Storm Constantine books for sale

Jul 29, 2005 12:58

All in excellent like-new condition. All listing for 1/2 cover price.



Softbound Wraeththu Trilogy: $6.50
  • The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit
  • The Bewitchments of Love and Hate
  • The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire
In this powerful and elegant story set in a future Earth very different from our own, a new kind of human has evolved to challenge the dominion of Homo sapiens. This new breed is stronger, smarter, and far more beautiful than their parent race, and are endowed with psychic as well as physical gifts.  They are destined to supplant humanity as we know it, but humanity won't die without a struggle.

The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure: $9
Long before the Wraeththu assumed total mastery of the Earth and dominion over the dwindling remnants of the human race, they were a wild and passionate people, living in scattered tribes, worshipping strange gods, increasing their numbers by transmuting humans into their own kind.  But all that changed on a festival night that surpassed all others, a night when the world changed forever and the Wraeththu began to realize their awesome potential.
It was a time when the achmage Thiede wove the strands of Wraeththu destiny.  When two young Wraeththu hara came together to produce a miraculous new life.  When Pellaz, a brash and recless young leader, rose from destruction to take his place in Wraeththu history.  And a child called Lileem found a path of pasion and power that led to unknown worlds of mystery.
A tale of intrigue and betrayal, bloodshed and pleasure, dark and dangerous supernatural forces, ardent and consuming passion, The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure is a thrilling new chapter in a compelling fantasy epic.

Sea Dragon Heir: $7.50
In a world beyond time, the Palindrake family ruled the rocky kingdome of Caradore, their right ordained by their allegiance to the power of the Sea.  But war came to them, and defeat at the hands of the king of Fire.  For generations the Palindrake Lords served the god of Fire.
But now, five lifetimes later, the Palindrake heir, Valraven V, has a twin sister, a woman who embodies their inheritance of power in a way that no wife ever could.  The tidal power in their blood draws them to each other, into a forbidden passion that could sweep away the bods of fire placed upon the oceanic magic of the sea, and free Caradore from its long imprisonment.

The Crown of Silence:$8.50
When Shan was fifteen years old, dark soldiers came out of the West, like a cloud of evil boiling over the soft hills of his homeland.  They commanded terrible beasts, which killed with hooked claws like scythes and cold eyes that dripped icy fire.  The soldiers wore helmets that looked like fiends, tusked and snarling and sneering.
They left the boy San wounded in body and mind.  He is taken from his devastated village by the magus Taropat, chosen by the master,s mysterious impulse to make Shan his pupil--and a weapon against the invading empire.

Burying the Shadow $8
Rayojini lives an idyllic life amongst the soulscapers of Taparak until she reaches the age at which she will be initiated into their ranks.  Her initiation rite, though it follows the traditional pattern of thousands of others, is different in one vital respect.  The guardian-pursuers that are invoked to watch over Rayojini's progress are real.
In far off Sacramante, the artisans who are patronized by the upper echelons of Bochanegran society, live in isolated atelier courts.  The public may watch performances at chosen time, but only the patron families have constant access to the astounding creations of the eloim artists.  The eloim themselves are more than content to remain a race apart, for so they are, and if the majority were to know their true nature, their lives would be forfeit.  After eons of contented cohabitation, A phenomenon know as the Fear is beginning to infect the eloim, who have previously considered themselves free from the petty psychological problems of humanity.  They have been virtually immortal--thanks to the protection of the patrons, wh exchange their life's blood for culture-- but now the artisans are beginning to die in despair.
Gimel and Belt Metatronim, an actress and a painter, set out to find a Tappish soulscaper, who will be proficient enought to enter the racial soulscape of the eloim, track down the cause of the fear and eradicate it.  The soulscaper of their choice, Rayojini, is puzzled that her guardian pursuers should be so much more real than those of other soulscapers.  Then, as she delves deeper into the cause of the terrible 'non-death', a mysterious affliction aking th the Fear, their attentrions becom unavoidable.

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