Midnight Daylight, Ravens own story

From suburban Oregon to the wilds of Alaska, nighttime sunlight is a big memoir of patience, and the sheer guts of 1 woman's trip. She has.
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What runs the generators that move air and water within the Keep in a world without electricity or machines? When a crew of rag-tag magicians arrives back at the Keep, it is the knowledge found by the girls that begins to give some hope to the situation. Published by Del Rey books, March, The Armies of Daylight After a force is deployed to seek out the Nests of the Dark, there is some hope that they can be wiped out with the new flame-throwers Rudy has discovered in the abandoned laboratories within the Keep.

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With the departure of Ingold, Rudy finds himself personae non grata with Minalde's brother, and sentenced to death, while the rest of the wizards are exiled from the Keep. To have any hope of getting home again, Gil has to find a way to save the wizards from their fate. But when Ingold finally re-appears, she and Rudy have to make a decision. After three months in the strange world, do they return to California and the lives they left behind? Published by Del Rey books, July, Mother of Winter Five years after the original books and the vanquishing of the Dark, things are anything but perfect in the Keep of Dare.

Between the persistent slunch devouring the crops, the strange creatures crawling periodically from it who are attacking wizards, and the coming of icestorms, life seems as perilous as it once was. Ingold and Gil travel to the South to search out three strange mages under Saycotal Xyam - the Mother of Winter, a mountain in the South - who may be causing the changes in weather and the slunch itself.

After an attack by one of the strange slunch-born creatures, Gil begins changing, fighting down the new violent impulses that are telling her to kill Ingold. In the Keep of Dare, Rudy has found new answers to the original riddle of the Keep itself - how it works, how it was made, and why it was there, with the help of Tir, now old enough to access the ancestral memories of his lineage. Although it's said that this book can be read without having read the previous books, I would recommend not doing that, simply because you'll have more fun if you already know Ingold, Rudy, and Gil.

Published by Del Rey books, October, Locus award nominee fantasy for Well, this doesn't have anything to do with the book itself, but I really thought that the woman on the front cover looked a little like Hambly herself minus the excess decorations, and the lack of hair. Icefalcon's Quest The poor people of the Keep of Dare. Just when they think that everything is going well again, some new disaster strikes. Two years have passed since Mother of Winter , and the Keep-dwellers have learned to live with the slunch.

The hydroponics tanks are churning out enough food to live off of, and the ice in the north is still advancing. Ingold is gone on another book-foraging quest, this time leaving both Gil and Rudy behind. But strange things begin to happen after the Icefalcon brings in two strangers, victims of a bandit attack not far from the Keep. Although the Icefalcon believes he recognizes the man, he cannot remember where he knows him from. The man's niece claims to be able to channel the spirit of a mage from the Times Before. Before Gil-Shalos can question her too closely, the strangers have disappeared, taking the young Lord Tir with them.

The Icefalcon, furious at himself for bringing the strangers to the Keep in the first place, follows, watching as the man he thought he knew transforms back into his true form, that of Betkis, the Court Mage.

Rudy, badly injured while attempting to get Tir back from Betkis, retuns with Gil return to the Keep. The Icefalcon continues to track Betkis, who now owns some strange magical object that gives him far more power than he ever possessed. Besides Betkis and the woman posing as his niece are several men who all look exactly alike, men whom Gil called clones before she left the Icefalcon.

Back at the Keep, the armies of the Alketch are attacking, holding the impregnable Keep under siege. Why attack the Keep of Dare when it's impossible to get by the door, and the people inside have already a store of food? Ingold is away from the Keep, and Rudy lays near death. They track Betkis and Tir as they join up with Vair na-Chandros, the husband of Yori-Ezrikos, a man who has found a machine from the Times Before to create the clones who now make up his army. He wants Tir for his memories, to find secrets now hidden under the ice in the North, secrets to help him take over the Keep of Dare and attack the kingdoms his wife rules in the Alketch.

Parallel to the story in the present, though, is the story of Icefalcon's history - why the barbarian of the Real World joined the Guards, and why he came to Renwath Vale in the first place. The story of his betrayal and exile from the Talking Stars People unfolds as he journeys through the land of his childhood, now covered by ice, and falls back into the ways of his people.

But before long, despite his continuous ridicule of the "mud-diggers," the civilized people, he begins to realize that perhaps his heart has changed, and that the revenge he seeks on the one who betrayed him is not what he wants for his life after all. Published by Del Rey Books, February, Mother of Winter sample chapter. White Raiders analysis , written by Gil Patterson. Icefalcon's Quest sample chapter. Sun Wolf and Starhawk The Ladies of Mandrigyn When Sun Wolf, a mercenary captain, turned down an elegant lady from the town of Mandrigyn and her preposterous request that he fight for her an unwinable battle, he had no idea what trouble he was getting into.

Sheera had no intention of taking no for an answer, and as an unwilling prisoner, Sun Wolf begins to train the women of Mandrigyn as a fighting force. His lieutenant, Starhawk, follows his trail to the city where all the men have been imprisoned by the last wizard to walk to the earth. Sun Wolf is foced to admit, before long, that he has violated ever rule about wizardry and love that his father handed down to him, and once reunited, both Sun Wolf and Starhawk in a theme which soon becomes familiar during their subsequent travels , are forced to leave Mandrigyn at the end of the story - and the newly-freed men to the surprises that their battle-trained wives and daughters have become.

Locus award nominee, Published by Del Rey books in The Witches of Wenshar Sun Wolf and Starhawk, after being outsted from Mandrigyn, leave in search of someone who might be able to train Sun Wolf in his new-found powers. They end up in a desert city, where Starhawk joins the guards, and Sun Wolf is hired to tutor the son of the palace in the arts of war. Sun Wolf is intrigued by the rumors surrounding the nearby deserted city of Wenshar, where an ancient order of witches once lived. When strange deaths at Court, and the strange abilities of the princess Tazey are brought to light, Sun Wolf travels to Wenshar to seek the answers.

And yes, they're pretty much outsted from the city at the end, too. Published by Del Rey books in This winter, though, there seems to be a plague of very bad luck on the whole company, and Sun Wolf suspects a small, unprepossessing man who was captured from one of the looted cities, thought to be a wizard. And when Starhawk is close to death, Sun Wolf has to decide between her and the well-being of his former troop. In case you hadn't guessed, they are forced to leave the camp at the end, too. Sun-Cross The Rainbow Abyss When Rhion's master, the wizard Jaldis, tells him of the Dark Well, a portal to other universes, and the magical cry for help he heard from it, he is inclined to not care.

The world he and Jaldis live in fears, hates, and mistrusts wizards.

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What few mages exist are splintered into several sects. But Jaldis fears that the mysterious other world, where magic is dead, may mean that magic could die in their world as well and wishes to go to their aid. Before they can mount an expedition though the Dark Well, though, they are chased out of the city, and several years pass before Jaldis can make another Well, and try to go though. Rhion emerges from the Well into a strange and alien place Published by Del Rey books, "Fifty years I am learning the wisdom of great men, the Torah and the Talmud and the names of the angels of each sphere of the world and the numbers by which the Lord rules the universe, and now at my age I find I should have studied to be Tarzan instead.

There, the Germans are trying to re-discover magic for use in the war effort. Rhion, as their prisoner, is doing his best to leave the war-torn and magicless world he has landed in - with the help of a red-and-black haired Jewish girl and her father. And if he succeeds, what will be left of the mages and magic in his own world? Hambly does a very good job with Rebbe Leibnitz see quote above. Published by Del Rey books, Locus award nominee, Benjamin January, a free man of color, has returned home after many years in Paris, fleeing a city that seems to speak his dead wife's name every time he turns around.

A musician and doctor, Benjamin is en route to a Carnival octaroon ball when a masked young woman calls for help in the street, shouting his name. After rescuing her, and progressing to the ball in time to start the first dance, he realizes the woman was an old piano student of his.

Between dances, he slips out to see her, for Madeline, a white woman, has defied custom and tradition by invading the octaroon to go into what all the names for colored people in New Orleans at this time mean would take up too much space, but it's in the introduction ball January is playing for - a ball for white men and their colored mistresses, their placees. Next door, in another, adjoining ballroom, are the white sisters, mothers, and wives of these same men, as Hambly puts it, wondering with pretend ignorance where their menfolk could have gone to January urges Madeline to leave before someone recognizes her and her reputation is ruined.

She, however, refuses to leave unless he sets up a meeting for her with the octaroon woman she has come to see - the most flamboyant of the free women of color present, Angelique, the placee of Madeline's recently deceased husband. Between the next set of dances, January does attempt to find Angelique, but she runs him off when a prospective lover enters the room. He returns to the ballroom proper and begins playing again. When Angelique disappears before the evening's planned tableaux, Benjamin watches with amusement as his sister Dominique, and her friends, search frantically for the girl - amusement that turns to horror when Angelique is found dead.

When the police come to investigate, January realizes that he is the last person to have seen the girl alive, since the young man she was with when he left the room has fled to a country estate and is hiding from questioning. The social climate is already chilly toward men of color, even free ones, and January finds himself having to go to great lengths to have to clear his name - and to find out what really did happen to Angelique during the Mardi Gras ball.

Check out the signature on the front cover of this book. Published by Bantam Books, July, A cholera epidemic has seized New Orleans, sending the upper eschelons of both colored and white society to cooler and safer locations. Benjamin remains in New Orleans to treat the sick and dying, where he becomes tangled with a runaway slave girl named Cora, who is wanted for poisoning her master, Otis Redfern, and stealing several thousand dollars. But Benjamin isn't sure she was truly the culprit. Then Cora goes missing, like several other colored people before her. In searching for Cora, Benjamin meets up with Cora's friend, Rose Vitrac, a free woman of color who runs a school for girls in New Orleans.

Rose and Benjamin work to find Cora and untangle the mystery of Otis Redfern's death and Cora's disappearance, helped along the way by the usual suspects of Hannibal and Abishag Shaw. And even when most of the clues fall into place, there are still surprises left. One of these residents was a family whose son claims a dark spirit killed them, before he committed suicide in an institution where he was locked up. Despite the best efforts from the police they couldn't find out what was going on and where the people were.

Suddenly a body falls from the top of the building and lands on top of an abandoned car smashing the roof. The car's alarm begins going off causing the noise to echo throughout the whole neighborhood. Then, something begins moving in the car. The body that fell from the roof was somehow not dead. Out of the car comes a teenage girl around 18 years of age. She has short black hair, blue eyes, and tan skin.

She is wearing a long black trench coat, dark jeans, shirt, and gloves. She looks back in the car and pulls out her hat. She cleans it from the debri and puts it back on her head.

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She then hears the door from the building opening nearby. The next thing she hears is a low death rattling sound.


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Letting out a loud groan the young girl looks over to see who it is. The source of the sound is coming from a pale skin woman with long black hair, looks dead, and is crawling towards her. The young girl pulls out a piece of gum and puts it in her mouth. She then moves her hand into the remains of the car with a small smile on her face. Now, you're trying to finish the job? The dead rattling woman approaches the girl inching closer and closer towards her. The girl waits for it until the woman is close enough.

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The woman now an inches away from the girl's feet as she looks up at her. The woman lets out a loud death rattling sound. The girl then pulls out a silver shotgun from the car and puts the barrel in the woman's mouth. She shoots at the woman killing her and sending her into the afterlife.

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The girl puts her gun away and takes out a small chain from her pocket. Aiming it at the building the chain begins to glow white. Once she was sure it didn't change any other color she puts it away and pulls out her cell phone. The job is done," says the girl through the phone.

The girl puts the phone away and begins limping down the street. That's the end and I hope everyone likes how this went. Granted it's not like the first version, but hopefully it's still good.

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Also if anyone can guess what was that woman the girl was fighting at the end will get a cookie, no milk sorry. You get your own milk. I want to thank again my friend Wolf2 for his help. I appreciate it my friend. Please leave some reviews and let me know what you guys thought of the chapter. Please don't leave any flame reviews. If you didn't like it then don't leave a review, bye. Just In All Stories: Story Story Writer Forum Community. A new version of my previous story with some differences. Raven's destiny is coming and she is unsure if she can fight it.

Can her friends save her from helping end the world? Or will they gain a new ally who will help them defeat this new evil and steal Raven's heart? Will it be enough to save Raven? Only one way to find out. Prologue Jump City It's nighttime in the city and all through the night not a person in sight for many of them have gone off to bed or are working late. No one-" he is then interrupted when a dark swirl appear behind him. The butt-kicking's over and it's almost midnight! Meanwhile In downtown Chicago, it is nighttime.

She cracks her back to put it in place and groans loudly.