The Legend Of The Blood Stone

Download or read book The Legend of the Blood Stone written by E. B. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped in the past with the knowledge of the future In 2012, a woman cuts her hand and picks up a strange colored stone - Suddenly she is staring into the eyes of an angry Powhatan warrior. And the only town nearby is Jamestown, circa 1622. Maggie McMillan wakes up one day as a college student, yet ends the day as the Red Woman: A legendary Time Walker that every loyal Powhatan brave wants to kill. Captured by Winkeohkwet, a warrior who is torn between his duty to kill her and his desire to keep her, she is thrust into a life she had only read about in history books. Hunted and feared by both the Powhatan and the English, she struggles to find a way home while Winkeohkwet plots to keep her there. Maggie fights to survive as she finds herself entangled in the Indian Massacre of 1622, and Winkeohkwet sees everything he ever believed in shattered by the knowledge she holds. As they battle against each other and the message she brings from the future, she must decide whether to return to her own time, or to make a life in the past with the man who holds her heart captive.

Download or read book The Bloodstone written by Arlene F. Marks and published by Brain Lag. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen years have passed since the corrupt Council of the First was purged. Since then, the Nash'terel, shapeshifting essence vampires from a distant world, have resumed their quiet lives on Earth, hiding their true nature from their human prey. In small town Ontario, Travis lives with his adoptive grandpas, dividing his time between school and hockey practice. Everyone, including Travis, thinks he's an ordinary Canadian teen, until a series of uncontrolled shapeshifts and a growing telekinetic talent reveal his Nash'terel heritage. Having "superpowers" sounds great, until he has to put his dream of NHL stardom on hold and move across the country to train them. He may not be happy, but he's going to need control of those powers in order to survive. Someone has put a bounty on dashkra, the alien mineral that all Nash'terel carry inside them. While Travis struggles to adjust to his new existence, his grandpas and their contacts must work to find out who has turned their kind into prey—yet again.

Download or read book The Legend of the Buffalo Stone written by Dawn Sprung and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authentic Blackfoot legend captures the culture and landscape of the Great Plains in the time before the arrival of settlers.

Download or read book Bloodstone written by Karl Edward Wagner and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kane. The Mystic Swordsman becomes the living link with the awesome power of a vanished superrace. In the dark swamp where toadmen croak and cower, slumbers a secret relic of the days when creatures from the stars ruled the Earth. In the booty captured in a savage raid, Kane discovers a ring, a bloodstone, which is key to the power that lies buried, inactive but not dead, within the forest. Now Kane, whose bloody sword has slashed and killed for the glory of other rulers, can scheme to rule the Earth - himself!

Download or read book The Scrolls of the Ancients written by Robert Newcomb and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2004-06-15 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Plenty of adventure and magic . . . continues Robert Newcomb’s tradition of mixing adventure with an interesting and well-realized magical world.”—SF Site Prince Tristan and his twin sister, Shailiha, are the Chosen Ones, prophesied to unite the opposing magics of the dark Vagaries and the benevolent Vigors. But before they can fulfill their destiny, they must search out the mysterious Scrolls of the Ancients which hold the key to unlocking great mystical secrets. They are not the only ones on a dire quest. Krassus, a devoted servant of the Vagaries, has located one of the Scrolls and through it has attained great and ominous powers. Now he needs but one thing: a man who unknowingly possesses magic in his blood almost as potent as that of the Chosen Ones. Tristan and Shailiha must find that man before Krassus’s dark enchantments turn him into the most dangerous weapon of evil the world has ever known—if it’s not already too late. . . .

Download or read book Sword Stone Table written by Swapna Krishna and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the vast lore surrounding King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table, comes an anthology of gender-bent, race-bent, LGBTQIA+ inclusive retellings. Featuring stories by: Alexander Chee • Preeti Chhibber • Roshani Chokshi • Sive Doyle • Maria Dahvana Headley • Ausma Zehanat Khan • Daniel M. Lavery • Ken Liu • Sarah MacLean • Silvia Moreno-Garcia • Jessica Plummer • Anthony Rapp • Waubgeshig Rice • Alex Segura • Nisi Shawl • S. Zainab Williams Here you’ll find the Lady of the Lake reimagined as an albino Ugandan sorceress and the Lady of Shalott as a wealthy, isolated woman in futuristic Mexico City; you'll see Excalibur rediscovered as a baseball bat that grants a washed-up minor leaguer a fresh shot at glory and as a lost ceremonial drum that returns to a young First Nations boy the power and the dignity of his people. There are stories set in Gilded Age Chicago, '80s New York, twenty-first century Singapore, and space; there are lesbian lady knights, Arthur and Merlin reborn in the modern era for a second chance at saving the world and falling in love—even a coffee shop AU. Brave, bold, and groundbreaking, the stories in Sword Stone Table will bring fresh life to beloved myths and give long-time fans a chance to finally see themselves in their favorite legends.

Download or read book Bloodstone written by Allan Boroughs and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Are you afraid of the dark?' asked the spectre. 'You should be. Everyone would be afraid if they knew what lived there.' Life has changed dramatically for India Bentley since discovering Ironheart a year ago. Instead of scraping out a living in London, she's been travelling the world, learning to tech-hunt and doing her best to stay out of trouble. Unfortunately, trouble has a habit of finding her. Falsely accused of an assassination attempt, India is on the run with her mentor, Verity Brown, and scientist Professor Moon: a man obsessed with finding an ancient artefact known as the Bloodstone, the key to a source of unlimited energy, which he believes can be found in the lost city of Atlantis. Pursued by the ghosts of her past, India must be prepared to risk everything to save her friends . . . and the world.