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In exchange for help escaping her long and wrongful imprisonment, embittered magical healer Blackthorn has vowed to set aside her bid for vengeance against the man who destroyed all that she once held dear. Followed by a former prison mate, a silent hulk of a man named Grim, she travels north to Dalriada. There she'll live on the fringe of a mysterious forest, duty bound for seven years to assist anyone who asks for her help.

Oran, crown prince of Dalriada, has waited anxiously for the arrival of his future bride, Lady Flidais. He knows her only from a portrait and sweetly poetic correspondence that have convinced him Flidais is his destined true love. But Oran discovers letters can lie. For although his intended exactly resembles her portrait, her brutality upon arrival proves she is nothing like the sensitive woman of the letters.

With the strategic marriage imminent, Oran sees no way out of his dilemma. Word has spread that Blackthorn possesses a remarkable gift for solving knotty problems, so the prince asks her for help. To save Oran from his treacherous nuptials, Blackthorn and Grim will need all their resources: courage, ingenuity, leaps of deduction, and more than a little magic.

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. Casting a blight over the entire district, and impossible to drive out by ordinary means, it threatens both the safety and the sanity of all who live nearby. With no ready solutions to offer, the prince consults Blackthorn and Grim.

As Blackthorn and Grim begin to put the pieces of this puzzle together, it's apparent that a powerful adversary is working behind the scenes. Their quest is about to become a life and death struggle--a conflict in which even the closest of friends can find themselves on opposite sides.

Feather bright and feather fine, None shall harm this child of mine...

Healer Blackthorn knows all too well the rules of her bond to the fey: seek no vengeance, help any who ask, do only good. But after the recent ordeal she and her companion, Grim, have suffered, she knows she cannot let go of her quest to bring justice to the man who ruined her life.

Despite her personal struggles, Blackthorn agrees to help the princess of Dalriada in taking care of a troubled young girl who has recently been brought to court, while Grim is sent to the girl's home at Wolf Glen to aid her wealthy father with a strange task--repairing a broken-down house deep in the woods. It doesn't take Grim long to realize that everything in Wolf Glen is not as it seems--the place is full of perilous secrets and deadly lies...

Back at Winterfalls, the evil touch of Blackthorn's sworn enemy reopens old wounds and fuels her long-simmering passion for justice. With danger on two fronts, Blackthorn and Grim are faced with a heartbreaking choice--to stand once again by each other's side or to fight their battles alone...

You thought Big Brother was tough? Try Knife Edge - the reality TV show where wannabe knife fighters are the celebrities in a nation going to hell. Britain, tomorrow. The ultimate response to knife crime has been instituted by a bankrupt government: Duelling with knives has now been legalised. On Saturday nights, the nation sit down to watch the country's best fighters slash it out on prime time.

When a young boy with hoplophobia (the fear of weaponry) runs away from home, his father hires a former special forces agent to find him. With the help of the boy's psychiatrist, Josh Cumberland delves into the dark underbelly of the knife culture that has infected his country with no guarantee that the boy is even still alive....

This is Josh Cumberland: ex-special forces cyber specialist, grieving and enraged by what happened to his daughter, in need of action to put things right.

And this is his world: near-future Britain, climate catastrophe, a legalized knife culture, and now a rash of suicides: teenagers in groups of 13, killing themselves in Cutter Circles. But maybe these deaths are deliberate. Part of someone's plan. At the corrupt heart of the political establishment, malevolent technology has reached new heights - or depths.

Can Josh pull himself and everyone else back from the tipping-point?

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

Lincoln Blackthorne lives a quiet life in a quiet town - he's a tailor in Inverness, New Jersey, a place where nothing happens. Until it does.

There's a secret door out of Line's shop. It leads to a tunnel that leads to the cemetery and that always leads to adventure. Because for people who know the truth, Blackthorne is a treasure hunter and international soldier of fortune. Now, he's hunting for something worth more than a fortune: A talisman of reputedly arcane power - a playing card called

THE KING OF SATAN'S EYES

The search takes Linc around the world and to a place he would just as soon avoid: The place where his own deepest fears and nightmares lie in wait. The King of Satan's Eyes may be a playing card, but events prove that Lincoln Blackthorne is not involved in a game. The search is serious.

Deadly serious!

A PIECE OF TAIL

That's what Farren Upshire wants... well, actually, he wants the whole tail, taken from a legendary Arabian stallion called Knight.

The tail is a talisman with magic powers, among them some curative ones, and Upshire has some problems that need curing... an overabundance of pounds, among them.

When people need something, Inverness, New Jersey tailor Lincoln Blackthorne is the man they turn to and in turn Line generally gets them what they want. Sometimes-like every time he turns around - there's somebody else there trying to do Blackthorne out of what he's after... usually threatening bodily harm and more often than not attempting to make good on the threat.

From a very unreserved New Mexico Indian reservation to the frozen Yukon wastes where things heat up,

THE TAIL OF THE ARABIAN, KNIGHT

is an adventure that will keep you going and on the edge of your seat for far more than a thousand and one nights.

"HELLO, LINCOLN," SHE SAID, AND THREW THE KNIFE AT HIM...

Blackthorne was on vacation when they found him, and finding him in the wilds of Maine had taken work. Whatever they wanted from him must be important. And when people wanted important things from Lincoln Blackthorne you could be certain that danger would be part of the package. The other part of this package was an ancient wooden statuette, a figure of a Viking. The people who wanted it thought it had miraculous powers, powers strong enough to kill for. Linc didn't know about the miracles; all he could count on was that he would be the person others would want to kill.

Blackthorne didn't want to get involved... but they were trying to kill him already. Oh, well....

THEY'D DONE IT AGAIN!

As Lincoln Blackthorne looked at the knife that had just missed his head, he began to wonder how people always seemed to know where he was going to be before he even thought of going there. But he couldn't spend too much time worrying about that right now...

Blackthorne was looking for a set of fangs carved out of ruby and connected with an ivory bridge. A lovely, if strange, artifact. Legend had it that the fangs had once belonged to a Rumanian named Viad Tepes, otherwise known as Dracula. Linc couldn't care less about legends and vampires, though. All he wanted to do was find the fangs--before some of his friends wound up dead.

Or before the next knife didn't miss...

As they make preparations for Christmas, four fey sisters are drawn ever further from the familiar world of contemporary London and their Somerset home, from motorways, fashion design and music, into darker realms where no one is who they seem and nothing is to be trusted.

When Serena's latest collection is mysteriously shredded on the eve of fashion week, the arrival of a wealthy benefactor seems a godsend, but is he all he seems? And what of the green-skinned girl Bee takes in after finding her cowering in a churchyard? How are these connected to the magpie changeling (who claims to be an angel) sent to watch over Stella or the timeslips Luna is experiencing with ever greater frequency now that she's pregnant?

Something is coming for the Fallow sisters, for their friends and their lovers, but they have no idea what, and their mother Alys is no help as she's gone wandering again, though she did promise to return by Christmas, and December is already here...

In this sweeping sequel to the critically acclaimed Cold Iron--which NPR Books raved, "reminded me, pleasurably, of Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice series" -- the Kingdom of Eledore has fallen and Nel and Suvi lead a diaspora of their people to safety, but the magic that has kept the demon forces away is dwindling, and they must find a new way to protect themselves.

The Acrasian army has swept through Eledore, nearly massacring the entire race in fear and hatred of the magic they possess. This same magic is all that was keeping the demon incursion at bay, but now the great evil that was banished is seeping into the world. Watchers are formed to warn of any sightings of the demons, but little can be done if one encounters them in shadow or at night.

Meanwhile, Nels leads a precious few hundred survivors of Eledore through the wilds, hoping to find solace and rebuild their civilization while his twin sister, Suvi, seeks allies at sea.

There is hope, born in the ashes of this devastation--a hope that Eledorian magic can grow, but only if they survive.