About the Book
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel 1994, World Fantasy Award nominee 1994.
In this extraordinary fantasy novel of love and death, young Tikat enters a shadow world of magic and mystery as he searches for the lover whose death and resurrection he witnessed. It is a wild ride that sets him on the trail of three cloaked women who are blessed – or cursed – to undertake an impossible mission of their own.
All their fates will be irrevocably linked in a far distant inn, but it is not until the arrival of the once-powerful mentor who has sumoned the three women that the true quest will begin. For he, who has been the greatest of wizards, lingers at the edge of death. And only they can save him from this doom brought on by an enemy who is heir to all the wizard's magic.
