BOOK TWO IN THE MAGICAL DEVERRY CYCLE Prepare to be spellbound by this classic fantasy series: a sparkling tale of adventure and timeless love, perilous battle and pure magic. `I was hooked and my enthusiasm for this series carried me through to the very last and then moved me to tears’Fantasy Book Review

Leaving snowy Ohio for California, Katharine Kerr studied at Stanford University for a spell before dropping out to join some of the many social movements sweeping San Francisco in the 60s. She first became involved in the field of fantasy through role-playing games, writing articles for gaming magazines and authoring early quests for Dungeons and Dragons – all of which soon led her to fantasy writing, with her first Deverry novel,Daggerspell, appearing in 1986. Since then, her Deverry series has hitTheTimesand the Australian bestseller lists, garnering fans from around the world.

‘A criminally under-rated and overlooked epic fantasy sequence [with] a keen sense of history, well drawn characters, and a complex plot.’Kate Elliott, bestselling author

‘An unusually scholarly writer of fantasy’Telegraph