Knight of the Demon Queen (Winterlands, Book 3)

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Knight of the Demon Queen is the third book in Barbara Hamblys fantasy tour de force, The Winterlands an epic, classic quartet full of high stakes, magic and dragons.
Once the most powerful mage in the land, defeater of dragons, Jenny Waynest is now a broken woman.

She was possessed and corrupted by a demon, losing all she held dear including her loves trust. Rebuilding her life seems impossible.

Her husband, Lord John, now bears his own torment, far away: he tricked the beautiful and cruel Aohila a rival hells demon queen, in order to free his wife from possession and now he is plagued by her memories.

Condemned to death for making deals with demons, John cannot forgive himself for opening the door to a far greater evil an evil that now haunts his dreams. And not only his dreams

For the vengeful Aohila needs mortal aid in realms beyond her power, and who better to provide it than John Blackmailed into cooperating, John must fight his way through unimaginable horrors in a quest that may doom the world he has left behind

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Praise for Dragonsbane:

This is literary alchemy of the highest order, and it confirms Hamblys place as one of the best new fantasists
Locus

An enviable and intricate talent
Janny Wurts

Author Bio

Barbara Hambly was born in San Diego. Her interest in fantasy began with reading The Wizard of Oz at an early agae and has continued ever since. She attended the University of California, Riverside, specializing in medieval history and then spent a year at the University at Bordeaux in Southern France as a teaching and research assistant. She now lives in Los Angeles.