Elliott, Kate

Crown of Stars (Crown of Stars, Vol. 7)

In the wake of the cataclysm many new alliances are forming even as old ones dissolve. As Sanglant struggles to legitimize his own leadership, the Aoi are carrying out random attacks-while implicating him as their leader. Stronghand has begun a march of conquest into the heart of Sanglant's realm. Adelheid and Antonia have made an unholy alliance. And Sabella and Duke Conrad are moving to seize Sanglant's crown. Cultures, religions, and races are clashing in what will be the ultimate struggle for control of this strange new world.

Shadow Gate (Crossroads, Book 2)

In the Ruins (Crown of Stars, Vol. 6)

The long-awaited cataclysm has reshaped the very land and seas, and disrupted the war for the empire. Now all who have survived the return of the spell-exiled Aoi lands must find a way to mend their shattered territories and take a stand against their enemies in a power struggle that may forge new alliances-or doom them all.

The Gathering Storm (Crown of Stars, Vol. 5)

Fifth in the Nebula Award-nominated series.

The time of cataclysm is almost here when the land of the Aoi-cast forth from the world long centuries ago by an unimaginably powerful spell-weaving-will at last return to its starting point with disastrous consequences...

Spirit Gate (Crossroads, Book 1)

Prince of Dogs (Crown of Stars, Vol 2)

The Burning Stone (Crown of Stars, Vol. 3)

There is nothing more tragic than legitimate ambition comprehensively thwarted. Kate Elliott's fantasy sequence has a bleak sadness even in its moments of triumph, simply because her heroes and heroines seem as if they are never going to get the chance to be all they could be. Alan, suddenly adopted heir to the local noble, is obliged to marry an anorexic princess whose hobby of heresy extends to fake stigmata; royal courier Liath and more than slightly deranged royal bastard Sanglant find that their love stands in the way of the King's dynastic plans; the prattish monk Ivar runs away from heresy proceedings and hides among a princeling's boon companions and catamites. And while the nobility juggle marriages and churchmen bicker about doctrine, invaders amass on the borders and the world seems booked for cataclysms both political and metaphysical. Elliott has not yet become as popular as she probably deserves--she has a real sense of what even an imaginary medieval world should be like in its pompous scholarship and simple piety, and her characters are interestingly fluid; place Ivar in a cavalry charge, and he does quite well. This third volume sustains the pace and grim tone of its predecessors in the Crown of Stars sequence. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk

In the third volume of this astonishing Nebula Award-nominated fantasy series, the many plot strands created in the first two novels become more tightly interwoven-as the time of the cataclysm nears when people and places long sundered by magic will once again reside in the same time and universe...

"The best thus far...I can now honestly say I am rabid for the next book."-B&N Explorations

"A complex, superbly plotted fantasy universe...run to the bookstore." -Romantic Times

Praise for the Crown of Stars series:

"Well-thought-out, well-structured, and well-crafted... There's a bone-deep reality to the world."-Fantasy & Science Fiction

"Elliott's new high fantasy... proves an entirely captivating affair...a resounding narrative revolving around three appealing characters."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Volume Three in the Nebula Award-nominated fantasy series

King's Dragon (Crown of Stars, Vol. 1)

An Earthly Crown (The Jaran, Book 2; The Sword of Heaven, Book 1)

Jaran (The Jaran, Book 1)

The first book in Kate Elliott's acclaimed Jaran series-the groundbreaking story of a young woman coming of age on an alien planet...and her effect on the human race's survival.