Патриция Маккиллип

…Давным-давно из этого мира ушли волшебники, но их мудрость осталась жить, скрытая в загадках, передаваемых из поколения в поколение. Одним из величайших мастеров раскрывать смысл этих загадок стал Моргон, владетель крошечного княжества Хед. Но древние силы Зла берегут свои тайны. Они хотят остановить Моргана, и смерть, меняя обличья и маски, следует за ним по пятам. И тогда князь Хеда отправляетс...

When Corbet Lynn returns home to rebuild his family's estate, his grandfather's curse is rekindled-and lures a free spirited woman from the woods that border Lynn Hall. "Weaves a dense web of desire and longing, human love and inhuman need." (Publishers Weekly) "The prose is impeccable, the story memorable, and the characters admirable." (Science Fiction Chronicle)

Twenty years ago, the powerful mage Atrix Wolfe unleashed an uncontrollable force that killed his beloved king. Now, the Queen of the Wood has offered him one last chance for redemption. She asks him to find her daughter, who vanished into the human world during the massacre he caused. No one has seen the princess-but deep in the kitchens of the Castle of Pelucir, there is a scullery maid who appe...

Brenden Vetch has a gift. With an innate sense he cannot explain to himself or describe to others, he connects to the agricultural world, nurturing gardens to flourish and instinctively knowing the healing properties each plant and herb has to offer. But Brenden’s gift isolates him from people—and from becoming part of a community.Until the day he receives a personal invitation from the wizard Od....

As a child, Rook had been taken in by the bards of Luly, and raised as one of their own. Of his past he knew nothing - except faint memories of fire and death that he'd do anything to forget. But nightmares, and a new threat to the island that had become his own, would not let him escape the dreaded fate of his true family. Haunted by the music of the bards, he left the only home he knew to w...

…Давным-давно из этого мира ушли волшебники, но их мудрость осталась жить, скрытая в загадках, передаваемых из поколения в поколение. Одним из величайших мастеров раскрывать смысл этих загадок стал Моргон, владетель крошечного княжества Хед. Но древние силы Зла берегут свои тайны. Они хотят остановить Моргана, и смерть, меняя обличья и маски, следует за ним по пятам. И тогда князь Хеда отправляетс...

Raised on Eld mountain with only her father's magical menagerie for company, a young wizard is drawn irrevocably into the human world with all its sorrows and delights when a baby comes into her care.

A romantic fantasy anthology with four novellas from renowned authors of romance and fantasy... USA Today best-selling author Claire Delacroix gives readers a revisionist version of the medieval legend of Melusine. USA Today best-selling author Lynn Kurland's trademark style shines in this tale of the magic and medieval romance between two lovers. World Fantasy Award-winner Patricia A. ...

В рассказе, добром и полном сострадания, автор говорит читателю, что если имя обладает особой силой — а так оно и есть! — то прежде, чем назваться им, нужно хорошенько убедиться, что оно и вправду тебе подходит. Рассказ из антологии «Чёрная магия» .

…Давным-давно из этого мира ушли волшебники, но их мудрость осталась жить, скрытая в загадках, передаваемых из поколения в поколение. Одним из величайших мастеров раскрывать смысл этих загадок стал Моргон, владетель крошечного княжества Хед. Но древние силы Зла берегут свои тайны. Они хотят остановить Моргана, и смерть, меняя обличья и маски, следует за ним по пятам. И тогда князь Хеда отправляетс...

…Давным-давно из этого мира ушли волшебники, но их мудрость осталась жить, скрытая в загадках, передаваемых из поколения в поколение. Одним из величайших мастеров раскрывать смысл этих загадок стал Моргон, владетель крошечного княжества Хед. Но древние силы Зла берегут свои тайны. Они хотят остановить Моргана, и смерть, меняя обличья и маски, следует за ним по пятам. И тогда князь Хеда отправляетс...

When Corbet Lynn returns home to rebuild his family's estate, his grandfather's curse is rekindled-and lures a free spirited woman from the woods that border Lynn Hall. "Weaves a dense web of desire and longing, human love and inhuman need." (Publishers Weekly) "The prose is impeccable, the story memorable, and the characters admirable." (Science Fiction Chronicle)

Twenty years ago, the powerful mage Atrix Wolfe unleashed an uncontrollable force that killed his beloved king. Now, the Queen of the Wood has offered him one last chance for redemption. She asks him to find her daughter, who vanished into the human world during the massacre he caused. No one has seen the princess-but deep in the kitchens of the Castle of Pelucir, there is a scullery maid who appe...

Brenden Vetch has a gift. With an innate sense he cannot explain to himself or describe to others, he connects to the agricultural world, nurturing gardens to flourish and instinctively knowing the healing properties each plant and herb has to offer. But Brenden’s gift isolates him from people—and from becoming part of a community.Until the day he receives a personal invitation from the wizard Od....

As a child, Rook had been taken in by the bards of Luly, and raised as one of their own. Of his past he knew nothing - except faint memories of fire and death that he'd do anything to forget. But nightmares, and a new threat to the island that had become his own, would not let him escape the dreaded fate of his true family. Haunted by the music of the bards, he left the only home he knew to w...