The Ronan Awakening — John Christopher

In a world touched by gods and rife with cultures, races, and mysterious forces vying for power and dominance, this epic tale weaves across time and space itself as a dying race of Magi seek to restore magic in their broken world and reclaim their rightful supremacy over all inhabitants of Adonim...

Following the cataclysmic Great Sundering, the infamous magi known as Ronan have dwindled to near-extinction in the last thousand years. Those left have faced imprisonment and exile for over half a century. However, Magrados is a power that cannot be denied -- and two Ronan children, born half a world apart, must learn to survive in a cruel society out for their blood.

Aritian, an assassin born in the Far South, has spent his life in the bittersweet shackles of enslavement to the powerful Master of the Dranguis Guild. After his existence as a living weapon in a corrupt city leads to deceit, conspiracy, and slaughter on an unimaginable scale, he is forced to break free of his bonds to escape his doom, no matter what the cost.

Devaney, blind and born to farmers in the shadow of the Grey Mountains, spends her days at the edge of the treacherous Ordu Empire's crusade. The conquering of her homeland led to forced conversions and bloody "cleansings," but in her lonely hamlet, she imagines wondrous adventures in far-off realms. These fantasies change, however, when her dreams turn to dark dangers too real to be madness, yet too unearthly to be true.

In a search for discovery, truth, and freedom, these two must be willing to sacrifice everything -- or risk the loss of the Ronan race forever.