Book description
Long ago the Mages of Alasea, beset by a dark and implacable evil, made
a last desperate stand to preserve some remnant of their once-beautiful
land. Knowing their own destruction to be inevitable, the Mages gathered
the last of their magic and stored it away against the need and peril of
a distant time. In doing so the Mages gave the people of Alasea a future
and a hope -- and damned themselves forever ... Now, five centuries
after their destruction, a young girl, Elena, inherits the powers that
the Mages had so carefully hidden from their enemy. But though the Mages
are long dead their ancient foe is not -- and when the Dark Lord learns
of Elena's power he turns all of his terrible strength against her.
Desperate and alone, fleeing from disaster, escaping into darkness,
Elena seeks out the allies and knowledge that can help her to master her
bitter gifts and cast down the evil that shattered the land of Alasea
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co. uk James Clemens was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1961. He now has
a veterinary practice in Sacramento, California, where he shares his
home with two Dalmations, a stray Shepherd and a love-sick parrot named
Igor. Wit'ch Fire is his first novel.
