Dave Duncan

La severa escuela del Salón de Hierro recoge a los muchachos rebeldes o abandonados y cinco años después entrega a los más habilidosos espadachines del mundo, las Espadas del Rey. Sometidos a una absoluta lealtad por una cuchillada magica a traves de sus corazones, aguardan preparados para defender al monarca o a quienquiera que el designe contra todos los peligros, tanto humanos como sobrenaturales. La cadena dorada cuenta la historia del mayor guerrero que ha producido jamas el Salon de Hierro.La Forja de los Heroes cuenta la historia del mayor guerrero que ha producido jamas el Salon del Hierro, sir Durendal. Cuando el Rey Ambrose necesita a un Espada para acompañar a su gente en una peligrosa mision a los remotos confines de la Tiera, el escoge, por supuesto, al joven Durendal. Es entonces cuando el sueño de toda su vida se hace pedazos, ya que queda vinculado hasta la muerte a un noble petimetre por orden de su majestad. Sin embargo, los planes del destino son extraños e inescrutables para el joven caballero ya que una mision, un concurso y quiza un tesoro lo esperan enuna tierra muy lejana.

To the legendary clairvoyant Maestro Nostradamus, the future is forever in motion. But for young swordsman Alfeo Zeno, his apprentice and protector, the present is hard enough to contend with. His days are spent poring over astrology charts and making calculations, his nights learning arcane magic or transcribing Nostradamuss nebulous prophecies. Until one night, when the Council of Ten arrives to take the seer into custody. It seems that high-ranking friend of the prince died under mysterious circumstances after Nostradamus cast his horoscope, warning of danger-and rumors are swirling that the mystic poisoned the victim to enhance his own reputation. Alfeo is stunned when his master refuses to flee. Instead, Nostradamus charges Alfeo with the task of clearing his name. Now, Alfeo must unravel a web of magic and murder if he is to have any future of his own.

It is said the legendary Maestro Nostradamus is able to glimpse the ever-changing future, but even he cannot see the danger that is about to envelop him when he is hired to find a foreign spy by Venices ruling Council of Ten. Especially since the only clues are the spys intercepted messages, encoded in a seemingly unbreakable cipher. But Nostradamus soon detects evil influences working against him, and realizes the spy can only be caught by occult means. He turns to his able apprentice, the daring young swordsman Alfeo Zeno, whose unique talents may prove essential to unraveling the truth. But the truth may be the end of both master and apprenticeOne of the best writers in the fantasy world today.Writers Write

Hampered by arthritis, Nostradamus is in no mood for granting favors or running about looking for trouble. But when his apprentice Alfeos mistress asks him to investigate the murder of her beloved courtesan mentor-and promises a fortune in payment-he comes around. It appears that someone is murdering the courtesans of Venice. All were well-known, admired for their skills-and somehow connected by a sinister event involving one of the great families of the city. While Nostradamus attempts to use the dark arts to solve riddles which confound explanation, Alfeo finds himself led by a possibly demonic force through a maze of deceit and death. And when the master and apprentice come to the end of their intertwined paths, there may be hell to pay.

Le rôle de princesse est souvent pénible et pour Malinda, cest lamour de son père, le roi Ambrose, qui manquera à tout jamais maintenant quil vient de décéder. Obligée de grandir au milieu des intrig

Lorsquun garçon devient une Lame, sa vie ne lui appartient plus. Seule la mort peut briser la chaîne enchantée qui le lie à la personne quil a juré de défendre. Et jamais, de mémoire dhomme, on navai

Wallie Smith agonisait lorsque la Déesse transféra son esprit dans le corps dun guerrier barbare. Puis Elle lui offrit la légendaire épée de saphir et lui confia une mission : Wallie devait simplement prendre la tete dune horde de guerriers arrogants afin de detruire les sorciers et leur dieu du feu. Cest alors quil decouvrit que son predecesseur avait deja essaye et quil avait miserablement echoue. Les choses se sont un peu compliquees et sa reputation fut reduite en lambeaux. Son meilleur ami et eleve etait sur le point de le trahir. De toute façon, la defaite des sorciers mettrait fin a tout espoir de progres dans le monde de la Deesse - et entrainerait la fin de la Deesse elle-meme. Cette situation chaotique etait somme toute assez interessante. Apres tout, il devait juste trouver la solution et, dans la mesure du possible, rester en vie...

En gagnant toutes les batailles contre ses ennemis, le jeune comte Jauro attire la jalousie et la convoitise de son roi, qui cherche à lui déposséder de ses terres et de son enfant. Mais dans ce mond

La Déesse a sauvé Wallie dune mort certaine et lui a offert le corps dun guerrier exceptionnel et la légendaire épée du saphir de Chioxin. Elle lui a aussi proposé une petite mission en échange, car, evidemment, tout se paie... Wallie est ainsi devenu le champion de la Deesse, en croisade contre les malefiques Sorciers bien decides a reconquerir des terres et des ames au nom de leur Dieu de Feu. Embarquee a bord du Saphir, un navire de commerce dont lequipage ne semble pas tres heureux de les accueillir, la petite troupe de Wallie part explorer des villes tombees sous la coupe des Sorciers et chercher un moyen de les combattre... Mais epees et prieres de simples mortels ne sont pas de taille face aux sortileges. Il leur faudra trouver le seul pouvoir capable de les sauver : lAvenement de la Sagesse.

Medieval magic, murder, and mayhem! It is 1164, and for a hundred years England has been ruled by the Normans. A young Saxon boy named Durwin, crippled by a childhood accident, had caught the eye of a Norman sage teaching at a rural school of magic. Realizing that the boy had promise, Durwin was made stable boy, and eventually allowed to attend classes. Now twenty, Durwin is proficient enough that he is assigned to teach, but the other sages refuse to promote him and he is hassled by the Norman juniors for his disability. But those troubles turn out to be the least of his worries when he manages to corrects errors in an ancient corrupted spell, which promptly prophesies murder. Sure enough, word soon reaches the school that one of the local counts house sage has died, perhaps slain by black magic. Durwin is whisked away to the familys castle, only to find that one death was only the beginning. The young sage quickly learns of a dizzying plot to assassinate King Henry. Dropped into the middle of the complex politics of Englands royal courts, can Durwin stop them in time?

A burgeoning Saxon enchanter confronts a demonic plot against the king in the sequel to Ironfoot, a historical fantasy series set in twelfth century England. King Henry, campaigning in France, receives a muddled warning of a treasonous conspiracy in Lincoln Castle, his great fortress in the center of England. His enchanters report that the letter contains both truth and lies, but cannot determine which is which. Putting little stock in the warning, he sends an eager young knight to lead a troop of men and investigate, and since the letter includes hints of magic, Henry orders him to enlist the help of Durwin, the young Saxon whose education he has been financing these last two years. Durwin takes an assistant and accompanies the troop to Lincoln, but quickly finds his blossoming abilities as a sage are not warmly received. Upon reaching town, it only takes a couple of hours for Durwin to realize that they are up against a vast Satanic conspiracy?and his companions may have already fallen into a deadly trap!

Sir Durwin must overcome a cloak-and-dagger plot to usurp the king in the final novel of the Enchanter General, a historical fantasy trilogy set in twelfth century England. King Henry is dead; Richard the Lionheart now rules England. The new king does not believe in magic, and is interested only in a crusade to recapture Jerusalem. But his crusade soon stalls, and while he is away, his brother, John, and his supposed ally, Philip of France, are conspiring to steal his kingdom. Richards mother, Queen Eleanor, sends Sir Durwin, Enchanter General of England, out to Palestine, where he must convince the skeptical king that a loyal magician can be a valuable aide. Meanwhile, King Philip has turned all of Europe into a trap for Richard. The moment the Lionheart sets foot there, he will be arrested and imprisoned for life. It is up to Durwin, aided by his old friend William Legier, to see Richard safely home again and to save the kingdom from falling into the hands of the sadistic and treacherous Prince John . . .

Elite warrior swordsmen, they are unequalled in any time or realm . . .The Kings BladesThe King has decreed that new Blades must be sworn into the service of the Grand Duke Rubin, deposed by a foul usurper and currently on the run. But none of the rough youths being readied at Ironhall possess the seasoning to survive what better, more skilled Blades already have not. Still, two woefully unprepared candidates are approached with an offer of early bonding and probable death: deft but dense, rude Ranter, and eager, impetuous Ringwood . . . with a third, the inadequate swordsman but potentially able spy Bellman, enlisted into their threadbare ranks. Joining the Dukes entourage along with the courageous and prescient White Sister Trudy, the would-be champions must restore a rightful ruler to the throne or die in the process. But before them waits an army of the dead. And the Duke whom the Blades must protect to the last drop of their lifeblood is not the liege they imagined . . .

Quand Wallie se réveille dans la peau dun épéiste barbare, en compagnie dune magnifique esclave dévouée et dun vieux prêtre desséché qui radote à propos dune vague déesse, il pense tout dabord quil d

Il est un fort, sur la lande, où lon envoie les enfants rebelles : le Hall de Fer. Quand ils en sortent, des années plus tard, ils sont devenus les meilleurs épéistes du royaume. Un rituel magique le

The mightiest swordsmen in the relm, are bound by magic to defend their noble wards...to the death.The Kings Blades The unloved child of the unscrupulous King Ambrose,Princess Malinda learned at an early age to fight for what was rightfully hers. Now, with the Kings abrupt death, civil war has become her grim destiny. Making her uncertain way through the blood labyrinth of schemesand betrayals, Malinda can trust none but the Blades of the Royal Guard. But the Blades themselves are in grave peril. And the young Queen faces the most crucialdecision of her life: a choice that will either redeem her kingdom from chaos...or bring ultimate destruction down upon it, her Blades, and herself.

The realms most feared swordsman, Sir Wolf has earned his name, the "Kings Killer," well. Unlike many of his brother Blades, however, Wolf detests his sworn duty to do the bloody bidding of a liege he can never respect. But when an impregnable fortress is breached and a former royal mistress is abducted by brazen assailants, Wolf must leap into the fray.Burdened with the company of his disgraced brother, Sir Lynxthe only Blade ever to lose his ward and liveand shadowed by a mysterious Inquisitor with a secret agenda, Wolf must make his way across a landscape of nightmares vivid and terrible enough to chill any fearless heart. For somewhere in this dark, unfamiliar world, the fate of all Chivial hangs in the balanceand it is the destiny of one reluctant Blade to tip the scales to salvation . . . or doom.

As unwanted and rebellious boys, they find refuge in Ironhall....Years later they emerge as the finest swordsmen in the realmA magical ritual of a sword through the heart binds each to his wardif not the king himself, then to whomever else the monarch designateswith absolute loyalty.And the greatest Blade of them all wasand isSir Durendal.But a lifelong dream of protecting his beloved liege from enemies, traitors, and monsters is dashed to bits when Durendal is bonded till death to an effete noble fop at his kings orders. Yet Destiny has many strange and inscrutable plans for the young knightfor a mission, a contest, and, perhaps, a treasure await him in a faraway land. But he soon finds himself enmeshed in treason and foul intrigues, compelled to betray the king he had hoped to serve. The Blades have ways to protect their own, but death and madness haunt the path to salvationand few ever return unscathed. As unwanted and rebellious boys, they find refuge in Ironhall....Years later they emerge as the finest swordsmen in the realmA magical ritual of a sword through the heart binds each to his wardif not the king himself, then to whomever else the monarch designateswith absolute loyalty. And the greatest Blade of them all wasand isSir Durendal.But a lifelong dream of protcting his beloved liege from enemies, traitors, and monsters is dashed to bits when Durendal is bonded till death to an effete noble fop at his kings orders. Yet Destiny has many strange and inscrutable plans for the young knightfor a mission, a contest, and, perhaps, a treasure await him in a faraway land. But he soon finds himself enmeshed in treasonand foul intrigues, compelled to betray the king he had hoped to serve. The Blades have ways to protect their own, but death and madness haunt the path to salvationand few ever return unscathed.