magician Tazaka. Can Shioni unravel Tazaka's plans for the Fiuri in time to save her friend Azurelle from a terrible fate?