The Lion Hunters Series by Elizabeth Wein

3.93 · 55 ratings
  • The Winter Prince (The Lion Hunters #1)
    #1

    The Winter Prince (The Lion Hunters #1)

    Elizabeth Wein

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings · published 1993

    The story of Medraut - strong, skilled, daring, and never to be king...Medraut is the eldest son of Artos, high king of Britain; and, but for an accident of birth, would-be heir to the throne. Instead, his younger half-brother, Lleu, is chosen to be prince of Britain. Lleu is fragile, often ill, unskilled in weaponry and statesmanship, and childishly afraid of the dark. Even Lleu's twin sister, Goewin, seems more suited to rule the kingdom... more

  • A Coalition of Lions (The Lion Hunters #2)
    #2

    A Coalition of Lions (The Lion Hunters #2)

    Elizabeth Wein

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings · published 2003

    After the death of virtually all of her family in the battle of Camlan, Goewin, Princess of Britain, daughter of the High King Artos, makes a desperate journey to African Aksum, to meet with Constantine, the British ambassador and her fiance. But Aksum is undergoing political turmoil, and Goewin's relationship with its ambassador to Britain makes her position more than precarious... more

  • The Sunbird (The Lion Hunters #3)
    #3

    The Sunbird (The Lion Hunters #3)

    Elizabeth Wein

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings · published 2004

    Eleven-year-old Telemakos is the grandson of two royal men: one African, from the kingdom of Aksum; the other Artos, the fallen High King of Britain. He is also a remarkable listener and tracker. Now his country needs his skill. Even though there is a quarantine, plague is spreading through Aksum, leaving disease and death in its wake. Telemakos is recruited as the emperor’s spy... more

  • The Lion Hunter (The Lion Hunters #4)
    #4

    The Lion Hunter (The Lion Hunters #4)

    Elizabeth Wein

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2007

    It is the sixth century in Aksum, Africa. Young Telemakos, King Arthur's half-Ethiopian grandson, is still recovering from his ordeal as a government spy in the far desert, trying to learn who was breaking the Emperor?s plague quarantine. Before he is fully himself again, tragedy and menace strike, and he finds himself sent, with his baby sister, Athena, to live with Abreha, the ruler of Himyar, a longtime enemy of the Aksumites, now perhaps a friend... more

  • The Empty Kingdom (The Lion Hunters #5)
    #5

    The Empty Kingdom (The Lion Hunters #5)

    Elizabeth Wein

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2008

    In The Lion Hunter, Telemakos, the half-British, half-Aksumite grandson of King Arthur, was sent for his safety to stay with one of Aksum's former enemies. When Abreha, ruler of Himyar, allegedly the boy's protector, catches him in the midst of what appears to be treachery, he sentences him to a fate seemingly worse than death... more

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