Elspeth Cooper

The future holds nothing but blood and death ...and Teia fears there is nothing she can do about it. Her clan is riding to war, but her secret, untrained gift of foretelling has shown her they are riding to their doom. If she cannot turn them from their course, her only hope of saving them will be to betray them to their sworn enemies. Gair is mourning his past ...but there is no time to dwell on his grief or hunger for revenge. Pursuing an artefact from the Founding Wars, he travels deep into the hostile southern deserts. As religious tensions erupt into bloody violence around him, he must make an impossible choice: save innocent lives or sacrifice them in the hope that thousands more can be saved later. And all the while, his grip on his powers is failing.

SONGS OF THE EARTH is the most compelling debut fantasy novel since Patrick Rothfuss first hit the shelves four years ago, with the stunning THE NAME OF THE WIND. Combining superb characterisation with an epic story, it is beautifully told and engaging from the very first word.Gair is under a death sentence. He can hear music - music with power - and in the Holy City that means only one thing: hes a witch, and hes going to be burnt at the stake. Even if he could escape, the Church Knights and their witchfinder would be hot on his heels while his burgeoning power threatesn to tear him apart from within.There is no hope . . . none, but a secretive order, themselves persecuted almost to destruction. If Gair can escape, if he can master his own growing, dangerous abilities, if he can find the Guardians of the Veil, then maybe he will be safe. Or maybe hell discover that his fight has only just begun.

The future holds nothing but blood and death ...... and Teia fears there is nothing she can do about it. Her clan is riding to war, but her secret, untrained gift of foretelling has shown her they are riding to their doom. If she cannot turn them from their course, her only hope of saving them will be to betray them to their sworn enemies.Gair is mourning his past ...... but there is no time to dwell on his grief or hunger for revenge. Pursuing an artefact from the Founding Wars, he travels deep into the hostile southern deserts. As religious tensions erupt into bloody violence around him, he must make an impossible choice: save innocent lives or sacrifice them in the hope that thousands more can be saved later.And all the while, his grip on his powers is failing.

Sometimes those with the greatest potential must withstand the hardest blows. Fate, it seems, has nothing kind in store for Gair. First his lover and now his mentor have been killed - the first by the dangerous, ambitious Savin, the second in a revolutionary uprising. Alone, and with even his magical abilities betraying him, he has only one goal left: revenge.Far to the north, if Teia has one goal it is survival. Attempting to cross a high mountain pass in the teeth of winter is an act of desperation, but the message she carries cannot wait for spring. An invasion force is gathering behind her, and only an ancient order of knights can hold them back.The danger is real, there are enemies in the shadows, and time is running out ...

Bajo la hiedra es la mejor novela de fantasía desde la publicación de El nombre del viento. Una aventura épica trazada con unos espléndidos personajes, narrada con un estilo que atrapa desde la prime

Sangre y muerte... ése es el futuro que vislumbra Teia y teme no poder hacer nada por evitarlo. Tras cientos de años de paz, su clan se prepara para la batalla, pero las visiones de Teia le han mostrado que su gente cabalga hacia su destruccion. Si no puede convencerlos de que no vayan a la guerra, su unica esperanza de salvarlos es traicionarlos... La guerra acaba de empezar y Gair ya ha sufrido la mayor de las perdidas... pero no tiene tiempo para lamentarse o llevar a cabo su venganza. Mientras las tensiones religiosas estallan en sangrientas revueltas por todo el pais, el joven mago debera hacer una eleccion imposible: salvar vidas inocentes, o sacrificarlas con la esperanza de que miles de vidas puedan ser salvadas despues. Y mientras tanto, empieza a perder el control sobre su unica arma: la magia.

Las tres lunas es la segunda entrega «Bajo la hiedra», en la que continúa la historia sobre el enfrentamiento entre el Reino Oculto y el reino de la luz y se desvelará el papel que el joven Gair ha d