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Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College-Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it’s designed to stretch the riders’ capacity for pain beyond endurance. It’s the new vice commandant, who’s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is–unless she betrays the man she loves.

My name's Cesar Hawke. I'm a witch working for a division of the government you've never heard about. The world's not what everyone thinks it is - unless you think that our world's a pawn in a game of chess between Heaven and Hell, and riddled with as much magic and wonder as it is with evil. In that case, the world is exactly what you think. My place of employment - the Office of Preternatural Affairs - takes a modern approach to an ages-old problem.

As the Iris family consolidates their hold on Nether society, Will finds himself more powerful and yet more vulnerable than ever. His strongest supporters are gone, and his wife has left him, a fact that will destroy him if it comes out. To keep his position - and to stay alive - he needs to get her back, whatever the cost. Cathy has finally escaped the Nether but finds her reliance on Sam's protection chafing.

Rescued from peril, street-rats Tyrone and Iris are offered a new life, invisible and scholarly, among the enigmatic Brotherhood of the Vigils. Iris's history fuels her resentment for the restraints imposed upon her. Irreconcilable values drive a wedge between them, until the pair are thrust back together to face Captain Mavvis and his crew, a band of centuries-old ghouls.

Tricks, lies, and the will to survive. These are the tools in Lillian's heart, instilled in her by her father many cycles ago. Now that Wyran Emberlach has made a choice he cannot take back, the tables have turned and Lillian needs to make the ultimate decision: Should she pay Wyran back for the cruelty he unleashed upon her first? She's already broken the rules once before by telling the Tribe of Midnight sacred secrets of Dawn. She cannot disobey her High Court again.

The Flame Iris Temple continues the story which began with The Burning Tower, and continued in The Fire Sword. The Flame Iris Temple is a fantasy where a group of knights take up residence in a land quite different from their own. They must fight off shape-changing assassins, kidnappers, and other human enemies who are cunning and ruthless.

Elise Kavanagh is being held captive without weapons or allies. The only way out of the garden is to kill God Himself. James Faulkner's son has been taken by Metaraon, but James is caught in Limbo and helpless to save him.

Elise Kavanagh failed to prevent the Breaking, and now hell is spilling onto Earth. She's delved deep into the City of Dis in an attempt to stop the infernal armies--but even the legendary Godslayer is unprepared to face Dis' fiercest demons, not to mention the responsibility of liberating the humans they've enslaved.

После пробуждения Джон попал в череду событий, новых знакомств и несколько раз побывал на краю гибели. Всё это привело его, новичка, к тому, чего опасаются даже стражи из высшего эшелона.