Three masters of the fantasy genre present a collection of enchanting stories, filled with adventure, magic, and everlasting love, that includes Mercedes Lackey's "Counting Crows," in which Lady Gwynhefar must choose between duty and love when she aligns herself with Sir Elloran, a legendary warrior, as well as Catherine Asaro's "Moonglow" and Rachel Lee's "Dusilla's Dream." Original.

Charmed Destinies: 3 Novels in 1

Literature & Fiction

Catherine Asaro

Mercedes Lackey

Rachel Lee

United States

Silhouette

The Charmed Sphere by Catherine Asaro released on Jan 23, 2004 is available now for purchase.

The Charmed Sphere (Misted Cliffs, Book 1)

Romance

Paranormal

Luna

From sixteenth-century Britain to the far reaches of a futuristic outer space, a collection of short fiction explores the irresistible power of love in works by Mary Jo Putney, Jo Beverley, Lois McMaster Bujold, Catherine Asaro, Jennifer Robinson, and Deb Stover. Reprint.

Irresistible Forces

JO BEVERLEY

LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Mary Jo Putney

Jennifer Roberson

Deb Stover

Signet

Winner of the Homer Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.Ballerina Lucia del Mar has two great passions: dance, which consumes most of her waking hours, and the World Wide Web, which brings the outside world into her tightly regimented life. Lucia's two passions collide when a White House performance and reception leads to an encounter with handsome Moroccan businessman Rashid al-Jazari, creator of a brilliant technology that has set the Internet rumor mill afire.A second, seemingly chance meeting with Rashid will plunge Lucia into a deadly world of desire and intrigue. For although his work has implications she cannot foresee, there are those who do understand and would turn its great power to their own destructive purposes. As she is drawn deeper and deeper into Rashid's life and work, cut off from the outside world, she finds herself becoming more attracted to him. But is her seclusion within Rashid's well-guarded Moroccan home intended to ensure her safety...or her silence? And is it already too late to stop the terrible consequences his new technology could unleash?From the Paperback edition.

The Veiled Web

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Bantam]

The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster-than-light communication. But war with the rival empire of the Traders seems imminent, a war that can only lead to slavery for the Skolians or the destruction of both sides. Destructive skirmishes have already occurred. A desperate attempt must be made to avert total disaster.

Primary Inversion (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

Tor Books

Ascendant Sun is the direct sequel to The Last Hawk, in which Kelric, heir to the Skolian Empire, crash-landed his fighter on the Restricted planet of Coba. He was imprisoned by the powerful mistresses of the great estates--women who, over time, fell in love with him. After 18 years of living in their gilded cage, Kelric finally made his escape.In Ascendant Sun, Kelric returns to Skolian space, only to find the Empire in control of the Allied forces of Earth. With little more than the clothes on his back, Kelric is forced to take work on a merchant vessel. But when that vessel enters Euban space, Kelric finds his worst nightmare realized: he becomes a slave to the cruel Aristos--humans who use torture and sex as the ultimate aphrodesiac.

Ascendant Sun (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

Tor Science Fiction

The Quantum Rose (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

A New Adventure in the Saga of the Skolian Empire. Kamoj Argali is the young ruler of an impoverished province on a backward planet. To keep her people from starving, she has agreed to marry Jax Ironbridge, the boorish and brutal ruler of a prosperous province. But before Argali and Ironbridge are wed, a mysterious stranger from a distant planet sweeps in and forces Kamoj into marriage, throwing her world into utter chaos.

Living in exile on a deserted planet, Sauscony and Jaibriol, each the heir to an interstellar empire, become entangled in the machinations of the Skolian Empire. Interstellar war erupts and Jaibriol is snatched away to be the unwilling ruler of the Highton Aristos. Sauscony must lead an invading space fleet to rescue him from his own Empire-without revealing that they are married. With much of interstellar civilization poised on the brink of destruction, it is the devotion of these two lovers, their sacrifices, and their heroism, that might just forge a new order.

The Radiant Seas (Skolian Web)

Sunrise Alley (Library Edition)

Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.

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