![]() ![]() ![]() Yet even as Tiger learns more about his gifts, Del comes face to face with the daughter she left behind so many years before. ![]() Now, with the world around them falling victim to a malignant Northern-born magic, Tiger gathers Del and his adult son, Neesha, to end the magic threatening the world-and discovers, along the journey, yet another element of magecraft within himself. He is constantly challenged to death-dances where rules, and oaths, no longer apply. By doing so, he made himself a target of men formerly his colleagues, now sworn enemies. Death-dances are few and far between the goal is simply to win within the confines of “the circle.”īut Tiger is an outcast, a man who attained the highest level of achievement at the training school he attended faster than anyone before him, only to voluntarily break all oaths in order to save Del. Tiger and Del have settled into semi-retirement to raise their daughter, establishing a school for those who wish to become sword-dancers, part of a highly ritualized rite in which specially trained sword-fighters are hired to settle feuds among rich and powerful desert princes. ![]() Sword-Bearer marks a return to the vivid world of Jennifer Roberson’s highly popular Sword-Dancer saga, featuring iconic characters Tiger-the South’s most famous and gifted sword-dancer-and Del, a Northern-born woman and expert sword-singer. A return to the classic fantasy world of Tiger and Del in book eight of the highly popular Sword-Dancer saga. ![]()
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![]() It was not until he started working with the poet Alan Ross the poet and magazine editor as his patron that he found success. However, what people do not know is that this novel was not his first literary attempt as he had destroyed several manuscripts before that. He has now been writing for more than three dozen years. He published “The Sweet Shop Owner” in 1980 aged 31 and has never looked back since. When he was in his twenties, he traveled to Greece and for a while lived there as he taught English as a Second Language. Graham is thus a baby boomer and loves the typical things of his generation such as traveling and being carefree. Swift was born the youngest of two siblings born to a civil service clerk who at some point fought in the Second World War as a fighter pilot in the Royal Navy. It is from these two colleges that he graduated with his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. ![]() ![]() The author spent much of her childhood in London and went to Cambridge’s Queens College and York University’s Dulwich College. Graham Swift is an English short story author and novelist whose sophisticated psychological works are an exploration of the effects of family history on modern domestic living. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He volunteers to help with the manhunt for his mystery man, a wealthy restaurateur named Harrison Knowles. Noah's vacation is thrown into upheaval because he can't just let it go when he learns that the mysterious man who turned his life upside down went missing. On his first night in sunny Florida, a chance encounter with a handsome man in a bar bathroom jumpstarts something in Noah that's been dormant for all those months. But it's been a tough eighteen months since the death of his lover, so he's determined to make the most of it. "A steamy chance encounter with a handsome man in a bar bathroom turns Noah's whole life upside down when the stranger goes missing." Hard-working NYPD cop Noah Tobin didn't even want to go on vacation. ![]() ![]() |