City of Ruin

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Author: Charissa Weaks

Publisher:

Published: 2022-09-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781648981432

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A king of frost.A queen of fire.A battle for the ages.The Frost King has been taken. Now a small band of Witch Walkers, including the vale's lone survivor, Raina Bloodgood, travel south to take back their king, led by the man who has claimed Raina's heart, the Witch Collector Alexus Thibault. Raina is conflicted as they head to the desert battlefields of the Summerlands. The others love the king while Raina's bitterness toward him resurfaces each time someone utters his name-Colden Moeshka.But sometimes Fate forces us to endure the very thing we loathe most. When Raina becomes separated from the Northland band, she finds herself captured alongside none other than the king himself. Under the cruel hand of an Eastlander Commander, the two must put aside their mutual dislike and devise a plan of escape before they reach the City of Ruin. Their enemies have a plan of their own, however. A plan no one sees coming until it's too late.In the midst of battle, Raina faces the most heartbreaking decision of her life-flee and live while all she loves is lost or stay and die. Sometimes there is no good choice. Sometimes the only ways out are all impossible. And yet, she must choose. Even if it kills her.

Dream of a City of Ruin

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Author: Selah Tay-Song

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-01-05

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 9781506022765

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The tale of QaiMaj continues in this gripping sequel to Dream of a Vast Blue Cavern: War simmering for three thousand years is poised to explode on the surface of QaiMaj. The outcome might free the scattered survivors of an ancient disaster from tyranny, or destroy them forever. Torn from familiar caverns in the midst of her own war, stranded in the icy lands of Khell, Queen Stasia of Iskalon knows nothing of the conflicts shaping QaiMaj. Her only guides are legends told by a Khell Healer and her own prophetic Dreams of her people suffering in a dark, ruined city. Unwillingly allied with the man who destroyed everything she holds dear, struggling to define her identity in the face of so much loss, stalked and assailed by death-hungry Dhuciri, Stasia sets out across the vast wastelands of QaiMaj to reach the city of her Dreams. But Svardark, the ruling dynasty on QaiMaj, already knows she has surfaced, and they will stop at nothing to find her in . . . Dream of a City of Ruin Dreams of QaiMaj Book II

A City in Ruin

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Author: D K Holmberg

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-08-30

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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Strange fires threaten to destroy the city of Nelar that Jayna alone can't stop. After stopping a powerful dark sorcerer, Jayna finds herself a target. Not only does the Sorcerers' Society think she uses dark magic, the Celebrants of Asymorn want vengeance for her interference. She'd leave the city, Ceran has shown her that something worse is still to come. When it does, she's still unprepared. Nearly killed by a strange fire even her dark magic could not extinguish, she needs to find those responsible before the city is destroyed-or worse, plunged into war. Even stopping the fires might not be enough. The dark sorcerers have begun to move, and Jayna might need to surrender to her magic in order to stop them. Filled with action and adventure, A City in Ruin continues the epic fantasy adventure of The Dark Sorcerer series!

The Witch Collector

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Author: Charissa Weaks

Publisher:

Published: 2021-10-14

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9781648981555

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Every harvest moon, the Witch Collector rides into our valley and leads one of us to the home of the immortal Frost King, to remain forever. Today is that day-Collecting Day. But he will not come for me. I, Raina Bloodgood, have lived in this village for twenty-four years, and for all that time he has passed me by. His mistake. Raina Bloodgood has one desire: kill the Frost King and the Witch Collector who stole her sister. On Collecting Day, she means to exact murderous revenge, but a more sinister threat sets fire to her world. Rising from the ashes is the Collector, Alexus Thibault, the man she vowed to slay and the only person who can help save her sister. Thrust into an age-old story of ice, fire, and ancient gods, Raina must abandon vengeance and aid the Witch Collector or let their empire-and her sister-fall into enemy hands. But the lines between good and evil blur, and Raina has more to lose than she imagined. What is she to do when the Witch Collector is no longer the villain who stole her sister, but the hero who's stealing her heart? The Witch Collector is book one in a thrilling romantic fantasy trilogy, perfect for fans of Naomi Novik, Sarah J. Maas, and Jennifer L. Armentrout.

Bright Ruin

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Author: Vic James

Publisher: Del Rey

Published: 2018-10-09

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0425284190

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In the “thrilling conclusion”* to the dystopian trilogy that began with Gilded Cage and Tarnished City, the people of Britain rise up against their magically gifted masters. They must break the system—or be broken. MAGIC RUINS. WE RISE. The rules are simple, the system cruel: the lower classes must give ten years in service to Britain’s powerfully gifted rulers. With one uprising crushed by the glittering elite, commoners and aristocrats alike now take sides for a final confrontation. At the center of it all are two ordinary siblings: Abi Hadley and her brother, Luke. Each has reason to hate the ruling Jardine family. Abi, who was once their servant, now seeks revenge for a terrible wrong. Luke was imprisoned on their whim—but his only hope may be an alliance with the youngest and most powerful of the clan, the cold and inscrutable Silyen Jardine. Risking everything to end a bright and shining tyranny, Abi, Luke, and Silyen find themselves bound by a single destiny. Their actions will change their fates—and change the world. But at a cost almost too terrible to contemplate. What price would you pay for freedom? *Library Journal (starred review, Pick of the Month) Look for all three books in the mesmerizing Dark Gifts trilogy: GILDED CAGE • TARNISHED CITY • BRIGHT RUIN Praise for Bright Ruin “Fast-paced, entertaining, and a satisfying end to an epic story [with] dramatic class division based not on mere financial wealth but on a family’s magic.”—Booklist “A triumphant conclusion to this outstanding fantasy series . . . It will keep you up at night until you finish it, and you’ll take a huge breath as you can’t believe the story is over. If you haven’t read the first two installments, please do so, and then jump into the finale. You’ll fly through them all as you see Britain as you’ve never imagined—and you’ll hope against hope for the freedom that may never come.”—Bookreporter “Rebellion comes to a deadly boil in the final chapter of James’s Dark Gifts alternate history fantasy trilogy (after Tarnished City). . . . [An] intricate tale of ruthless scheming and bloody betrayals backlit by an unquenchable glimmer of hope.”—Publishers Weekly

The Ruin of the Eternal City

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Author: David Karmon

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-06-09

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0199766894

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The Ruin of the Eternal City provides the first systematic analysis of the preservation practices of the popes, civic magistrates, and ordinary citizens of Renaissance Rome. This study offers a new understanding of historic preservation as it occurred during the extraordinary rebuilding of a great European capital city.

City of Ruin

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Author: Mark Charan Newton

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2011-01-14

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 0230752713

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City of Ruin is the second book in Mark Charan Newton's Legends of the Red Sun fantasy series. Villiren is a city of sin that's being torn apart from the inside. Hybrid creatures shamble through shadows and barely human gangs fight turf wars for control of the streets. Amidst this chaos, Commander Brynd Lathraea, commander of the Night Guard, must plan the defence of Viliren against a race that has broken through from another realm and already slaughtered hundreds of thousands of the Empire’s people. When a Night Guard soldier goes missing, Brynd needs help. Investigator Jeryd discovers this is not the only disappearance from the streets of Villiren. It seems that a serial killer of the most horrific kind is on the loose, taking hundreds of people from their own homes. A killer that cannot possibly be human. The entire population of Villiren must unite to face an impossible surge of violent and unnatural enemies or the city will fall. But how can you save a city that's already a ruin?

The Bones of Ruin

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Author: Sarah Raughley

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-10-25

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 1534453571

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An African tightrope walker who can’t die gets embroiled in a secret society’s deadly gladiatorial tournament in this “bloodily spectacular” (Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights) historical fantasy set in an alternate 1880s London, perfect for fans of The Last Magician and The Gilded Wolves. As an African tightrope dancer in Victorian London, Iris is used to being strange. She is certainly an unusual sight for leering British audiences always eager for the spectacle of colonial curiosity. But Iris also has a secret that even “strange” doesn’t capture…​ She cannot die. Haunted by her unnatural power and with no memories of her past, Iris is obsessed with discovering who she is. But that mission gets more complicated when she meets the dark and alluring Adam Temple, a member of a mysterious order called the Enlightenment Committee. Adam seems to know much more about her than he lets on, and he shares with her a terrifying revelation: the world is ending, and the Committee will decide who lives…and who doesn’t. To help them choose a leader for the upcoming apocalypse, the Committee is holding the Tournament of Freaks, a macabre competition made up of vicious fighters with fantastical abilities. Adam wants Iris to be his champion, and in return he promises her the one thing she wants most: the truth about who she really is. If Iris wants to learn about her shadowy past, she has no choice but to fight. But the further she gets in the grisly tournament, the more she begins to remember—and the more she wonders if the truth is something best left forgotten.

Perfect Ruin

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Author: Lauren DeStefano

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-10

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1442480610

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"Sixteen-year-old Morgan Stockhour lives in Internment, a floating city utopia. But when a murder occurs, everything she knows starts to unravel"--

San Fransicko

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Author: Michael Shellenberger

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0063093634

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National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities. Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse. Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the decriminalization of drugs, affordable housing, and alternatives to jail and prison. But as homeless encampments spread, and overdose deaths skyrocketed, Shellenberger decided to take a closer look at the problem. What he discovered shocked him. The problems had grown worse not despite but because of progressive policies. San Francisco and other West Coast cities — Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland — had gone beyond merely tolerating homelessness, drug dealing, and crime to actively enabling them. San Fransicko reveals that the underlying problem isn’t a lack of housing or money for social programs. The real problem is an ideology that designates some people, by identity or experience, as victims entitled to destructive behaviors. The result is an undermining of the values that make cities, and civilization itself, possible.