I got this book for Lynn Kurland's Story, The Tale of Two Swords. I don't care for the other authors, but I LOVE that story!
The story opens as young Harold is yearning for adventure, and decides he must settle for a story of adventure instead. His father reads The Tale of Two Swords, and we are sucked into the story of Gilrahen the Fae, whose father has just died on the battlefield, leaving him with a palace in ruins, no army, and an enemy who longs to kill him. He has an uncommon amount of magic, but he's not at all sure it'll be enough, and he doesn't care for the engagement he's bound to. Maher of Angesand flees from HER suitor. She runs to the palace, hoping that the king's mage can teach her the spells in her mother's book. Instead she finds a palace in ruins, a man who claims to be no one, yet knows the spells in her mother's book and has a crown and sword hidden under his bed.
I won't ruin the end of the story for you, but both it, and the epilogue (which switches back to young Harold) are fantastic!
PS. This is the story that is referred to several times in Star of the Morning and The Mage's Daughter.
The story opens as young Harold is yearning for adventure, and decides he must settle for a story of adventure instead. His father reads The Tale of Two Swords, and we are sucked into the story of Gilrahen the Fae, whose father has just died on the battlefield, leaving him with a palace in ruins, no army, and an enemy who longs to kill him. He has an uncommon amount of magic, but he's not at all sure it'll be enough, and he doesn't care for the engagement he's bound to. Maher of Angesand flees from HER suitor. She runs to the palace, hoping that the king's mage can teach her the spells in her mother's book. Instead she finds a palace in ruins, a man who claims to be no one, yet knows the spells in her mother's book and has a crown and sword hidden under his bed.
I won't ruin the end of the story for you, but both it, and the epilogue (which switches back to young Harold) are fantastic!
PS. This is the story that is referred to several times in Star of the Morning and The Mage's Daughter.
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