But it seems that her mother has other plans for her-plans that include a suitor who goes against everything the Queendom stands for. Raia aspires to be like Hanalea, the legendary warrior queen who killed the Demon King and saved the world. She's just returned to court after three years of riding and hunting with her father's family. Meanwhile, Princess Raisa ana'Marianna has her own battle to fight. With a magical piece so powerful at stake, Han knows that the Bayars will stop at nothing to get it back. The amulet once belonged to the Demon King, who nearly destroyed the world a millennium ago. Han takes an amulet away from Micah Bayar, son of the High Wizard, to ensure the boy won't use it against him. One day Han Alister catches three young wizard setting fire to the sacred mountain of Hanalea. New York Times bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima presents the first installment in a thrilling new fantasy series, in which the lives of Han Alister and the brave Princess Raisa collide in a magical and dangerous adventure. Cornered by mortal and unearthly enemies, they must master all their own powers to survive-and to understand if the intensely passionate feelings that bind them are LustвЂ™s demon magic or true desire. As supernatural war erupts, Moira and smoldering, seductive Rafe Cooper are caught in the crossfire. But when MoiraвЂ™s unwanted psychic powers intensify, she fears her connection to the underworld is putting everyone she cares about in grave danger. She suspects another coven is at work, aided indirectly by her diabolical mother, the powerful witch Fiona. Racing to L.A., Moira discovers that the City of Angels is fast becoming the demon LustвЂ™s decadent playground. The fiendish entity was finally trapped, but when more bodies bearing satanic marks surface in Los Angeles, demon hunter Moira OвЂ™Donnell fears the terror has only just begun. Santa Louisa is still reeling from the lethal rampage of the demon Envy, one of the Seven Deadly Sins released from Hell by black magic. Indeed, what could be more captivating for a man than to test his mastery by evoking the beauty of the ugly and the diabolic? Auguste RodinвЂ™s The Gates of Hell, the monumental, tormented work of a lifetime, perfectly illustrates this passion for evil, but also reveals the reason for this fascination. In the 19th century, romanticism, attracted by the mysterious and expressive potential of the theme, continued to glorify the malevolent. In the same way, literature dealing with the Devil has long offered inspiration to artists wishing to exorcise evil through images, especially the works of Dante and Goethe. For other artists, such as Hieronymus Bosch, they provided a means of denouncing the moral decrepitude of oneвЂ™s contemporaries. Often commissioned by religious leaders as images of fear or veneration, depending on the society, representations of the underworld served to instruct believers and lead them along the path of righteousness. the Devil has many names and faces, all of which have always served artists as a source of inspiration. вЂњThe Devil holds the strings which move us!вЂќ (Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, 1857.) Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer.

Demons of the seven deadly sins