Wild Magic — Jude Fisher

A MAELSTROM OF MAGIC

At the most recent Allfair, a time of truce, open hostilities have flared once more between the opposed countries of Eyra and Istria, threatening to bring all-out war to the world of Elda. But the opposing countries are not fully at fault, for powerful forces are at work which threaten to change their world and everyone in it. Magic is reawakening, and those caught in its wild power will be irrevocably altered:

VIRELAI: Once a mighty magician's apprentice, he has done the unthinkable--poisoned his Master and stolen his greatest treasures. Now he lives in terror of retribution, unable to understand or control that which he has stolen.

THE ROSE OF ELDA: This most unusual of women inspires unquenchable lust in any man who sees her. Yet she is an enigma even to herself, for she has no memory or knowledge of the world around her, nor any understanding of her strange powers.

ARAN ARANSON: Blinded by the magical pull of a treasure map, will he risk all he holds dear--family, home, honor, even his life--on an expedition that only a madman would undertake?

KATLA ARANSEN: Aran's daughter is the most accomplished blade-forger in all of Eyra, for she has a magical bond with the earth and can feel the pull of rock, metal, and crystal. But will her endless hunger for adventure prove her undoing?

SARO VINGO: When a dying magician imparts to him the ability to read minds and also a mysterious stone with the power to kill, will these terrible gifts destroy his own kind and sensitive soul?

Caught in a drama they cannot comprehend, will these players inadvertently change the face of Elda forever?