Showing results for "the women" in Epic

Nisha has trained since a young child to develop her Qi—internal energy—with the goal of becoming a Qi'advisor. She is still a student at the Qi'temple when the unimaginable happens: war breaks out and she is chosen to be a Qi'advisor to a duke, although untried. Rhybac's king is dead, the kingdom in chaos, and warriors out of the Sands are circling for the kill. As a Qi'advisor surrounded by greed, treachery, and civil war, she must risk her life to reveal what others cannot or refuse to see. The fate of Rhybac, its people, and even its enemies are in her young hands.

Now a knight of Tortall, with her gender no longer a secret, Alanna embarks on her next adventure to the edge of the realm. Captured for the crime of trespassing, Alanna is sentenced to a duel to the death. But the Woman Who Rides Like a Man is not so easy to kill. Though the duel is won, the battle is just beginning. When Alanna is named the Bazhir people’s first female shaman, she is tasked with training her successors. But first, she must overcome their fears of magic, for the sake of all Tortall.

Under the oppressive rule of a tyrant king, twenty-four-year-old Dani has built a life of quiet defiance in the town of Langes. When the monstrous draugr begin to ravage the countryside, Dani refuses to bow to the crown's neglect. Rallying a militia of fearless women, she becomes the shield her people desperately need. Beneath Dani's unwavering resolve lies a fractured soul. Wounds she has long buried resurface, and a rage she cannot contain begins to burn anew.

At once grand in scope and intimate in human detail, Isle of Woman tells the story of a man and a woman born at the dawn of human history, separated by fate, yet united by an unquenchable passion that even time could not conquer: Blaze, the fire worker who raised his kind of savagery, and Ember, the beautiful green-eyed woman who forever haunted his dreams.

When a mysterious, horrifying plague descends upon their sacred island, turning proud Amazon warriors into violent, lust-driven cannibals, Thaleia leads her surviving sisters on a desperate voyage south, fleeing beyond the reach of the gods themselves. But their sanctuary—the frozen, lifeless wasteland at the very edge of the world—offers no peace, only endless ice and relentless daylight. As tensions rise among the weary warriors, Thaleia struggles to hold her tribe together, haunted by the whispers beneath the ice and the shadows of the past they've tried desperately to outrun.

On assignment in the Philippines, archaeologist Annja Creed meets with a contact to verify some information. Easy enough. But when the man doesn't turn out to be whom he said he was, Annja finds herself handcuffed, blindfolded and kidnapped. And to make matters worse, she's a prisoner of the dreaded Abu Sayyaf, a notorious terrorist group. Desperate to escape, Annja is able to flee after slaying one of her captors. But she soon gets lost in the hostile jungle, which is rumored to be haunted by the spirits of Moro warriors who fought off conquistadors with their blades.