Desperate Alliances

by Cory Daniells and Rowena Cory Daniells

In a land of enchantment and betrayal, an empress sworn to a new future must face the world she left behind. . . With her wine-dark eyes and silver hair, Imoshen is the last T'En empress--blessed with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553581031
• ISBN13: 9780553581034
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Bantam
• Length: 421 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 7.9"

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O Warrior Mine

Three warriors vie for love and land with single-minded purpose, sorted haunted pasts and noble dreams of righting a war torn country.Blazing passions sore midst heart-stopping peril to friends and countrymen as the battle for Fair Isle sparks up with barrelling breakneck pace.Who will win the last T'En princess' heart? The magnificent barbarian captor or the fearsome beauty, sorcerous renegade Roethe? who with relentless unwavering pursuit marches to his own drum to regain Fair Isle and the women pledged to him with a sacred bonding ritual as old and as binding as time? I liked least the part about the T'En baby born too soon who therefore loses some of his powers. Also the part about the blinding of the last pure T'En male-altho his powers could (with time) be restored. I liked best the idea that the supposedly 'bad guy' lasted through thick and thin with honor and grace, to become a helpmate to restore Fair Isle. I loved that idea. I could not have asked for a better ending.

will appeal to lovers of epic and romantic fantasy

Reothe, the last T'En warrior, thought to marry Imoshen, the last T'En empress, when the Ghebite General and his warriors invaded their island home of Fair Isle. To insure that her people would survive, Imoshen married the General and gave him an heir. In time she came to love Tulkhan and their marriage was more than a political merger.Tulkhan and the Empress yearn only for peace so they can enjoy life but circumstances drive a wedge between them. Reothe still wants Imoshen and if truth were known, she loves him in a way she can never love the General. Yet when Tulkan's half-brother tries to take Fair Isle by force. Tulkhan, Imoshen and Reothe are forced into an alliance, using T'En magic and brute force, that might bring the powerful Ghebite empire to its knees.This is the third and final novel in "The last T'En" trilogy and DESPERATE ALLIANCES is as good as it's two predecessors. Cory Daniels ties up all the loose ends and answers all the remaining questions so that readers of this sword-and-sorcery romantic fantasy will feel totally satiated upon completion of this novel. Ms. Daniels is a first-class storyteller whose words will appeal to lovers of epic and romantic fantasy.Harriet Klausner