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Award-winning author Catherine Asaro, creator of The Skolian Empire , creates her first full-length fantasy novel in a world rich with magic and power. Fans who caught a glimpse of the kingdom of Aronsdale in "Moonglow" from the Charmed Destinies collection are delighted with the result! What was the use of being a powerful mage if you couldn't learn the spells? Once Chime had been the most promising mage... (more)

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 12

The Ruby Dice (Skolian Empire)

by Catherine Asaro

Two men, two empires. Jaibriol ruled the Eubian Concord: over two trillion people across more than a thousand worlds and habitats. Kelric ruled the Skolian Imperialate. War had come before—ten years ago, Jaibriol had lost his parents in the final battle of the Radiance War between the Concord and the Imperialate—and it might come again, devastating vast swathes of the galaxy. Neither Jaibriol nor Kelric wanted... (more)

Lost Continent: Book 2

The Misted Cliffs

by Catherine Asaro

Award winning author Catherine Asaro, creator of The Skolian Empire , returns to the world of Aronsdale, a place rich with magic and power. One generation after war had nearly destroyed three nations, evil was returning. And only Mel Dawnfield's daring sacrifice could stop it. The promise of peace rested on this young woman's noble vow: to marry Cobalt the Dark heir to a family of legendary cruelty. With... (more)

Lost Continent: Book 3

The Dawn Star

by Catherine Asaro

High in the Misted Cliffs lives a magic unlike any other. With no teacher to guide her, no mentor to discourage her from the impossible, Mel Dawnfield pushed her magic to its limits -- and surpassed them. Only to find that her powers aren't enough to halt burgeoning rebellion within her husband's fledgling realm -- or a plot devised to strike at the very heart of Mel's family. Mel's mage strength has... (more)

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 9

Skyfall

by Catherine Asaro

The Birth of an Empire Skyfall goes back to the very roots of Skolia, showing how a chance meeting on a backwater planet forges a vast interstellar empire. Eldrinson, a provincial ruler on a primitive planet, is plagued by inner demons. But when he meets Roca, a beautiful and mysterious woman from the stars, he whisks her away to his mountain retreat, inadvertently starting a great interstellar war, and... (more)

Charmed Destinies

Counting Crows; Drusilla's Dream; Moonglow

by Catherine Asaro, Mercedes Lackey, Rachel Lee

Three new stories of timeless love and tantalizing fantasy . . . "Counting Crows" by Mercedes Lackey In Lady Gwynhefar's dark, lonely court, her only ally was noble Sir Elloran, a warrior willing to fight for her honor. But would her powerful spell capture his heart -- or tumble the kingdom into chaos? "Drusilla's Dream" by USA TODAY bestselling author Rachel Lee Every night Drusilla... (more)

Primary Inversion (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 1

Primary Inversion (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

by Catherine Asaro

The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster-than-light communication. But war with the rival empire of the Traders seems imminent, a war that can only lead to slavery for the Skolians or the destruction of both sides. Destructive skirmishes have already occurred. A desperate attempt must be made to avert total disaster.

Catch The Lightning (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 2

Catch The Lightning (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

by Catherine Asaro

In the distant future, the Skolian empire rules one third of the human galaxy, and is the most powerful of all. For the ruling family has the power of telepathy, and through it, the ability to communicate faster than light across the interstellar space. but their most determined enemy, the traders, who thrive on human pain, need to interbreed with a Skolian to gain their powers. And now they have her.

Spherical Harmonic (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 7

Spherical Harmonic (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

by Catherine Asaro

Separated for decades by circumstance and political machinations, the Ruby Dynasty, hereditary rulers of Skolia, struggle to bring together the tattered remnants of their family in the shadow of a disastrous interstellar war. Too many have died, others are presumed lost, yet Dyhianna, the Ruby Pharaoh, must move quickly if they are reassume their rightful place as rulers of the Skolian Empire.

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 11

The Final Key

by Catherine Asaro

Catherine Asaro has won numerous awards for her Saga of the Skolian Empire novels, including the Nebula Award and two Romantic Times awards for Best SF Novel. Combining cutting edge scientific theory with grand romantic adventure, this series represents space opera at its finest. The Final Key is the second half of the story arc known as Triad , which began in Schism . Schism ended with the Skolian Empire... (more)

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 5

Ascendant Sun

by Catherine Asaro

Ascendant Sun is a stand-alone novel in the same universe as the Nebula Award finalist The Last Hawk, in which Kelric, a prince of Imperial Skolia, crashed on the planet Coba. Now eighteen years later he has escaped Coba and returned home--only to find Skolia in chaos. In the aftermath of the Radiance War, all surviving members of his family are prisoners of Earth or the Trader empire. Only Kelric ... (more)

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 10

Schism

by Catherine Asaro

In 2002, Catherine Asaro won the Nebula Award for The Quantum Rose , the sixth novel in her Saga of the Skolian Empire. This very same novel was also named Best SF Novel by the Romantic Times . Schism: Part One of Triad is the tenth novel in this multiple award-winning series, and represents an excellent entry point into the series. For Schism harkens back to the early years of the Skolian Empire, back to... (more)

Alpha

by Catherine Asaro

The creator of a proscribed network of rogue Als and androids has been destroyed, his multiple copies deleted. Except for one. Alpha: a female android who seems to possess a conscience - so much so that her execution is delayed. Big mistake. Now, on the run, and with her former captor as hostage, Alpha moves to activate a long dormant master-plan - a plan that may well include the end of humanity and the violent... (more)

The Moon's Shadow (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 8

The Moon's Shadow (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

by Catherine Asaro

At the age of seventeen the young nobleman named Jaibriol Qox became ruler of a vast galactic empire-- and lost everything he had ever valued. Born of a clandestine liaison between a renegade daughter of the Skolian Imperialate and a scion of the genetically engineered Eubian Traders, Jai Qox grew up in exile, unaware of the powers that coursed through his noble blood. In the waning days of the bloody Radiance... (more)

Sunrise Alley

by Catherine Asaro

When the shipwrecked stranger washed up, nearly drowned, on the beach near research scientist Samantha Bryton's home, she was unaware that he was something more than human: an experiment conducted by Charon, a notorious criminal and practitioner of illegal robotics and android research. The man said his name was Turner Pascal - but Pascal was dead, killed in a car wreck. Then, she found that Charon was... (more)

Lost Continent: Book 4

The Fire Opal

by Catherine Asaro

Deep in the sun-drenched desert, priestess Ginger-Sun carries the power of shape mages. And whispers abound: Is she descended from the beloved Sunset Goddess, or are her nighttime rituals filled with wickedness? Ginger herself is uncertain, until a stranger is left for dead at her feet. Thence her magic begins to burn. Fate makes Ginger the stranger's wife and therefore a target for those who would murder... (more)

Irresistible Forces

by Mary Jo Putney, Jo Beverley, Catherine Asaro

New York Times bestselling authors Mary Jo Putney, Jo Beverley, and Lois McMaster Bujold join forces with award-winning authors Catherine Asaro, Jennifer Roberson, and Deb Stover in this all-new anthology of original stories proving that love can conquer all...even the boundaries of time and space. From sixteenth-century Britain to the farthest reaches of outer space, from medieval adventures to tales of... (more)

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 4

The Radiant Seas

by Catherine Asaro

Living in exile on a deserted planet, Sauscony and Jaibriol, each the heir to an interstellar empire, become entangled in the machinations of the Skolian Empire. Interstellar war erupts and Jaibriol is snatched away to be the unwilling ruler of the Highton Aristos. Sauscony must lead an invading space fleet to rescue him from his own Empire-without revealing that they are married. With much of interstellar... (more)

The Quantum Rose (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

Saga of the Skolian Empire: Book 6

The Quantum Rose (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)

by Catherine Asaro

A New Adventure in the Saga of the Skolian Empire. Kamoj Argali is the young ruler of an impoverished province on a backward planet. To keep her people from starving, she has agreed to marry Jax Ironbridge, the boorish and brutal ruler of a prosperous province. But before Argali and Ironbridge are wed, a mysterious stranger from a distant planet sweeps in and forces Kamoj into marriage, throwing her world into... (more)

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