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After an eight-hundred-year slumber, the volcanoes in Iceland’s most populated region are showing signs of life. Earthquakes dominate the headlines. Echoes of the devastating eruptions in the past stir unease in the people. Volcanologist Anna Arnardóttir has spent her entire life studying the volcanic powers under the earth’s crust, but even she cannot fathom the catastrophe at hand.

After her mother’s passing, Aldona finds a tin filled with old letters from a prisoner at Ravensbrück, a women’s concentration camp in northern Germany. Amid the descriptions of daily deprivations and humiliations at the camp, she uncovers the heart-wrenching story of a small circle of women who risked their lives to hide a baby girl from the guards. Aldona is rocked to the core by this record of courage and sisterhood during one of the grimmest chapters of human history. 

A woman delves into science and superstition, fear and persecution, and the hope and courage of belief in an award-winning and internationally bestselling novel by Kateřina Tučková. 

How quickly the ground shifts beneath our feet. We make choices—in the face of love, or violence, or necessity—and the effects ripple outward. In these moving short stories, acclaimed authors examine the foundations of the past, uncovering the irreversible decisions and life-changing encounters that mark the turning point between before and after. 

Agatha, Jaime and Sigrid must unite the people of Scotia and beyond as war comes to the Isle of Skye. But will betrayal and secrecy be their undoing? With the deadly phantom sgàilean defeated, Jaime and Agatha prepare to help their clan reclaim their compound from the treacherous Raasay people. But Sigrid, sent at the behest of Queen Beatrice, arrives with a warning: the kings of Norveg and Ingland have joined forces and plan to march north to annihilate the people of Scotia. The clan quickly turns to the Badhbh and his powerful blood magic.

In the early 1980s a bunch of young suburban dropouts escaped the grim atmosphere of the decaying industrialised world to travel the globe. They had no real aims but, among the backpacking, pristine beaches, and psychedelic parties, they accidentally encountered a legend that would change their lives forever. Entitled "The Bock Saga", it is the greatest story the world has ever known; nothing less than the narrative of mankind itself. The Saga, related by Finnish mystic Ior Bock, told of a mighty prehistoric civilisation and unimaginable treasures.

When Liv, Ellen and Håkon, along with their partners and children, arrive in Rome to celebrate their father’s 70th birthday, a quiet earthquake occurs: their parents have decided to divorce. Shocked and disbelieving, the siblings try to come to terms with their parents’ decision as it echoes through the homes they have built for themselves and forces them to reconstruct the shared narrative of their childhood and family history.

Agatha and Jaime have rescued their clan and returned home to Skye as heroes. But when Agatha uncovers a threat to their people, she unwittingly releases a terrible power that could kill every living thing on the island. Jaime must race to Scotia to hunt an ancient blood magic, which may be their only chance of survival. Meanwhile, Sigrid, a Norvegian girl with an unusual gift, journeys to the court of Ingland where a dangerous alliance is forming - one that will soon turn its vengeful eyes to Skye. 

Belinda was the black sheep of the family, a naive and clumsy girl who had always stood in the shadow of her beautiful and talented older sister, Signe. But the feelings that burned within Belinda were as hot as fire. When she first met the loner, Viljar of the the Ice People, she grew frightened. For people considered Viljar to be slightly mad, and his gaze was as cold as ice.

As a child, Eskil Lind had heard about the house in Eldafjord and the incredible treasure that was said to be hidden there. He had dreamed of that treasure ever since, and when he grew up he journeyed to find it. When he came to Eldafjord, he met greed, evil and a very unhappy woman with a critically ill son. He also heard that everyone who had searched for the treasure had suffered a sudden and cruel death.

Marco was one of the five members of the Ice People who had been specially chosen for the struggle against Tengel the Evil. Marco was the enigmatic helper, who was so strong that the others didn't know his true capacity. Now he had been given an almost impossible task, which was to destroy the cruel Lynx, Tengel's closest associate. And he had to do so without using his strongest weapon.

.The battle against Tengel the Evil had evolved into a life-and-death race, in which everything depended on being the first to reach the Valley of the Ice People. The Ice People had able helpers, but Tengel’s forces were incredibly powerful and, not least, merciless. In the midst of the struggle, the ill-starred Tova experienced the first and perhaps only romance of her life with the mortally ill Irishman Ian Morahan …

It was a black day in the history of the Ice People. Tengel the Evil and his right-hand man, the gruesome Lynx, had gathered all their forces against the Ice People and their helpers. And Tengel’s evil minions were many: mercenaries, war criminals, seductive witches and armoured horsemen whom it seemed impossible to defeat.

From an early age, Tula Backe realized that she was different from everyone else: she was one of the Ice People’s stricken. She did not use her extraordinary gifts solely for good purposes, and her secret was revealed because an evil power, much stronger than her, had devilish plans for her. It was Tengel the Evil who had chosen Tula to be the one to wake him from his long slumber.

The Ice People’s long and perilous battle against Tengel the Evil was over. Tan-ghil, the scourge and terror of the world, was gone forever. Despite that, there was no knowing what would happen in the future. Many questions remained to be answered, and the Ice People had exciting years ahead.

Tengel the Evil was ready to conquer the world. Slowly but surely, he was closing in on the black water, which would give him unlimited power. The chosen members of the Ice People, headed by Nataniel, had been sent to stop Tengel the Evil. But now Nataniel was stuck in the Great Abyss – a place from which nobody had ever managed to escape.

"The Legend of the Ice People" series has already captivated over 45 million readers across the world. The story of the Ice People is a moving legend of love and supernatural powers. Anna Maria Olsdatter arrived in the small mining town of Ytterheden in Sweden to teach the miners' children there. But not everyone was entirely enthusiastic about her presence, and at one point someone even tried to kill her. Anna Maria wrote to her relative, Heike Lind, to ask for his help. And he arrived only just in time because now even more people were in danger.

His name was Tamlin, and Tengel the Evil had sent him to spy on the Ice People. He would visit them in their nightmares, tricking their plans for the future out of them. But Tamlin hadn’t reckoned with young Vanja, who had very special talents even compared with those of the Ice People. Whereas Tamlin was invisible to everybody else, Vanja could see him – and fall in love with him.

Sweden, 1931. Matilda Wallin has a future in Stockholm: business college, then establishing a company with the young man she plans to marry. It’s all upended by her mother’s death—and a stranger who has been appointed her guardian. Matilda has no idea who Countess Agneta Lejongård is or why this aristocrat has taken an interest in her. Agneta summons Matilda to live with her and her family on their magnificent country estate but remains mysterious about her connection to Matilda.

"The Legend of the Ice People" series has already captivated over 45 million readers across the world. The story of the Ice People is a moving legend of love and supernatural powers. Vinga Tark and Heike Lind, both members of the Ice People, started their fight to regain the family's property. But the ruthless Judge Snivel was still firmly in possession of Graastensholm, which was Heike's lawful inheritance. Heike was forced to make use of his "evil" inheritance and invoke supernatural powers in order to break the judge's hold, and he would need the help of a virgin to do so.