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Knight of the Demon Queen

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Zusatztext "I might be slightly prejudiced for dragons! and I am definitely prejudiced in favor of anything Barbara Hambly wants to do with her main characters! Lord John and Jenny . . . She handles the action with great skill and charm! and the universe with beautiful imagery . . . She writes darn good books! our Barbara!" --ANNE MCCAFFREY Informationen zum Autor At various times in her life, Barbara Hambly has been a high-school teacher, a model, a waitress, a technical editor, a professional graduate student, an all-night clerk at a liquor store, and a karate instructor. Born in San Diego, she grew up in Southern California, with the exception of one high-school semester spent in New South Wales, Australia. Her interest in fantasy began with reading The Wizard of Oz at an early age and has continued ever since. Klappentext Once the most powerful mage in the land, Jenny Waynest is now a broken woman. After being possessed and corrupted by the demon Amayon, she lost everything she holds dear-even the trust of her husband. Yet Lord John Aversin has torments of his own: memories of the beautiful and cruel Aohila, demon queen of a rival hell, whom he'd tricked into providing the help he needed to free Jenny. Now, condemned to death for trafficking with demons, John cannot forgive himself for opening the door to a far greater evil-an evil that still haunts his dreams. And not only his dreams . . . For a vengeful Aohila needs mortal aid in realms beyond her power, and who better to provide it than Lord John? Blackmailed into cooperating, John must fight his way through unimaginable horrors in quest of a prize that may doom the world he has left behind . . . CHAPTER ONE Jenny Waynest's son Ian took poison on the night of winter's first snowfall. He was thirteen. She was dreaming about the demon when it happened. The demon was called Amayon, beautiful as the night and the morning, and she had dreamed of him every night since fall, when his possession of her had ended. While her soul was imprisoned in a pale green crystal, he had inhabited her flesh and done such things as still made her wake weeping, or screaming, or speaking his name out of a longing so desperate she thought she would die of it. In daylight the grief of his loss, and her shame at that grief, occupied her mind against her will, to the exclusion of all other things. Otherwise she would have seen--she hoped she would have seen--the pain and horror growing in her son's eyes. This night there was a part of her that knew where Ian was. In her dream she saw him in the small stone house on Frost Fell--the house that had been her master Caerdinn's up to the old man's death. Later Jenny had lived there, until she had gone with Lord John Aversin, Thane of the Winterlands and her lover of ten years, to live at Alyn Hold. Asleep in their bed at the Hold now, she saw their son in the old stone house, saw him descend the stair from the loft and with a glance, as wizards could, kindle the wood on the hearth. He shouldn't be there, she thought. It was past midnight and the snow had been falling since just before dark. He shouldn't be there. Rest, Amayon's voice whispered. Sleepy dreams are better than plans and schemes. Her consciousness drifted away. Ever since the magics of the Demon Queen Aohila had taken Amayon from her, Jenny had tried to decide whether the pain she felt was a memory that Amayon had left or whether he spoke to her still. Sometimes she thought that she could hear his voice, gentle and trusting as a child's, though he was Aohila's prisoner behind the Mirror of Isychros. At other times she guessed that the coaxing sweetness, the hurtful mocking, were only a poison he'd left to make her suffer. How like him, she thought, and she did not know if she thought it fondly or with hatred...

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Authors Barbara Hambly
Publisher Del Rey
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.10.2000
 
EAN 9780345421906
ISBN 978-0-345-42190-6
No. of pages 352
Dimensions 106 mm x 175 mm x 24 mm
Series Winterlands
Winterlands
Subject Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy

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