Dashing soldier of fortune Major Valentine Strange, late of the Emperor of Alba’s 21st Regiment of Benhali Lancers, is hired by Brahman Ehimay Warrick to find a legendary diadem reputedly hidden in a lost monastery somewhere deep in the distant, snowy mountains of Hidush. To ensure Strange’s success in this quest vital to the future of the politically unstable Hidush, the powerful Holy Orders designate Master Aleister Grimshaw, a powerful young witch with his own history of instability—political and other—to accompany the dashing major. But long before Strange and the unwilling Grimshaw reach the tea bushes of the foothills and the lost city of Nagara, they realize there are forces both natural and unnatural at work to stop them from ever achieving their objective. Their only chance for success relies on each other and their tentative friendship—as does their only hope for survival.
Strange Fortune
This debut volume of rare sympathy and imagination leaps easily from myths to monsters, ghosts to zombies, fairy tales to the Apocalypse that, for this poet and so many today, is "just/the fact of life.
This collection will remindyou not to step on the cracks as you walk downthe street, to think twice before throwing yourpennies into the wishing well, to be carefulbefore you cross the living - or the dead, and ofcourse to remember that you ...
From Farm to Fortune; or, Nat Nason's Strange Experience
Strange Good Fortune: Essays on Contemporary Poetry (p)
Besides innovative shamans, another strange attractor in Buryat religion is the notion of fortune (khiimor'), which Buryats say rises (deerdene) or falls (dordone) in response to either a person's own actions or some external influences ...
Was beautiful, headstrong Angelica Carroll another supposed longlostheiress claiming her right to the Fortune family riches?