{"product_id":"elvenbane-9781647101916","title":"Elvenbane","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Grand Masters Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton -- the landmark dragon-and-rebellion saga, revised, illustrated, and complete at last.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe elves rule a world where humans are property. The one thing they fear is a child who is not fully human.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a thousand years the immortal elven lords have bred, collared, drugged, and discarded their human slaves at a whim. They fear revolt -- but they fear something else far more: a halfblood child born with gifts no slave should possess. The elves have a name for such children. Wizards. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey hunt them, execute them, erase them, because prophecy whispers that one of them will rise as the Elvenbane.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Serina Daeth is cast into the desert for carrying her master's child, she dies giving birth beneath a merciless sun. Her daughter should have died with her. Instead the infant is found by Alara, a dragon shaman who saves the strange little creature on impulse and carries her home to the hidden lairs of the Kin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaised among dragons, named Shana, taught to believe she is one of them, the child grows into a girl with impossible gifts, dangerous questions, and a destiny no one fully understands. To the elves she is an abomination. To the dragons she may be a tool, a threat, or the key to remaking the world. And as Shana uncovers the truth of her birth, she is drawn toward a legacy of magic, vengeance, and freedom that could shatter elven rule forever.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore a world can be freed, one girl must learn what she truly is -- and why so many would kill to keep her from becoming it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn epic of dragon-raised wizards, immortal tyrants, and a long-prophesied rebellion, in the tradition of Anne McCaffrey's \u003ci\u003ePern\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eElvenbane\u003c\/i\u003e opens the complete four-book \u003ci\u003eHalfblood Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e: newly revised and illustrated, and finished at last with the long-awaited finale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e CAEZIK SF \u0026amp; Fantasy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781647101916\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.10d","brand":"Mercedes Lackey,Andre Norton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52873244147893,"sku":"9781647101916","price":19.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/elvenbane-9781647101916","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}