We use affiliate links on this website, which means that when you click a link, we may earn a commission if you place an order, at no additional cost to you.
In the tales of World Fantasy Award-winning author Patricia McKillip, nothing is ever as it seems. A mirror is never just a mirror; a forest is never just a forest. Here, it is a place where a witch can hide in her house of bones and a prince can bargain with his heart…where good and evil entwine and wear each others’ faces… and where a bird with feathers of fire can quench the fiercest longing…
We use affiliate links on this website, which means that when you click a link, we may earn a commission if you place an order, at no additional cost to you.
From the World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Bards of Bone Plain.
Something half-woke in him, and he froze on the threshold, seeing misshapen faces billow in the flames.
As a child, Rook had been taken in by the bards of Luly, and raised as one of their own. Of his past he knew nothing—except faint memoires of fire and death that he’d do anything to forget.
But nightmares, and a new threat to the island that had become his own, would not let him escape the dreadful fate of his true family. Haunted by the music of the bards, he left the only home he knew to wander the land of the power-hungry Basilisk who had destroyed his family. And perhaps, finally, to find a future in the fulfillment of his forgotten destiny…
