Tigera now stood very still.She turned and looked deep into her mother's eyes."We have a very simple decision to make" said Tigera"Run.""Or stay and die" she stated as a factVerified Purchase"Great first book from The Clan series. Left me wanting more! Really excited for the next book. This is a must read!"⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Heroes and Heroines will rise in the most adverse of timesTheir lands, the Nine Boroughs, are abundant in food and shelter. They prosper, expand and it could be said, have become complacent in their existence.However, far to their Western Border, other eyes look on with want and jealousy on this bountiful land.Now a great Lord has assembled the Hoard, West of the River border, and they plan an invasion the Clan will not see coming until it is too late. The invasion of the Clan's territory is underway and due to the Clan's seasons of complacency, they find themselves unprepared for what is coming.A small band of Clan members make a stand at the Clan's ancestral home, but they are outnumbered by at least six to one. But just when all seems lost, one family will hold the key to the Clan's survival. Can a Mother and her four young children rise to the challenge? The fate of the Clan and the Boroughs will rest in them overcoming adversity, personal tragedy and learning to wield the Power and Titles suddenly thrust upon them.The Gathering will take you to a world that is all around you, just seen through different eyes. A new genre in Fantasy is emerging which will challenge the way you see the world and the way you take every day things for granted.

Among the most socially and personally vocal archaeological remains on the North American continent are the massive and often complexly designed earthen architecture of Hopewellian peoples of two thousand years ago, their elaborately embellished works of art made of glistening metals and stones from faraway places, and their highly formalized mortuaries. In this book, twenty-one researchers in interwoven efforts immerse themselves and the reader in this vibrant archaeological record in order to richly reconstruct the societies, rituals, and ritual interactions of Hopewellian peoples. By finding the faces, actions, and motivations of Hopewellian peoples as individuals who constructed knowable social roles, the authors explore, in a personalized and locally contextualized manner, the details of Hopewellian life: leadership, its sacred and secular power bases, recruitment, and formalization over time; systems of social ranking and prestige; animal-totemic clan organization, kinship structures, and sodalities; gender roles, prestige, work load, and health; community organization in its tri-scalar residential, symbolic, and demographic forms; intercommunity alliances and changes in their strategies and expanses over time; and interregional travels for power questing, pilgrimage, healing, tutelage, and acquiring ritual knowledge. This book is useful to scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in the workings and development of social complexity at local and interregional scales, recent theoretical developments in the anthropology of the topics listed above, the prehistory of eastern North America, its history of intellectual development, and Native American ritual, symbolism, and belief.

Excerpt from The Gathering of the Clans British Empire. They have been mistaken. After this war the relations between the great Dominions and the Mother Country can never be the same again. The pressure of. Our enemies is welding us together, and the British Empire is becoming in reality, as well as in name, a united nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

As with all great stories, the first book of this glorious trilogy ended with many unanswered questions. Will the former Indian Scout Joshua Hotah find his parents? Painfully naïve, does the youthful Priscilla Kimball appreciate that she could succumb to unsolicited debauchery at any time? What are the true intentions of the enigmatic sociopath Csongor Toth? Will the strange partners of business Tseng Longwei and Roshan Kuznetsov ever find their way to Silver City? Now a Lutheran Pastor, Manfred Herrmann has survived the Civil War—but can he survive his own dark nature? And consider the calamitous adventures of Gordania Sinclair, the singular heroine of this tale. Her father never imagined that he was sending his beloved daughter into a world of murder, deception, and peril when he gave her a final hug in Scotland. These and many other questions will be answered. But you are hereby forewarned: this second book will end with an act of unspeakable evil that will test even the most courageous heart.

Given by Eugene Edge III.