Resultados para "Los Watson" en Histórica

Giappone, Regno di Yamatai, secondo secolo. La nobile Jingu, scelta come moglie dall'Imperatore Chuai, si vede costretta ad abbandonare l'arte della spada e l'amato Hondawake. Quando però l'orgoglio di Chuai attira l'ira di un kami, la fanciulla si ritrova d'improvviso vedova, con una profezia a gravarle sul capo e il cuore avvelenato dal desiderio di vendetta. Impugnando la spada dell'Imperatore, Jingu guiderà l'esercito di Yamatai verso una terra sospesa fra i mondi, abitata da sinistre creature.

Warrior queens and Roman invaders do battle in the final volume of this thrilling epic fantasy trilogy. Caesar's soldiers have murdered, massacred, and pillaged their way through Gaul and loom on the far side of the sea, ready to descend upon Britain; with them are an unstoppable legion of men twisted by dark magic. Somehow Queen Lowa must repel the invasion, although her best general is dead and her young druid powerless.

You can't change your fate - so throw yourself into battle, because you'll end the day either a hero or drinking mead in the halls of the gods. That's what Finn's tribe believe. But Finn wants to live. When his settlement is massacred by a hostile tribe, Finn plus several friends and rivals must make their escape across a brutal, unfamiliar landscape, and to survive, Finn will fight harder than he's ever fought before.

Legends aren't born. They're forged. Dug Sealskinner is a down-on-his-luck mercenary travelling south to join up with King Zadar's army. But he keeps rescuing the wrong people. First, Spring, a child he finds scavenging on the battlefield, and then Lowa, one of Zadar's most fearsome warriors, who's vowed revenge on the king for her sister's execution. Now Dug's on the wrong side of that thousands-strong army he hoped to join ­- and worse, Zadar has bloodthirsty druid magic on his side.

Brought to you by Penguin. Thomas Cale has been running from his enemies. Raised and trained in an underground programme - the Sanctuary - he was sent to destroy God's greatest mistake, mankind itself. Cale is a paradox: arrogant and innocent, generous and pitiless. Feared and revered by those...