The Soul Drinker

An omnibus edition of the Drinker of Souls novels.

THE SOUL DRINKER: Book (1) One: Drinker of Souls; Book (2) Two: Blue Magic; Book (3) Three: A Gathering of Stones

Bran was happy in her peaceful village - until the Temueng invaders came. Death for many, slavery for some was the curse these new rulers brought. Only the intervention of the goddess Slya Fireheart saved Brann herself from such a fate. For Slya had marked the young woman for a special purpose, and brought two companions to help her fulfill it.

Yaril and Jaril were beings of energy in their own dimension, demonic shpaeshifters to the people of Brann's world. Change children, they transformed Brann into their Drinker of Souls, able to drain the energy from the living so that they might feed on it and survive. Together, under the protection of Slya and aided (erratically) by Tungjii - the male/female god of chance and luck - Bran, Yaril and Jaril set out to free those of her family enslaved by the enemy Temueng. Before their quest was done, it would lead them to distant lands that were home to witches, murderious villains, and the ever-present ghosts of the restless dead.

Yet the search for those lost to her was just the beginning of Brann's adventures. Other gods besides Slya and Tugjii had designs upon her. They would remorselessly plunge the Soul drinker into a battle against the most powerful wizard to ever curse the lands of men, forcing her to stand with allies from worlds beyonbd her own, gifted with talents that defied all the laws of magic.

But even if Brann did triumph, she would remain all too vulnerable to a power that had sworn to break free of its gods-created prison at any cost. Hovering on the verge of total dissolution, the Chained God would call upon Brann and her comrades to undertake an impossible mission--to obtain six magical orbs from strongholds no one had ever been able to breach. And the price of failure would be greater than Brann's world and people could ever pay.