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Five Winters have passed since young king Bridei ascended the throne of Fortriu. Five years, in which the people have felt a contentment unknown for generations. But the security of a people can vanish in a heartbeat, for wolves are often drawn to fields filled with fattened sheep. Bridei is determined to drive the Gaelic invaders from his lands once and for all. And so, with his land secure and his house in order, he prepares for war. One of Bridei's plans to win the war to come involves the beautiful young Ana. A princess of the Light Isles, she has dwelt as a hostage at the court of Fortriu for most of her young life.

Disillusioned healer Blackthorn and her companion, Grim, have settled in Dalriada to wait out the seven years of Blackthorn's bond to her fey mentor, hoping to avoid any dire challenges. But trouble has a way of seeking out Blackthorn and Grim. Lady Geiléis, a noblewoman from the northern border, has asked for the prince of Dalriada's help in expelling a howling creature from an old tower on her land - one surrounded by an impenetrable hedge of thorns.

Thorvald, the young son of Margaret, widow of the slain king, has always felt apart and at odds with all he knows. He learns upon his coming to manhood he is not his father's son, but that of the love Margaret bore for the hated Somerled, and that Somerled was not killed for his treachery but sent on a boat, adrift with little more than a knife and skein of water, doomed to the gods' will. Thorvald is determined to find a boat and cast off to the West in a desperate bid to find a father he never knew...and to find out if he is made of the same stuff as the henious traitor.

From what we have relearned in recent history about the way magnetism, gravity, centrifugal and centripetal force, as well as the many other forces one giant body exerts upon another, we know the medievalists had it right all along. When the moon gets too close and too bright, it makes us crazy. In that spirit, editor Lancelot Schaubert rounded up sci-fi and fantasy writers Anne Greenwood Brown, Juliet Marillier, LJ Cohen, Anthony G. Cirilla, FC Shultz, and Emily Munro to write about cosmic influence.

Irland im 9. Jahrhundert nach Christi: Keltische Stammesfürsten verteidigen ihr Land gegen den Ansturm der Briten...

Abgeschieden von den Menschen ist die junge Fainne von ihrem Vater aufgezogen worden - und zu einer machtvollen Zauberin herangewachsen...

Die Kräuterkundige Liadan besitzt eine besondere Gabe: Sie kann nicht nur den Körper heilen, sondern auch den Geist und die Seele...

Irland im 9. Jahrhundert: Auf der Hochzeit ihrer Schwester begegnet die junge Clodagh zwei Männern, die ihr bisher so ruhiges Leben verändern...

Mit dem nordischen Märchen östlich der Sonne und westlich des Mondes als Inspiration webt Juliet Marillier eine magische Geschichte über die Suche einer jungen Prinzessin nach ihrem wahren Selbst. Hulde ist die Tochter einer Königin und lebt in einem Palast. Aber ihr Leben ist einsam. Auf dem Glasberg aufgewachsen, kennt sie nur ihre gewalttätige und autokratische Mutter und einen Haushalt von verängstigten Dienern. Dann kommt ein weißer Bär namens Rune zu Besuch und Hulde lernt, was Freundlichkeit ist. Aber die Königin hat einen Plan für Hulde.