"Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life.
Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood.
The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. She knows—everyone knows—that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. And there is no way to save her.
But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose."
"A catastrophic event renders the
earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable,
nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to
ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer
space.
But the complexities and
unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and
dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of
survivors remains . . . Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven
distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious
journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by
cataclysm and time: Earth."
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