Book description
Late one stormy night three infant princesses are born. As each baby is
placed into her mothers arms, so the Archimage Binah bestows on her a
gift of great power: a pendant containing a bud of the long-extinct
Black Trillium. One day that power will be all that protects the
princesses from certain doom Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930 - 1999)
Marion Zimmer was born on a farm in Albany, New York, in 1930, and
married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. She received a B. A. from Hardin
Simmons University, Texas, and did post-graduate work at the University
of California, Berkeley, during which time she helped found the Society
for Creative Anachronism. She sold her first story in 1952 and was a
writer of note for over four decades. Bradley is best known for two
signature series: the 'Darkover' science fantasy series and her
Arthurian masterpiece, The Mists of Avalon and its sequels. She also
edited anthologies for 14 years and published Marion Zimmer Bradley's
Fantasy Magazine, which ran for 50 quarterly issues between 1988 and the
end of 2000. Marion Zimmer Bradley died in Berkeley, California, on
September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a major heart attack.
