Book Review: Mercedes Lackey’s The Fire Rose
Tragedy forces Rosalind Hawkins to swap her treasured existence for one of servitude to a railroad baron halfway across the country into a situation fraught with mystery and perversity.
Tragedy forces Rosalind Hawkins to swap her treasured existence for one of servitude to a railroad baron halfway across the country into a situation fraught with mystery and perversity.
Yesterday, the Star Kingdom of Manticore was a small, unimportant interstellar backwater with little need for a navy and even less interest in paying for one. But now Manticore is a target. The invitation to the Andermani Empire is welcome and yet Travis, Lisa, and Gavin find themselves squarely in the path of the storm, and before Travis, Lisa, and Gavin can accomplish anything else, they first have to survive.
In trying to get enough proof to get the understaffed authorities of her pioneer planet to act, Stephanie will be called upon to attempt things she never imaged doing—including going undercover into the wilds of the late-night club scene, a realm where her faithful treecat guardian, Lionheart, cannot follow . . .
Together, the Robin, the Kestrel, and the Ghost will foil a plot to drive all music forever from the land – but first, the Robin and the Kestrel must tame the killer Ghost.
Lieutenant Travis Long believes in the rules and that an officer does his duty. There are forces, however, who don’t believe they need the Royal Manticoran Navy. What does a sleepy little single-system star nation on the outer edge of the explored galaxy need with a navy?
A brag made in anger finds Rune at risk of death, unless she can keep the Ghost of Skull Hill enthralled. It’s a musical performance that could end in death or the beginning of a whole new life.
Captain Aivars Terekhov follows in Duchess Harrington’s footsteps as he maneuvers to protect the Talbott System and the Lynx Junction with the help of Lt. Abigail Hearns, the first Grayson woman to go through Saganami, and Helen Zilwicki who is on her first snotty cruise, bringing her already vast experience with hand-to-hand combat and her father’s spycraft aboard.
The story of the battlefield where it all began to change between Man and Faerie, and the betrayal required to save them all.
Defeating the Blackthorns wasn’t enough, for the village of Silence, Maine, is still under threat. It will be up to Staci, a mage-in-training, and her friends to save the people of Silence.
The enemy was the Troft. Now they’re our own: the Dominion of Man, and they’ve come to enslave our world. But the Moreau and Broom Cobra clans won’t stand by.