Book description
The daughter of rich but neglectful parents, Terisa Morgan lives alone
in a New York City apartment, a young woman who has grown to doubt her
own existence. Surrounded by the flat reassurance of mirrors, she leads
an unfulfilled life-until the night a strange man named Geraden comes
crashing through one of her mirrors, on a quest to find a champion to
save his kingdom of Mordant from a pervasive evil that threatens the
land.
Terisa is no champion. She wields neither magic nor power. And yet, much
to her own surprise, when Geraden begs her to come back with him, she
agrees. Now, in a culture where women are little more than the
playthings of powerful men, in a castle honeycombed with secret passages
and clever traps, in a kingdom threatened from without and within by
enemies able to appear and vanish out of thin air, Terisa must become
more than the pale reflection of a person. For the way back to Earth is
closed to her. And the enemies of Mordant will stop at nothing to see
her dead. Stephen R. Donaldson (1947 - )
Stephen Reeder Donaldson was born in 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio. From the
age of three until he was sixteen he lived in India with his father, a
medical missionary, who worked extensively with lepers; it was here that
he conceived the character of Thomas Covenant. He was awarded the John
W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer for his debut series, 'The
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever', which also won the
British Fantasy Award and was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award.
He is the author of two subsequent Thomas Covenant series, the
'Mordant's Need' duology and space opera quintet 'The Gap', among other
works. He won the World Fantasy Award in 2000 for collection Reave
the Just and Other Tales
.
