The Princess of Flames

On the stolen throne of Darion, King Sedry sits, haunted by the silent, grey eyes of his banished half-sister, whose Gift for magic was equal to his own – Elfrid, the Bastard.

At watch, encircled in darkness, Bal of Korent recalls a half-grown, dark-haired child, swift with saber, trained in warrior's ways, as no other woman before – Elfrid, the Sword.

In the tent of the Warrior Archbishop, his mistress Fialla dreams of a slim, proud girl, bent in sorrow over the bed of a dying old man – Elfrid, the Faithful.

And in the hushed gloom of night, a shadowed figure walks alone. Waiting for the morning, for the battle, for venegance. She has waited, in exile, for eight long years.

Now, Elfrid of Darion has come home...