| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
418 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Man in the dream: Courts of the king -- The prisoner -- Suitors and chessmen -- Steel and darkness -- The priest on the knoll -- The Warden's answer -- The windows of Jent -- A face on the road -- Ill news by water -- The pale priest: Pain -- Angels and shadows -- On the stair -- Chatterfall -- The man in the reeds -- The house in the hills -- The place of white stones -- The deep of the cup -- Traitress: Cold morning -- Ordeal -- Phaedra's price -- The powers of iron -- The powers of shadow -- South wind. |
| Summary |
When Phaedra, a willful daughter of a baron, decides to marry for love, she sets off an unforseeable chain of events and a battle between good and evil. Filled with immense characters, this thrilling medieval fantasy filled with moral complexity and vision announces the arrival of a special new writing talent. Phaedra, the beautiful daughter of a baron, has been visited in dreams by an elusive knight for almost as long as she can remember. And when his presence becomes a reality, she is forced to choose him and a new life over her home and her father. But this sets off a chain of events that she could not have foreseen-a battle between good and evil, which is in turn violent and psychologically compelling. This stunning novel grapples with the huge themes of life, and turns the reader's expectations upside down again and again, with one vertiginious plunge after another. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.5 18.0 85919. |
| Subject |
Fantasy.
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| Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction.
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Young adult fiction.
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| ISBN |
0385750250 trade |
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038575034X library binding |
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0385605161 |
| Standard No. |
9780385750257 |
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