The Traitor Queen Vk

[Chadwick Bosse]

Aqueen now in exile as a traitor, Lara has watched Ithicana be conquered by her own father, helpless to do anything to stop the destruction. But when she learns her husband, Aren, has been captured in battle, Lara knows there is only one reason her father is keeping him alive: as bait for his traitorous daughter.

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Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life-working hard all day and partying all night - until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation. She'll do whatever it takes to avenge their deaths. Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. His brutal skills and incredible strength have been set to one purpose - to assassinate his boss' enemies, no questions asked.

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Ripped from a forgotten homeland as a child, Tisaanah learned how to survive with nothing but a sharp wit and a touch of magic. But the night she tries to buy her freedom, she barely escapes with her life. Desperate to save the best friend she left behind, Tisaanah journeys to the Orders, the most powerful organizations of magic Wielders in the world. But to join their ranks, she must complete an apprenticeship with Maxantarius Farlione, a handsome and reclusive fire wielder who despises the Orders.

The elves come for two things: war and wives. In both cases, they come for death. Three-thousand years ago, humans were hunted by powerful races with wild magic until the treaty was formed. Now, for centuries, the elves have taken a young woman from Luella's village to be their Human Queen. To be chosen is seen as a mark of death by the townsfolk. A mark nineteen-year-old Luella is grateful to have escaped as a girl. Instead, she's dedicated her life to studying herbology and becoming the town's only healer. That is, until the Elf King unexpectedly arrives... for her.

I could save him, but he would ruin me. The beast. The creature that stalks the forbidden wood. The dragon prince. He has suffered a fate worse than death. We all have. A curse put upon us by the mad king. We are a kingdom locked in time. Shifters unable to feel our animals. Stuck here by a deal between the late king and a demon who seeks our destruction. The only one keeping this kingdom alive is Nyfain, the golden prince to a stolen throne. The last dragon shifter.

Until an oracle predicted my regal future, I'd never imagined myself rising above the curve of my round ears. After all, I was the magicless halfling loved by beasts but loathed by every pure-blooded faerie at court. Well...by all but one.

After her family is killed by corrupt warlord Aric Athair and his bloodthirsty army of Bullets, Caledonia Styx is left to chart her own course on the dangerous and deadly seas. She captains her ship, the Mors Navis, with a crew of girls and women just like her, who have lost their families and homes because of Aric and his men. The crew has one mission: stay alive, and take down Aric's armed and armored fleet.

Lara has only one thought when her husband is taken prisoner: I will do whatever it takes to set you free. A queen now in exile as a traitor, Lara has watched Ithicana be conquered by her own father, ...

Essays in Medieval Studies 19 (2002) 61-69 // -->

[Access article in PDF] Coward, Traitor, Landless Trojan:

neas and the Politics of Sodomy Susanne Hafner

The University of Texas at Austin Coming to terms with sodomy in Heinrich von Veldeke's Eneasroman means defining the ulterior motives of Lavinia's mother. 1 It is the queen who brings up this unsavoury accusation, and when she does so, it is politically motivated. She tries to persuade first her husband and then her daughter that neas is unqualified to become Lavinia's husband and thus successor to the old king, a new king of reliable longevity, and the father of a dynasty of future kings.

This marks a significant change from the source. In Virgil's neid, Amata's arguments are part of an entire sequence of tirades directed against neas, and they are proportionally small and insignificant in comparison to those of Iarbas, Turnus, or Numanus, the male mouthpieces of the opposing camps. 2 The Roman d'Eneas, however, and Veldeke in its wake, assigns considerably more weight to the Amata figure. 3 Although the medieval authors preserved the depicton of the mother's fury which can be found in Virgil, they did not preserve the divine - pagan - background story. Eliminating both Juno as the cause of the mother's fury and Allecto as its means exposes the queen's behavior as extreme and entirely unmotivated. The arguments have remained largely identical, but the deletion of the pagan realm of divine interference demonizes the mother to a much larger extent. This is even more so as the speeches of Iarbas, Turnus, and Numanus have practically disappeared from the text, and thus the queen's efforts to discredit the protagonist stand alone. Placing Veldeke's romance into the larger context of Virgilian reception history, a comparison to the neid's medieval Latin reworkings as well as its translation into Anglo-Norman will reveal categorical differences between the Old French text and its Middle High German translation, including changes with regard to argument, structure, and motivation. What Lavinia's mother tells her daughter, how she says it, and to what purpose she does so shed light on [End Page 61] Heinrich von Veldeke's unique characterization of a hero whom history has squarely positioned between pietas, exemplary loyalty, and zagnisse, the cowardice of a man who betrays his family and his country in moments of crisis.

Against Veldeke's drastic changes, the two arguments he does adopt from the Anglo-Norman text gain an entirely different character. One of them is the protagonist's abandonment of Dido. This would constitute a particularly unsuitable illustration of neas's sodomitical desire, if one were to read it as gay or the medieval equivalent thereof. Secondly, the queen describes the threat that an attitude like his would pose to the survival of all mankind. By linking these originally separate examples, Heinrich transforms Dido into the prototypical abandoned woman and barren mother. When neas deserts her without providing her with a "kindeln" (2192), Dido, her dynasty, and ultimately Carthage herself are destined for extinction. The queen's direct comparison between Dido and Lavinia reveals her true concern: Accusing neas of sodomy means branding him as unwilling to procreate and hence unfit...

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