About the Book
"The prince has... there has been an accident, a terrible accident.
Crown Prince Lovell is dead, Princess." I found myself sitting on the
floor with my skirts in a heap around me... The sea, I thought. I hear
the sea. Lovell had promised me that before I went up to Dunmorra to be
married in the autumn, he would steal me away for a day of freedom. We
would take a boat down to the sea and fish for sole over the sandbars.
That was when I started to scream.
The murder of
Eleanor's brother leaves her the sole heir to the crown of Eswy, a pawn
in the struggle for power between different religious and political
alliances. With her father a prisoner, Eleanor flees her mother's
schemes to marry her off to her cousin and finds herself hunted through
the wilderness, facing treachery on all sides. Maurey, the hero of
Nightwalker, and his friend, the Fen witch and warrior Korby, are
summoned back from a mission overseas to find and protect the princess.
Once a scullion and a fugitive, Maurey is now a young man of
considerable status and power, a Nightwalker warlock in charge of his
human brother's intelligence network. The mysterious symbol of the
Yehillon seems to point to a conspiracy against both Dunmorra and the
hidden Nightwalker kingdom of Talverdin, a conspiracy into which
Eleanor has stumbled. While the two human kingdoms of the island are
threatened with tyranny and Talverdin itself with annihilation, Maurey
and Eleanor struggle to unravel the plots that threaten the princess's
life and the peace of the three kingdoms.
