Brave swordsman Nico, now in his fifties, has been married to sorceress Veras for twenty years, their daughter, Justice now sixteen. His thoughts are often with his daughter as she develops her sword and archery skills. But when tragedy strikes, his life is changed forever. While Nico struggles, his daughter finds that she has inherited a great deal of her mother’s magic. This magic is very strong, and she requires the aid of Superior Sorcerer Xyron to learn to manage it. While the family is challenged with their own struggles, trespassers enter the City of Espri from Queen Brillianna’s neighbouring realm, with a plan to expand their own territory into this one. As armies cross the border river into King Yurmar’s land, Queen Brillianna’s sorceress uses sinister spells to render Yurmar’s people helpless. The finest practitioners of magic are sent to battle this strange power, including the palace sorcerer Wystan, Superior Xyron, Justice, Giever, Aislinn, and Creda. Joining them are warriors Joul Zann, Ferren, and Nico’s son Aldred. However, King Yurmar has asked Nico to remain in the city. But Nico has had a dream. In it, it is his fate to save Justice’s life as she battles Brillianna’s sorceress. Will he remain behind? Or will he lose his own life to save his daughter’s?
No man can defeat him! The prophecy states that "no man can defeat the warlock". How can the brave and strong swordsman Nico possibly help the novice sorceress Creda and her instructor Veras to overcome this tyrant, whose powerful magic exceeds their own? Destruction has been found close--too close--to the city. The little band of warriors--Joul and Ferren of the king's army, Creda, Veras and two youths--must find a way to stop the warlock's exploitation and destruction. Their only hope is to find the three segments of the warlock's shattered talisman to somehow use these against him. But finding each of these poses three unique and puzzling challenges, in places they've never been before . . . On the Trail of the Ruthless Warlock.
As a swordsman, Nico has battled many enemies over the years and met formidable challenges, but what good are his warrior skills when it comes to fighting against illness? Like many others, he and his wife and daughter have no choice but to flee the plague, heading north to his homeland. Along the way, they face many dangers and uncertainties, but they also find an old friend who is fleeing with his family. Their other friends, the sorcerers Xyron and Giever, as well as the Witch, Creda, are heading north to avoid the plague after trying in vain to find a way to stop the disease and help the people. Back in the sorcerers’ Tower, the sorceress Aislin finds a possible solution to stop this terrible threat. However, putting her plan into action could place her entire future in jeopardy.
In On the Trail of the Ruthless Warlock, a band of warriors and two sorceresses—with advice from the Witch of the Great East Wood—joined forces to battle a powerful warlock. Now they are called to a new quest when sorceress Veras senses something strange; tears in the wind. The Witch needs their help! With her new husband the swordsman Nico and the sorceress Creda, she and their warrior friends travel to the Great East Wood to face new challenges . . . a powerful force is trying to seize control of the weather! While they struggle against this force, Veras and Nico face their own challenges as they adjust to married life and Veras's surprise pregnancy, all of which is complicated by the presence of sorcerer Xyron—Veras's former lover. Can the group overcome their doubts and differences to find some way to protect the Great East Wood and the surrounding areas?
The On the Trail adventures continue in book four ... What seemed like a straightforward mission becomes an eerie mystery. All the king had ordered them to do was to follow the old map through the Noble Mountains to ensure its accuracy. It should have been a routine undertaking. But confusion builds as the practitioners of magic Veras, Creda, Xyron, and Giever, with the escort Ferren, Joul, Nico, and Aldred, find themselves in an area with its own unfamiliar and sinister sorcery. As they progress through challenges, Creda realizes that her own powers are changing, and their predicament might even be her fault. Worst of all, they begin to see that this sinister magic might be deliberately hindering their progress . . . and intending them harm. If they can’t find some way of dealing with the constant, continuing dangers from the mystical surroundings, the entire kingdom could be threatened.
Princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact" -- so said the nineteenth-century writer Walter Bagehot. In 2007, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, celebrate their sixtieth wedding anniversary. This love story of the world's most famous couple presents a thematic look at the most outstandingly successful marriage of recent times. This illustrated study explores the pressures and stresses of living life in the glare of public scrutiny. It is an early case of a married couple leading independent lives of extraordinary public service and indicating a path for others to follow. The historical experience of queens and their consorts and Elizabeth and Philip's Canadian and Commonwealth roles add scope to this biography.
The On the Trail adventures continue in book four ... What seemed like a straightforward mission becomes an eerie mystery. All the king had ordered them to do was to follow the old map through the Noble Mountains to ensure its accuracy. It should have been a routine undertaking. But confusion builds as the practitioners of magic Veras, Creda, Xyron, and Giever, with the escort Ferren, Joul, Nico, and Aldred, find themselves in an area with its own unfamiliar and sinister sorcery. As they progress through challenges, Creda realizes that her own powers are changing, and their predicament might even be her fault. Worst of all, they begin to see that this sinister magic might be deliberately hindering their progress . . . and intending them harm. If they can’t find some way of dealing with the constant, continuing dangers from the mystical surroundings, the entire kingdom could be threatened.
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