Amazon's ABNA 2011 - the Prophecy of the Kings
Time
For anyone else this is the tick of a clock, a rabbit running along a hedgerow, the cry of a new born babe.
For Kaplyn, time is enduring agony.
Limbs being turned to stone in crushing slowness.
Regret.
Betrayal … and horror.
Vastra, his betrayer, looks on. Emotionless.
An imp hovers by his side.
A harbinger of doom.
Carrion spawn.
Evil.
A cry escapes parched lips. Kaplyn's feral eyes roll back, revealing their whiteness. His friends are by his side; already the light has gone from their eyes. Lars, solid and dependable, and Lomar, a prince of the Alvalah. Sad mockeries of the men they once were, stalwart companions undeserving of their fate: a fate that has already set in motion events to rock the very foundations of worlds.
This is Vastra's hour. The crystal in his hand promises such greatness. Its glow softly illuminates the tableau that was his friends. A smile touches his lips. He has won.
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This is the Prophecy of the Kings, a tale that sweeps across three worlds, those of men, dragons and demons.
Unknowingly, Kaplyn and his companion's actions have triggered a prophecy that future generations will live to rue. The enemy has not been idle; krell, grakyn and men of both Trosgarth and Aldrace are gathering. Priests's of Ryoch, omnipotent warriors whose shaol enable them to communicate across the field of battle, seek to undermine the power of the Old Ones.
The sun is setting on <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Thrace. Its golden battlements dimmed by the growing gloom of war.
The pages of this epic tale will mesmerise as the plot takes you on a roller coaster journey from the tallest mountains to the very pits of Hell.
Dare you turn the pages?
