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Wind and Fire: A Deadly Combination Since the Beginning of all, the Fire Clans have fought the Ancient, the elemental fire at the heart of the world, with the binding power of the Firedance. Suddenly, the Ancient has grown clever and bold, and the Dance has begun to fail. Now fire is running rampant in the village of Annam, where the Delvers mine the precious containment stone that is the only other safeguard against fire. Only Jetta ak'Kal, a failed master, and her partner, the most inept journeyman in all of the Fire Clans, stand in its way. To Jetta's horror, fire isn't the only danger in Annam. Windriders live there, masters of air, the Ancient's most deadly fuel. With danger riding on every breath of wind, if Jetta fails, no place will be safe from the deadly firestorm...

Dr. Willoughby Thorne always wanted to work for the Smithsonian. Instead, he ended up the curator of the Museum of the Arcane, chasing restless artifacts imbued with their own ideas of their place in history. Aided by a museum staff that could kindly be called eccentric, it is Will's duty to keep the objects from corrupting an unsuspecting public...even when the museum has other ideas!

Love conquers all-or does it? Both King Traven and his brother Alarion are eagerly awaiting Traven's wedding, for Alarion's will soon follow. But neither have reckoned on the malice of the woman who was not chosen by either of them. Fixated and clever, she lays a trap for Alarion, not knowing that she herself is being used by someone else. And his plans for Alarion have nothing to do with petty vengeance. The Glassmaker, once Alarion's best friend, now leads the fanatical tribe in Nemistak that hopes to make Alarion their long-awaited messiah. Appalled by a creed that will not die no matter what he does, Alarion finds himself inadvertently fanning the flames when he is kidnapped and dragged to the Glassmaker's stronghold. Every word he says seems to feed into tribal myths, threatening daily to launch a bloody holy war against his own people. But if the Glassmaker's suspicious followers discover Alarion's secret plans for escape, he and three of his closest friends will die in a heathen bonfire. While Traven launches a desperate rescue, the gods of Ariel see an opportunity to upset Fate's bid to reshape the planet's future. Death redoubles his rebellion against her; earthquakes in the desert hint that Stoneshaker may be reviving; and the Thousandth God prowls the periphery, wanting to help both Fate and Alarion, but unable to combat his inborn yearning toward chaos. In a fearful hollow in the Covan Hills, gods and mortals collide in a confrontation that will change everything.

Fate has touched young Alarion Aravon, setting a fearsome scar on his chest and leaving him snared in the machinations of the god Stoneshaker. But Alarion and the wild, ungovernable Thousandth God have their own ideas about how the future should shape up-and they don't include going meekly along with anyone's plans.

On a planet long forgotten by Earth, two royal brothers are drawn into a war sparked by human ambition, but it is the artificial gods of Ariel whose strange power ensnares them in a greater conflict whose stakes only Fate understands. One human life is the key-only Alarion Aravon does not take kindly to being a pawn.

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"Leave singing to the Hag to Fifth Ranks, lad, if you don't want to end up a witless madman shrieking to the storm from a cell in the Tower of Winds." Good advice, all in all. Sheshan ak'Kal lives to regret that he did not heed it. Desperate to remember the windsong that once let him sing even the great storms off the sea to tatters, he forgets for one foolish moment of shared rage that Wind's gentle sister is the angry, vengeful--and quite insane--Hag. With the Hag stalking him across Metrenna, singing a wild, terrible note that only he can hear, Sheshan discovers that weaving torrents of living air between his hands is no longer enough to keep her at bay. For his clan, his life, and a fragile new love he has found with the most unexpected of women, Sheshan must learn a new song, and become what none of his people have managed in millennia--a Windrider indeed.

The River Melth is normally a gentle, exuberant daughter of her mother Water, but not this spring. Endless rain has raised the water level so high that even Neshuaas Riverborn has begun to fear the river she has sailed all her life, a river that has always obeyed her instinctive commands. When Melth in fury flings a devastating flash flood at the town of Southbridge, Nes finds herself not only separated from her ship, but swept away on a quest to discover the source of Melth's distress. For an untrained young woman who has scarcely set foot ashore in her life, travelling with an exotic company of talented strangers is less a source of wonder than of daily embarrassment as she runs up hard against all the things she doesn't know. How is she supposed to learn to hear-and tame-all the voices of fresh water with a Firedancer quietly pursuing her? Alternately humiliated, angry, frightened, over-confident, and confused by her feelings for a man not of her clan, Nes struggles to bring her talent to bear on a mystery that could overwhelm her whole world. For if elemental Water herself has chosen to join her rebellious siblings Wind and Fire in attacking Earth Mother, where in Metrenna will there be anywhere left for mortals to stand?

Imagine being the most girl-shy guy at court, tasked to facilitate your brother the King's wedding...and two of the candidates are fixated on you. Poor Alarion Aravon begins to suspect that the artificial goddess Fate has her own reasons for putting those particular girls in his path-but he's trying hard not to believe in her. Mortal means are required to straighten out the mess, but he quickly he comes to regret having ignored the willing and ambitious courtesans who have pursued him for years. He could really use that experience about now. Because one of those girls will do absolutely anything to be Queen.