Bêlit: Bone Whispers

Bêlit: Bone Whispers

The Heroic Legends Series

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Capturing the electric short fiction energy that led Robert E. Howard to be one of the top fantasy writers of the century, with exclusive serialized eBook stories starring Conan, Solomon Kane, and more by many of today’s top writers in fantasy and sword-and-sorcery.

“Those who possess the codex come to a bad end.”

The Shemite shaman N’yaga is in his village when he is visited by the young Bêlit, there in pursuit of the Codex Osyrania. The Codex is a magical book that contains the location of all the secrets ever buried, each spot marked by a golden cross. Some crosses lead to treasure, some spell doom. The book was given to N’yaga by Bêlit’s father, who asked that he safeguard it.

N’yaga reveals that a captain he served lost his ship gambling and took the Codex to buy it back. He throws the bones to tell her future, and sees her fate entwined with a black-maned lion. Yet he also sees in the bones that he is destined to go with Bêlit to the island of Knefetalla to retrieve the Codex. Together they set out in search of the legendary book.
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Praise for Bêlit: Bone Whispers

Praise for Conan and Robert E. Howard:
“Howard’s writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks.”—Stephen King


“In Howard's grim and all too realistic view, the barbarians are always at the gate, and once a culture allows itself to grow soft, decadent or simply neglectful, it will be swept away by the primitive and ruthless.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post


“I read books, and I dreamed of Mars, and the planets in those books, and of the Hyborian Age of Robert E. Howard’s Conan books…”—George R. R. Martin, author of A Game of Thrones


“I adore these books. Howard had a gritty, vibrant style—broadsword writing that cut its way to the heart, with heroes who are truly larger than life.”—David Gemmell, author of Legend


“Those of us who believed in Conan at the right moment in our lives never stop believing. We might not grow up to become him, but we never grow out of him, either.”—Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians


“Howard was a true storyteller—one of the first, and certainly among the best, you’ll find in heroic fantasy.”—Charles de Lint, author of The Wild Wood and The Onion Girl
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The Heroic Legends Series

El Borak: The Siege of Lamakan
Conan: The Halls of Immortal Darkness
Bêlit: Bone Whispers
Solomon Kane: The Banquet of Souls
Conan: Terror from the Abyss
Conan: Lethal Consignment
Bran Mak Morn: Red Waves of Slaughter
Bêlit: Shipwrecked
Conan: The Shadow of Vengeance
Conan: The Child
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Michael A. Stackpole
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