The Gate of FireTor Publishing Group, 1. apr. 2011 - 480 sider The Gate of Fire continues Tom Harlan's remarkable fantasy epic, following the increasingly dangerous conflicts both military and sorcerous. The sorcerer Dahak plots from his hidden citadel to regain the Peacock Throne. Prince Maxian, having raised both Julius Ceasar and Alexander the Great from the dead, now considers how to use them to free Rome from the curse of the Oath. Thyatis has fled with the widowed Queen of Persia to a hidden island; Dwyrin's thaumaturgic unit is shattered as Zoe discovers the destruction of Palmyra and, as its new queen, vows revenge against Rome. And in Mecca, Ahmet's friend and Palmyra's lieutenant Mohammed receives a vision, and a command, and the power to strive against the forces of darkness. |
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... Krista, we return to a dangerous situation! One moment of—” She raised a hand and looked at him squarely for the first time since he had clambered up out of the hatchway. “Lord Maxian, I feel death at my shoulder as closely as you do ...
... Krista clasped his hands to her stomach, feeling the tension in them. “My lord,” she said, letting her head fall back into his chest and the curve of his neck, “do you know what you are going to do now?” Maxian stirred, and she felt him ...
... Krista almost laughed aloud at seeing him as an excited child, showing off the muddy frog he had found by the bank of some stream. “But what is possible—if we can find the crux, the anchor, the focus of this thing—is to destroy it ...
... Krista turned her head away from a bright flare that danced along the wingtip of the Engine. She felt Maxian's body tremble in response to the enormous boom that followed. Then there was clear air, and above them a massive ceiling of ...
... Krista felt his fist clench. “It kills our future each day—how many advances might our philosophy have made without the bony hand waiting in the darkness to pluck away our best minds? Those jewelers—what they had made would benefit ...
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SOMEWHERE IN THE MARE AEGEUM | |
MAKKAH ARABIA FELIX | |
THE ISLAND OF THIRA SOMEWHERE IN THE KYKLADES | |
ANTIOCH ROMAN SYRIA MAGNA | |
THE CRYPTS OF ALAMUT | |
THE ZAMZAM SOUTHERN ARABIA FELIX | |
THE RUINS OF PALMYRA SYRIA COELE | |
THE HOUSE DORELIO THE QUIRINAL HILL ROMA | |
THE RUINS OF THE KABA NEAR MEKKAH | |
THIRA | |
THE HILL ABOVE PALMYRA | |
THE CAMPUS MARTIUS ROME | |