A world ruled by elves. One child they fear. The legendary saga — complete at last.
In a world ruled by Elven overlords and sustained by human magic, the Halfblood prophecy was forgotten—until now. Experience the complete, revised saga that defined a generation of high fantasy. Created by two Grandmasters (Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton) the saga is finally complete with the long-awaited finale by Mercedes Lackey & Ben Ohlander.
4 eBooks, Revised & Illustrated
1 Epic Conclusion
Begin with Elvenbane — eBook, $9.99
★ 4.7 on Amazon · 15,000+ Goodreads ratings — by NYT-bestselling Grand Master Mercedes Lackey & Grand Master Andre Norton
From Grand Masters Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton — the landmark dragon-and-rebellion saga, revised, illustrated, and complete at last.
The elves rule a world where humans are property. The one thing they fear is a child who is not fully human.
For a thousand years the immortal elven lords have bred, collared, drugged, and discarded their human slaves at a whim. They fear revolt — but they fear something else far more: a halfblood child born with gifts no slave should possess. The elves have a name for such children. Wizards.
They hunt them, execute them, erase them, because prophecy whispers that one of them will rise as the Elvenbane.
When Serina Daeth is cast into the desert for carrying her master's child, she dies giving birth beneath a merciless sun. Her daughter should have died with her. Instead the infant is found by Alara, a dragon shaman who saves the strange little creature on impulse and carries her home to the hidden lairs of the Kin.
The Elvenbane has shattered the certainty of the immortal elven lords. The halfblood wizards they thought destroyed have survived, dragons have revealed themselves, and the old order has learned to fear the children it once hunted in secret.
Within the House of Treves, Sheyrena lives as a dutiful elven daughter, dressed, displayed, and bartered toward a marriage chosen for politics rather than love. She dreams of dragons, freedom, and a life beyond the suffocating walls of her father's estate, but dreams are dangerous in a house where women are possessions and obedience is survival.
Her brother Lorryn has an even deadlier secret. Raised as the heir to an elven lord, he is in truth a halfblood wizard, protected only by illusion and his mother's sacrifice. Now the High Lords, terrified by the rise of the Elvenbane, are testing their own children for hidden human blood. If Lorryn is exposed, he will be executed.
Their only possible path leads toward the very legends their world fears most: the outlaw wizards, the hidden dragon Kin, and Shana, the girl called Elvenbane. But the dragons and wizards are building a new refuge of their own, and not every ally who offers rescue can be trusted.
Before Sheyrena can escape the cage built for her, she must decide what she is willing to risk for her brother, her freedom, and a world no longer ruled by fear.
An epic of hidden heirs, dragon magic, court intrigue, and forbidden bloodlines, in the tradition of Anne McCaffrey's Pern. Elvenblood continues the saga begun in Elvenbane — newly revised and illustrated, and complete at last with the long-awaited finale.
From Grand Masters Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton — Book Three of the legendary Halfblood Chronicles.
The Elvenbane has awakened more than halfblood magic. Across the elven lands, rebellion spreads: young lords defy their fathers, human slaves slip their chains, and the immortal Great Lords face a threat they can no longer dismiss as rumor or prophecy.
Kyrtian V'dyll Lord Prastaran has always been considered an eccentric. While other elven lords indulge in court intrigue and cruelty, Kyrtian studies military tactics, trains his human "slaves" as soldiers, and rules an estate where loyalty is earned rather than forced by magic. His enemies call him ridiculous, provincial, and unfit to rule. They are about to learn how dangerous an underestimated man can be.
When the Great Lords need a commander capable of crushing the Young Lords' Rebellion, Kyrtian's strange obsession with strategy becomes his greatest weapon—and his greatest peril. If he succeeds, he may be ordered next against Shana, the Elvenbane, and the hidden stronghold of the halfblood wizards and dragons. If he refuses, he risks his estate, his people, and his life.
But Kyrtian is not the only one playing a dangerous game. Ambitious rivals move to destroy him, the Council hungers for control, and the rebels, wizards, dragons, and humans must decide whether an elven lord can ever truly be trusted.
Before the old order falls, enemies will have to become allies—and one lord born to privilege must choose between the world that made him and the people who may be its only hope.
An epic of dragon magic, military strategy, slave rebellion, court intrigue, and impossible alliances, in the tradition of Anne McCaffrey's Pern. Elvenborn continues the saga begun in Elvenbane and Elvenblood — newly revised and illustrated, and complete at last with the long-awaited finale.
After a twenty-year wait, the legendary Halfblood Chronicles reaches its finale in Book Four — written by Mercedes Lackey and Ben Ohlander, in memory of Andre Norton.
The elves did not conquer because they were strong. They fled because something stronger was hunting them.
On the elves' original homeworld, the last great cities stand behind failing shields while monstrous Predators batter at the walls. Lord Haldeen Gatekeeper knows the truth his rulers refuse to face: the creatures are not mindless beasts. They are learning, adapting, and closing in.
Desperate to save his city and the rank he has clawed up from nothing, Haldeen reopens the forbidden World Gate that once carried the elven exiles to a new world. His secret experiment sends a living probe through the ancient portal — and drags back something he cannot begin to understand: Lady Triana, not long ago one of the most dangerous players in the courts of the world her people once conquered.
Triana has survived intrigue, rivalry, and every poisonous game of elven power. She has never survived being powerless. Here, on her own kind's first world, she is no one — collared, stripped of her magic and status, catalogued as a specimen and worked as a slave. The collar her people perfected to break others now closes around her own throat. Her one ally is the creature she names Rock: another captive, chained by the same brutal magic, as trapped as she is.
If Haldeen succeeds, the Gate will open wide, and a starving elven civilization will pour through into the world the exiles once seized — a world now shaken by rebellion, by dragons, and by the very magic they tried to exterminate. If Triana fails, she will remain what her captors believe her to be: a useful sample, a convenient slave, one more body crushed as their world falls to the Predators.
An epic of portal magic, monstrous warfare, forbidden experiments, survival, and impossible alliances, in the tradition of Anne McCaffrey's Pern. Elvenbred completes the saga begun in Elvenbane, Elvenblood, and Elvenborn — at last.
Begin with Elvenbane — eBook, $9.99
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