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"A skilfully told tale, blending myth and prehistory into a carefully wrought
world where the conflict of Ice Age forces is focussed in the person of an enigmatic
smith....a trilogy worth following."
Roger Zelazny
"Serviceable plotting, bold imaginings, some original touches; talented
work..."
Kirkus
In the seven years that followed the battle for the control of the legendary city of
Morvannec the Mastersmith Elof, now a lord among men, has lived happily with Kara, whom he
freed from the bonds of the Lady of the Ice. But Kara herself is no mortal, and the
Mastersmith fears that she may one day leave him -- a fear which drives him to misuse his
own uncanny powers to bind her himself. He succeeds only in driving her away.
Haunted, guilt-ridden, Elof can do nothing but follow his lost love’s flight
eastward, across the Seas of the Sunrise, towards the long-lost realm of Kerys from which
the peoples of his land once came. In the myth-filled lands of the East he finds worse
terrors than he has ever had to face, as the Powers of the Ice launch their final assault
against mankind, and ultimately life itself. Injured, imprisoned, beset by the malice of
men and Powers alike, Elof must face his past, his future and his final, mysterious
destiny.
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