Enter the world of warring kingdoms, magic and marvels, political intrigues - enter the enthralling world of The Elenium. In this second volume, Ehlana, young Queen of Elenia, clings to life by a thread, preserved within a diamond-like block of crystal conjured by the sorceress Sephrenia. But there is a price to pay - twelve Pandion knights must sacrifice their lives to keep her alive for just one year.

Aided by the goddess Aphrael, the Pandion Knight Sparhawk and his band of companions have recovered the magical jewel Bhelliom - the Sapphire Rose - from the cave of the troll-dwarf Ghwerig. Now they have the power to wake and cure Ehlana, the young Queen of Elenia.

Regal's treasonous attempt to usurp the Six Duchies throne from his half brother Verity has been foiled. Now as Fitz recovers slowly from the foul poison administered to him, the King's Fool Prophesies: 'We are here Fitz, you and I, to change the future, and the world.'

Together, the four Keys of Power give the ruler of Grenda Lear absolute authority. But Queen Usharna divides the keys amongst her four children....and tensions within the royal family and within Usharna's kingdom are set to explode into violence and betrayal

Eagerly awaited for a decade, here at last is the full epic story of Belgarath, the great sorcerer learned in the Will and the Word on whom the fate of the world depends. Only Belgarath can tell of those near forgotten times when Gods still walked the land: he is the Ancient One, the Old Wolf, his God Aldur's first and most-favoured disciple.

In this gripping finale to the Farseer trilogy, Fitz must finally make sense of the Fool's cryptic prophecies.

As Warden of the North, Lord Eddard Stark counts it a curse when King Robert bestows on him the office of Hand. His honour weighs him down at court where a true man does what he will, not what he must....and a dead enemy is a thing of beauty. The old gods have no power in the south, Stark's family is split, and there is treachery at court. Worse, a vengeance-mad boy has grown to maturity in exile in the Free Cities beyond the sea. Heir of the mad Dragon King, deposed by Robert, he claims the Iron throne.