Emily R. King

Una novela épica ambientada en la Antigua Grecia, llena de dioses, amor y traición Cronos, dios de dioses, reina implacable sobre la faz de la Tierra e impone su voluntad de manera violenta sobre las mujeres, cuyo único fin es servir. Pero la joven Altea Lambros se niega a aceptar ese destino. Está decidida a luchar por ser dueña de su propia vida y honrar a la promesa que le hizo a su madre en su lecho de muerte: cuidar de sus hermanas Cleora y Bronte. Cuando una de ellas es secuestrada por los soldados de Cronos, Altea emprenderá un viaje hacia la isla de Creta para intentar rescatarla.Allí deberá encontrar a la única persona que puede ayudarla a derrotar al tiránico Cronos y recuperar a su hermana. Entre las mujeres mortales que han conseguido huir de los titanes se oculta el joven y arrogante Zeus, el hijo del dios de dioses, a quien todos creían muerto hace tiempo.

A fierce young female adventurer battles time itself to claim her destiny in a sweeping new fantasy saga from the author of the Hundredth Queen series. Everley Donovan is living on borrowed time. The lone survivor of her family’s unexplained assassination, she was saved by an ingeniously crafted clockwork heart. But the time she was given won’t last forever. Now, every tick-tock reminds her how fragile her existence is and hastens her quest to expose Killian Markham, the navy admiral who shattered her world and left her for dead. But Everley’s hunt for justice will be a long and hard-won voyage. Her journey takes her to a penal colony on a cursed isle, where she will be married off and charged to build the new world. It is here, and beyond, that hidden realms hide, treasures are unearthed, her family secrets are buried, and young love will test the strength of her makeshift heart. When Everley discovers Markham may not be who he seems, her pursuit for truth is bound to his redemption, her tragic history, and her astonishing destiny.

Althea’s head is still spinning from her discovery that she’s Hera, daughter of Cronus, the terrible Titan king. After Althea failed to cast Cronus down into the deepest pit of Tartarus, the king calls upon his powerful allies, the elder Titans who reign supreme over the heavens, earth, and seas. To force Althea to surrender, the elder Titans rain down wrath upon the mortal world with earthquakes, famine, pestilence, hurricanes, and all manner of destruction. Lukas, Althea’s friend and confidant, hides her and her godly siblings, but they can’t run forever. She must recruit allies from the younger Titans before the afflicted mortals turn them into Cronus in exchange for peace. Poseidon and Hades are also in hiding. Althea sets out to find her brothers, but hunting them down without getting caught and persuading them to stand against their all-powerful father will be next to impossible. Althea has a lot to learn about her newly restored crown and Titaness powers. She must divide heaven and earth to protect her mortal home and friends and unite her brothers and sisters in the war to end all wars.

There’s a price on Everley Donovan’s head. Fleeing from the queen’s false accusation of murder and sorcery, the girl with the clock heart knows there’s only one way to prove her innocence. Everley must catch Killian Markham, the fugitive prince guilty of the crimes for which she’s been condemned. To do that, Everley must follow him into the towering realm of the Silver-Clouded Plain. It’s where flesh-eating Behemoths thrive, long-lost gods hide, and an artifact of destructive force awaits the death grip of the immortal prince. Haunted by visions of burning Everwoods and bloody battlefields, Everley’s fears are rising. Because the elusive relic threatens more than the very power that drives her clock heart. In Killian’s hands, it can lead to the dismantling of the seven worlds. With everything—and everyone—Everley loves at stake, she must depend on Killian’s one weakness to outwit him: in his mad ambitions, Killian has underestimated her once again. For Everley is the Time Bearer. This is her destiny. The time of reckoning is at hand.

In the second book in The Evermore Chronicles by Emily R. King, Everley Donovan plunges into the roiling waves of a strange new world to hunt a wicked prince who cheated time.Everley Donovan’s mission: retrieve the hallowed sword of Avelyn stolen by the wicked Prince Killian, who slayed her family and left her for dead. Should she fail, the seven worlds will come to an end, as could time itself. And no one treasures time more than Everley, whose lifesaving clock heart cannot beat forever. She has set sail with a rogue crew for the otherworlds, where the key to dethroning the prince lies deep within the Land Under the Wave.But passage through these unknown seas—where horrors lurk and pirates rove—proves a treacherous gamble. The Land Under the Wave was not made for humans, particularly one with a fragile clock heart. Here, Everley’s tragic past resurfaces unsolved questions. Here, too, the prince has hidden secrets more precious than pearls, secrets that could fracture the future forevermore. Everley must take back her sword and break free from this watery world before her time runs out…or so will everyone else’s.

Drugi tom magicznej serii o odważnej władczyni ognia! Kalinda niedawno odkryła swoją niezwykłą moc władania ogniem. Jako setna wybranka radży Tarka musiała zmierzyć się z jego pozostałymi żonami i kurtyzanami. Jednak krwawy turniej i śmierć tyrana były jedynie początkiem jej problemów. Razem z kapitanem Davenem musi uciekać z miasta opanowanego przez rebeliantów. Ich szansą na ratunek jest syn radży, książę Ashwin. Najpierw jednak Kalinda musi udowodnić mu swoją wartość, stając do walki z trzema potężnymi rywalkami. Kapitan Daven zaczyna obawiać się mocy, które drzemią w dziewczynie, a książę wydaje się nimi zafascynowany. Tak jak kobietą, która nimi włada. Czy Kalinda zjednoczy imperium, nie poświęcając wszystkiego, co bliskie jej sercu?

Chciał wojowniczej królowej. Dostał rewolucjonistkę. Osiemnastoletnia Kalinda jest sierotą wychowaną w zakonie, której przeznaczono życie w samotności i modlitwie. Dziewczyna cierpi na częste gorączki, przez co nie nadaje się nawet na służącą, nie mówiąc o, kurtyzanie czy żonie… Los Kalindy odmienia wizyta potężnego tyrana Radży Tarka. Nagle dziewczyna musi opuścić zakon i wyruszyć na pustynną wyprawę, która zaprowadzi ją prosto do haremu. Jako setna żona będzie walczyć o pozycję królowej z pozostałymi dziewięćdziesięcioma dziewięcioma żonami i licznymi kurtyzanami. Jedyną pociechą odnajdzie w osobie strażnika Devena. W obliczu niebezpiecznego turnieju na śmierć i życie oraz uczucia, które żywi do młodego kapitana, Kalinda ma tylko jedną nadzieję na ucieczkę. Musi obudzić w sobie tajemną i zakazaną moc.

In the second book in The Hundredth Queen Series, Emily R. King once again follows a young warrior queen’s rise to meet her destiny in a richly imagined world of sorcery and forbidden powers. Though the tyrant rajah she was forced to marry is dead, Kalinda’s troubles are far from over. A warlord has invaded the imperial city, and now she’s in exile. But she isn’t alone. Kalinda has the allegiance of Captain Deven Naik, her guard and beloved, imprisoned for treason and stripped of command. With the empire at war, their best hope is to find Prince Ashwin, the rajah’s son, who has promised Deven’s freedom on one condition: that Kalinda will fight and defeat three formidable opponents. But as Kalinda’s tournament strengths are once again challenged, so too is her relationship with Deven. While Deven fears her powers, Ashwin reveres them—as well as the courageous woman who wields them. Kalinda comes to regard Ashwin as the only man who can repair a warring world and finds herself torn between her allegiance to Deven and a newly found respect for the young prince. With both the responsibility to protect her people and the fate of those she loves weighing heavily upon her, Kalinda is forced again to compete. She must test the limits of her fire powers and her hard-won wisdom. But will that be enough to unite the empire without sacrificing all she holds dear?

He wanted a warrior queen. He got a revolutionary. As an orphan ward of the Sisterhood, eighteen-year-old Kalinda is destined for nothing more than a life of seclusion and prayer. Plagued by fevers, she’s an unlikely candidate for even a servant’s position, let alone a courtesan or wife. Her sole dream is to continue living in peace in the Sisterhood’s mountain temple. But a visit from the tyrant Rajah Tarek disrupts Kalinda’s life. Within hours, she is ripped from the comfort of her home, set on a desert trek, and ordered to fight for her place among the rajah’s ninety-nine wives and numerous courtesans. Her only solace comes in the company of her guard, the stoic but kind Captain Deven Naik. Faced with the danger of a tournament to the death—and her growing affection for Deven—Kalinda has only one hope for escape, and it lies in an arcane, forbidden power buried within her.

Despite the odds, Kalinda has survived it all: Marriage to a tyrant. Tournaments to the death. The forbidden power to rule fire. The icy touch of a demon. That same demon now disguises itself as Rajah Tarek, Kalinda’s late husband and a man who has never stopped haunting her. Upon taking control of the palace and the army, the demon brands Kalinda and her companions as traitors to the empire. They flee across the sea, seeking haven in the Southern Isles. In Lestari, Kalinda’s powers are not condemned, as they are in her land. Now free to use them to protect those she loves, Kalinda soon realizes that the demon has tainted her with a cold poison, rendering her fire uncontrollable. But the lack of control may be just what she needs to send the demon back to the darkest depths of the Void. To take back the empire, Kalinda will ally with those she distrusts—and risk losing those most loyal to her—to defeat the demon and bring peace to a divided nation.

In the final volume of The Hundredth Queen Series, Kalinda will risk everything to save the man she loves. Kalinda has brought peace to the Tarachand Empire, at least for now. Bhutas no longer need to hide their gifts. The last of the rebels have been banished. And Prince Ashwin is set to take over as rajah. But for Kalinda, this all came at a great loss. Her childhood home. Her best friend. The love of her life. Deven is still trapped in the Void, although he is able to find his way to Kalinda each night. He has been lucky so far — mortals are not meant to last in the Void for long, and Deven has lasted longer than most. But when he doesn’t visit her one night, Kalinda knows that his luck has run out. She will do whatever it takes to save the man she loves, even if it means convincing a god to guide her through the Void. Freeing a mortal from the Void is nearly impossible, but Kalinda has never let those odds stop her before…

W ostatnim tomie serii Królowa bojownicza Kalinda będzie musiała zaryzykować wszystko. Kalinda zaprowadziła pokój w Imperium Tarachandu, przynajmniej chwilowo. Bhutowie już nie muszą ukrywać swoich mocy. Wszystkich rebeliantów wypędzono, a książę Ashwin szykuje się do objęcia tronu radży. Deven pozostaje uwięziony w Otchłani, chociaż co noc znajduje wśród cieni drogę do Kalindy. Dotąd los był mu łaskawy – przetrwał w podziemnym świecie dłużej niż inni śmiertelnicy. Kiedy pewnej nocy nie przychodzi do swej ukochanej, Kalinda wie, że szczęście przestało mu sprzyjać. Zrobi wszystko, aby ocalić swego wybranka, nawet jeśli będzie musiała przekonać jednego z bogów, aby został jej przewodnikiem po Otchłani. Uwolnienie śmiertelnika z królestwa cieni wydaje się niewykonalne, lecz Kalinda nie cofnie się przed niczym.

My mother told me that men would speak about the Golden Age as a time of peace and happiness for all… However, the women of our age would tell a very different story… Cronus, God of Gods, whose inheritance is the world. Among his possessions: women, imprisoned and fated to serve. The strong-minded Althea Lambros controls her own fate and lives to honor her dying mother’s plea to protect her two sisters at all costs. Althea’s journey toward crushing the tyranny has begun. It is a destiny foretold by the Fates. And she is following their visions. On the southern isle of Crete, hidden among mortal women who have fled the Titans, is the Boy God, son of Cronus and believed dead. He shares Althea’s destiny to vanquish the Almighty—fate willing. Because Cronus has caught wind of the plot. He’s amassing his own forces against Althea’s righteous rebellion and all those who will no longer surrender or run. There will be war. If she’s to survive to write their history, the indomitable Althea must soar higher than any god.

Trzeci tom magicznej serii, w którym władczyni ognia musi zmierzyć się z demonem lodu. Waleczna Kalinda zniosła wiele przeciwności losu. Małżeństwo z okrutnym tyranem, krwawe bitwy na śmierć i życie, spotkanie z niebezpiecznym demonem lodu. Tym samym, który teraz powraca pod postacią jej zmarłego męża, radży Tarka. Demon przejmuje władzę i naznacza Kalindę oraz jej towarzyszy piętnem zdrajców imperium. Uciekają za morze, szukając schronienia na Południowych Wyspach. W Lestarii moce Kalindy nie są potępiane jak w jej ojczyźnie. Dzięki nim może chronić najbliższych, lecz demon sprawił, że trudno jej opanować żywioł ognia. Czy to właśnie brak kontroli pomoże jej zwyciężyć? Ryzykując utratę najlepszych przyjaciół, Kalinda sprzymierza się z tymi, którym nie ufa. To jedyny sposób, aby pokonać demona, odzyskać imperium i przywrócić pokój w rozdartym narodzie.