Dragonbards (24 page)

An omnibus containing the first two books of
the five originally published as the Children of Ynell series. In
most regions of Ere to be a Seer, gifted with telepathic and
visionary powers, means death—or does it? For some it may mean an
even worse fate: destruction of their minds and enslavement by the
dark powers determined to conquer the world. In
Ring of
Fire
, Zephy and the goatherd Thorn are dismayed to discover
that they themselves are Seers, but once they know, they are driven
to escape from the repressive city of their birth and rescue
others, many of them children, who have been captured and
imprisoned by its attackers. Only the discovery of one shard of a
mysterious runestone offers hope that they can succeed. In
The
Wolf Bell
, set in an earlier time, the child Seer Ramad seeks
the runestone itself with the aid of an ancient bell that enables
him to control and communicate with the thinking wolves of the
mountains, who become his friends. But will they be a match for his
enemies, the evil Seers of Pelli, who are determined to control
Ramad’s mind and through him, to obtain the stone for their own
dark purpose?

An omnibus containing the last three novels
of the five originally published as the Children of Ynell
series—
The Castle of Hape, Caves of Fire and Ice
, and
The
Joining of the Stone
—which tell of the adult lives of the
characters in
The Shattered Stone
. As a child Ramad of the
Wolves had sought the potent Runestone of Eresu that could save his
world from the dark, only to have it shatter at the moment it came
into his hands. Now as a man, leader of his fellow Seers in their
war against the dark powers, he knows it is up to him to find and
rejoin the shards before evil Seers can do so. Following his true
love Telien into far reaches of Time, he is followed in turn by the
Seer Skeelie, who also loves him. The quest to make the stone whole
again demands the commitment not only of Ramad but of others,
ultimately including his son, for only far forward in Time can the
final battle against the dark forces be fought.