Instead of mentors, they got monstersย .ย .ย .
Thatโs what Xerak, Vereez, and Grunwold think when three strange creatures shimmer into being within the circle of Hettua Shrine. Their conclusion is reasonable enough. After all, theyโve never seen humans before.
As for Margaret Blake, Peg Gallegos, and Tessa Brownโmore usually known as Meg, Peg, and Tegโtheyโre equally astonished but, oddly enough, better prepared. Age and experience have accustomed them to surprises. A widely varied course of reading material has intellectually prepared them for the idea that other worlds, even worlds where people with traits more commonly ascribed to โanimalsโ may exist.
Then there is the mysterious verse that Teg speaks as they arrive, words that seem to indicate that the Shrine must have been at least partially responding to the request made of it.
Despite doubts on all sides, the three unlikely mentors join forces with the three young โinquisitorsโ and venture out into the world Peg dubs โOver Where.โ First they must find the Library of the Sapphire Wind, destroyed years before.
Will they find answers there, or is this only the first stage in their search?
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About Jane Lindskold:
โIntricately plotted. . . . a thought-provoking tale of magic and politics, enlivened by Firekeeper's wry and wolfish point-of-view.โ โPublishers Weeklyย onย Wolf's Blood
โLindskold delivers an exotic historical fantasy that takes the reader from Victorian England to Egypt.โ โPublishers Weeklyย onย The Buried Pyramid
โI loved it. A thrilling, edge-of-the-seat readโI couldn't put it down!โ โTamora Pierce onย Fire Seasonย (cowritten with David Weber)
Jane Lindskoldย is the award-winning,ย New York Timesย best-selling author of more than twenty-five novels, includingย Library of the Sapphire Windย andย Aurora Borealis Bridge, the six-volume Firekeeper Saga (aka โThe Wolf Booksโ), the two athanor novels (Changerย andย Changerโs Daughter), the three volumes of the Breaking the Wall series, the Artemis Awakening series, and many more. Lindskold has also written in collaboration with David Weber (Fire Seasonย andย Treecat Wars) and Roger Zelazny (Donnerjackย andย Lord Demon). When sheโs not writing or reading, sheโs likely being ordered around by a variety of small animals. Lindskold lives in New Mexico.