Kirjahaku

Turmoil envelops the lands adjoining the Middle Sea on the two-mooned world of Trascera. Wracked by nearly four decades of civil war, the once mighty Tieran Empire staggers down a path leading either to rebirth or destruction. The War of Houses pits the most powerful of Tieran nobility against one another in a struggle as interminable as it is bloody.In a far-flung Tieran territory, three friends come of age to face their uncertain future. Mat, the apprentice blacksmith, must answer a call to duty while his intended, Bodewhin, and Jaryd, an ambivalent student of law, face the twin coils of witchcraft and sorcery. Will Jaryd's new love interest to a young girl from a different culture and Mat and Bodewhin's love for each other survive the forces that threaten to tear them apart?Meanwhile, battle-weary Tieran soldier Quintus Glabrio Jens is caught up in the travails of civil war as he struggles to reconcile duty and conscience. Simple enough for a thoroughgoing professional, until he encounters a black-eyed beauty and the unthinkable.A sudden and unexpected end to the War of Houses sets into motion a sequence of events none could have foreseen. Citizens of the empire find themselves poised upon the precipice of rapid, widespread change. The world in which they were raised, the one their parents knew, and their grandparents thought would last forever is about to crumble. Only the most able will rise to meet what destiny so reveals.

Winds of change sweep ever more restively across lands surrounding the Middle Sea on the two-mooned world of Trascera.At Alger Castle on the rugged west coast of Kylgahra, Rynwicca Erryn, a brilliant young initiate, a sorcerer in training, struggles with the mystery that is the Yir, magic's Hidden Source. Amid the pangs of loneliness and the stirrings of first love, Rynwicca must learn to master the power unleashed within her or succumb to its siren's call and be consumed. Daunting for even the most courageous of sixteen-year-old girls, this is only one of the challenges she will be called upon to face. A sea voyage awaits her, a journey filled with peril and awakening.Meanwhile, Aeryk Emyrt, still unaware that he is the bastard-born laird of a broken clan, begins his quest deep into the majestic Torean Mountains, guiding a mixed company of Syrdisian royalty and Elven mercenaries. They travel in search of...well...Aeryk isn't exactly sure. Royals can be secretive and tricksome, and Elves, including the enigmatic, amber-eyed Jyn-Ael-Tor, are even more so.Aeryk's cousin, ex-sheriff Ranyl Emyrt, discovers that marriage isn't what he expected. Suddenly becoming one of two has placed him in largely uncharted territory. He finds himself embroiled once again in clan politics while fending off Guilley raiders. Then his father comes calling, bearing news that will set into motion a future none could have foreseen.