Laraine Anne Barker: 12 books

Rahti (14) has dreamt all his life of his mother abandoning him at birth. But this night his dream tells him exactly where (at the gates of Olwen House) and he goes off to find out why the owners didn’t adopt him, thus setting in motion a very complex spell woven by her. But she didn’t bargain...

Iggie, illegitimate son of Lazaronia's two vilest sorcerers, now both dead, believes his father Ignarius, twin to the late King Lazarone III, should have been king. Iggie, who never knew his father, goes in search of his stepfather, an outcast god (Lazaronia's equivalent of Satan) convinced...

The story of how the young future King Lazarone III and his distant cousin Esmeralda find and hatch what appear to be the last eggs from the last two dragons of Lazaronia. A short-story prequel to the Mark Willoughby series.

When Mark Willoughby is confronted by a woman who looks like both a witch and a ghost, his life abruptly changes. For it appears that he is “The One Marked by Willow” destined to save a strange land called Lazaronia, whose inhabitants have been cursed with infertility. Only the King and Queen...

… He looked down—straight into a pair of fiery yellow-green eyes. … Mark caught a glimpse of a cavernous mouth full of sharp yellow teeth. The creature seemed to have no substance, but changed shape more rapidly than clouds in a high, blustery wind. Its eyes winked on and off. … Each time...

“Where did she take you?” a voice hissed in his ears. “Tell me and I’ll let you go.”“Where did who take me?” Mark gasped. …“… Where did that old hag Lazaria take you in your dreams?”“Nowhere: she just showed me how you—how you sent part of yourself out on the wind.”“And...

Within moments Esmé felt the full force of a refusal that could break even the strongest mind—a refusal that turned her power against her with a towering, almost unbelievable rage. The twisting rainbows from her fingertips bent like hairpins, aiming their might at her head. For long moments Esmé...

In the centre of the bier lay Ignarius in a simple white robe. … A silver coronet was his only adornment. No king could have looked more regal or dignified. … It was hard to believe so much evil existed within him.“Touch him!” Mirabell hissed into Esmé’s ear. … The contact sent shudders...

After her mate is killed by an evil that is relentlessly driving unicorns to extinction, Argent takes her foal Silvranja to a huge cavern full of their ancestors’ bones. There Silvranja is cared for by the Piksenvolk, a race of small people who live in Piksenville under Geheimberg (the Secret Mountain)...

“Who are you?” she whispered as she felt the full force of his magnetic power.“Come home, dear Esmé, and forget all this nonsense. The Earthling Mark is unworthy of you. He betrays you at every opportunity. You’ve seen how he flirts with all the girls in sight.”Esmé’s eyes filled with...

… the black shape loomed above him … he felt its claws clamp around his middle … Tensely he waited for those sharp talons to pierce his flesh. … Feathers fluttered only centimetres from his face. … the creature’s carrion stench hit his nostrils. …… The creatures waited—and waited...

Humans have nearly driven the unicorns of Lazaronia to extinction, mainly for the beauty and value of their silver ivory horns. But a power with an even more evil purpose is now determined to wipe them out and succeeds in killing Albishadewe’s parents, leaving him wondering if he is the last of...