She travels through Serpythia’s belly and finds an entire world inside, containing all those who were swallowed over the years and were never able to leave. Before it perishes, though, it swallows her. In one final act of resistance, Stadie stabs the serpent. With unexpected help from a trusted friend, Sadie manages to escape, but soon finds herself in front of yet another enemy: Serpythia.

That is, she finds refuge until the angry Queen of Ashthoreth, determined to destroy Sadie, drags her down through the Valley of Mud. Safety is not meant for Sadie: After the Forgotten Waters wash her away, she finds her way to shore, travels through a burnt forest, and finds refuge in a small cabin. The Arrow Garden is a delicately-wrought tale of truth, selfhood, and acceptance, which transcends time in its lyrical exploration of what it means to live. To visit the past or the future, even in imagination, is to change it. Setting out on a hike to a mountain village shrine, away from the charred city, she begins a life to which she is not sure she is entitled, a life which feels like living on the other side of the sky. In wartime Tokyo, Tanaka Mie finds herself wandering the burned-out ruins of her dead parents' fire-bombed home with only hazy recollections of how she survived. When lonely and socially isolated translator, Gareth, takes up traditional Japanese archery in 1990s Bristol, he learns that to study Kyudo is to reach out, to another culture, another time, other people… But when one of them reaches back, two lives that should never have touched become strangely entangled.

And what will Ul-Mellor do when faced with a choice – Amira or his hard-won commission? He and Amira will have to overcome a gulf of cultural and class differences if they're to turn their mutual attraction into a relationship.

Although his detractors call him the Demon Admiral, Amira finds him intelligent, articulate, and very attractive.īut Ul-Mellor is not human and Amira is a princess – far above Ul-Mellor's status on his home world. Amid simmering tensions at the edge of the Empire, Amira renews her acquaintance with Imperial Admiral Ul-Mellor. Pursued by his agents, she races across the galaxy in a desperate search for a safe haven. Summary Princess Amira is ready to start a new life after the death of her husband, but that doesn't include marrying the man her father picks out for her. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! A Matter of Trust - Dryden Universe Greta van der Rol We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog.

A Matter of Trust by Greta van der Rol