Cloak Of Ashes

My name is Nadia, and I’m a shadow agent of the High Queen of the Elves. I don’t have many friends, but I look after the ones I do have…and I pay my debts. So when Hakon Valborg’s teenaged granddaughter Lydia is arrested for the murder of her computer science teacher, I agree to help. But there’s more going on here than just murder. Because an ancient enemy of both humans and Elves just might have taken up residence in Lydia’s high school…

My name is Nadia, and I'm a shadow agent of the High Queen of the Elves.I don't have many friends, but I look after the ones I do have...and I pay my debts.So when Hakon Valborg's teenaged granddaughter Lydia is arrested for the murder of her computer science teacher, I agree to help.But there's more going on here than just murder.Because an ancient enemy of both humans and Elves just might have taken up residence in Lydia's high school...

Honor masks the treachery of Elven nobles. My name is Tythrilandria, and I'm a shadow agent of the High Queen of the Elves, helping her to keep the fragile peace between the humans, the Elven nobles, and the Elven commoners. But when the leader of an Elven free city wishes to see how humans live, the folly of the nobles might unleash endless war...

The realm of Andomhaim reels beneath the invasion of Warlord Agravhask, and Ridmark stands in his path. Ridmark knows that Agravhask is only the servant of the mighty Warden of Urd Morlemoch, and the realm must be ready to face its true foe. But the Warden knows that Ridmark can stop him, and has dispatched the Heralds of Ruin to slay the Shield Knight. Third of Nightmane Forest has seen the trap, and rushes to save her friend. If she fails, the Warden and his dark Heralds will triumph, and darkness will swallow the world...

Mourning Beowulf's death and sensing an urgent summons from her long absent mother, Freawaru leaves Geatland to cross the whale road. She leaves having blood on her hands, for she has killed a man. Her journey takes her first to Norway, land of the Brondings, where a strange young girl unexpectedly enters her life. She next returns to Denmark, to the court of her old nemesis, Hrothulf, now the respected King Hrolf Kraki. There she seeks clues to her mother's whereabouts, clues from the mounds of the dead and from her old rune-master, Unferth. Hrolf's court is itself in peril from the king's half-sister, the witch-queen Skuld. When Freawaru attempts to assist Hrolf, sobering consequences result. Gathering her people and her courage, Freawaru sails for Angle-land, where she confronts the threat of a new religion. Her gifts as a seeress and healer are repeatedly tested as she struggles to create a home for herself and her followers in East Anglia. Her acts and decisions there, as she strives to stay true to the goddess, will affect the ruling house and the fate of its king, the redoubtable Rædwald. How will she live up to the demands placed upon her?

My name is Nadia, and I’m an errand girl. Except my boss is the High Queen of the Elves. And my errands for her involve spying on people. Or stealing things. Or hunting down monsters. Or, on occasion, killing people. But this time she wants me to solve a murder. And unless I find the killer, I’m going to be his next target…because dragons never forgive a murder.

Combined for the first time in one volume are the first three books of the internationally bestselling urban fantasy epic - CLOAK OF DRAGONS, CLOAK OF WOLVES, and CLOAK OF ASHES! My name is Nadia, and I’m an errand girl. Except my boss is the High Queen of the Elves. And my errands for her involve spying on people. Or stealing things. Or hunting down monsters. Or, on occasion, killing people. But this time she wants me to solve a murder. And unless I find the killer, I’m going to be his next target…because dragons never forgive a murder.

When an invitation to The Ball arrives at the Ash girl's house, from Prince Amir, she can't bring herself to believe that she, like her sisters, can go. With her mother dead and her father away, she must learn to fight the monsters that have slithered and insinuated their way into her heart and mind. In this wondrous drama Timberlake Wertenbaker explores the beauty and terror inherent in growing up.The Ash Girl premiered at Birmingham Rep in 2001.