Book description
'The wind howled, and the lightening cascaded across the sky in
unimaginable streaks, a portent of what was to come . . . the
firstborn son of the Chosen One lives, and now he is ours.'
For three hundred years, Eutracia was a kingdom at peace. Then a
horror from the past, long thought vanquished, returned to wreak
dreadful revenge. The war against the Sorceresses of the Coven was
won, but victory came at a terrible cost: the king and queen dead, the
wizards' council decimated, and the land - ravaged by fear, scarred by
battle - lawless. And Prince Tristan, forced by the Coven to turn his
hand against his own and kill his father, is now a wanted man with a
price on his head.
In underground labyrinths that once bustled with life, the fugitive
prince, together with his twin sister and her infant daughter, the
wizard Wigg, sole surviving council member, and the crippled wizard
Faegan, returned from exile in the forests of Shadowood, take refuge.
To them falls the daunting task of rebuilding Eutracia, but it soon
becomes apparent that evil has not yet had its fill of this ravaged land.
An army of apprentice wizards, dispatched to hunt down the last
remaining servants of the Coven, has fallen victim to foul beings that
can only have been created out of hate. And, inexplicably, the sacred
source of all magic begins to fail. Without its sustaining force the
wizards will perish, and with them magic itself. With time and their
powers fast dwindling, Wigg and Faegan must discover who - or what -
has succeeded the Sorceresses, and now seeks to destroy Eutracia. As
the awful truth is revealed, it is Tristan who must face this new
enemy, an evil that transcends life itself, and fight the ultimate
battle - for his life, his land and his destiny...
Continuing the monumental adventure that began with The Fifth
Sorceress, here is confirmation that, in Robert Newcomb, epic fantasy
has found an exhilarating new voice.
Robert Newcomb travelled widely in his youth as a member of the
American Institute for Foreign Study. He now lives in Florida. The Fifth
Sorceress marked his début and is the first book in 'The Chronicles of
Blood and Stone' trilogy. The second volume, The Gates of Dawn, is also
published in Bantam paperback and the concluding novel, The Scrolls of
the Ancients, in Bantam Press trade paperback.
