Oathbreakers — Mercedes Lackey

SUNHAWK'S QUEST

When Idra, leader of the crack mercenaries known as the Sunhawks failed to return fro a journey to her home kingdom of Rethwellan, Tarma and Kethry, warrior and mage, set out in search of their vanished leader. Sisters sword and spell, their fates bound Goddess-sworn oath, they were eternally pledged to fight the forces of evil.

And evil had indeed cast its shadow over Rethwellan. Idra, so they were told, had left long ago on a search for a legendary magical sword which could reveal which of her two brothers was meant to become the new king. With he princess gone, her younger brother had been branded an outlaw and her older brother had claimed the throne. Both instinct and mage-lore told Kethry and Tarma that all was not as it seemed, that both Idra and
Her people were in terrible jeopardy. Yet would their Goddess given powers, aided by those of a Herald of Valdemar, prove strong enough to break the dark enchantment possessing this land?