The Fire's Stone Author:Tanya Huff Thief, Swordsman and Wizardess... — Aaron - clan heir, he had fled his people when his beloved was slain by his own father's command, abandoning his training, duty and beliefs to become a thief. A master of his trade, he now dared the odds in Ischia, city of the volcano, where the price of being caught was death. — Darvish - Prince of Ischia, ... more »third son of a king who had no intention of giving up his throne. The prince was a drunkard, a lover and a wastrel, yet was gifted with sword skills and the ability to charm all around him. But not even his charm could free him from the political marriage now being planned.
Chandra - born a princess, she had chosen to become a Wizard of the Nine, that rarest of beings, able to master all the forms that sorcery could take. Now promised as Darvish's bride, she undertook a desperate journey to Ischia to convince him that they must not wed.
Aaron, Darvish and Chandra -- Three strangers whose fates were about to become intertwined. For someone had stolen the Stone, the magical talisman that stood between Ischia and the volcano's wrath. And unless the three could learn to work together on a quest to find the Stone, Ischia would drown in a sea of lava!« less