Now she needs to find a killer before they can strike again-and with the doors locked to keep the guilty from escaping, no one is safe.Īs danger draws ever closer to her allies and the people she loves best, Toby will have to race against time to prevent the total political destabilization of the West Coast and to get the convocation back on track. As the only changeling in attendance, Toby is already the target of suspicion and hostility. Naturally, things have barely gotten underway when the first dead body shows up. Now the events she unwittingly set in motion could change the balance of modern Faerie forever, and she has been ordered to appear before a historic convocation of monarchs, hosted by Queen Windermere in the Mists and overseen by the High King and Queen themselves. When she traveled to the Kingdom of Silences to prevent them from going to war with her home, the Kingdom of the Mists, she wasn't expecting to return with a cure for elf-shot and a whole new set of political headaches. Politics have never been October "Toby" Daye's strong suit. This new edition includes the fiftieth-anniversary fully corrected text setting and, for the first time, an extensive new index. The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam Gimli the Dwarf Legolas the Elf Boromir of Gondor and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider. When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.įrom Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Includes the complete appendices and index for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. An astonishing imaginative tour de force."-Daily Telegraph a grand piece of work, grand in both conception and execution. And all the while the armies of the Dark Lord are massing as the One Ring draws ever nearer to the Cracks of Doom. Sam has left his master for dead after a battle with the giant spider, Shelob but Frodo is still alive-now in the foul hands of the Orcs. Gandalf has miraculously returned and defeated the evil wizard, Saruman. Merry and Pippin, captured by Orcs, escape into Fangorn Forest and there encounter the Ents. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, has joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and takes part in the desperate victory of the Hornburg. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind themĪs the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures. Tolkien's epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS Who in Faerie remembered Gillian existed? And what do they stand to gain? No matter how this ends, Toby's life will never be the same.Īlso contains the October Daye novella Suffer A Sea Change. If she can't find Gillian before time runs out, her own child will pay the price. Signs of Faerie's involvement are everywhere, and it's going to take all Toby's nerve and all her allies to get her through this web of old secrets, older hatreds, and new deceits. The only question is whether she's emotionally prepared to survive it. There's no question of whether she'll take the case. What she doesn't need is to be accused of kidnapping her own child by her ex-boyfriend and his new wife, who seems to be harboring secrets of her own. What she doesn't need is the abduction of her estranged human daughter, Gillian. Toby is floundering, unable to help the people she loves most heal. Jazz can't sleep, Sylvester doesn't want to see her, and worst of all, Tybalt has withdrawn from her entirely, retreating into the Court of Cats as he tries to recover from his abduction. In the aftermath of Amandine's latest betrayal, October "Toby" Daye's fragile self-made family is on the verge of coming apart at the seams. A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction. 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
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