The Tower of Ravens
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Authors: Kate Forsyth
Tags: #Fiction, #Fantasy, #General, #Fantasy - Epic
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If I could only catch one. If I could only tame one. Then I could escape.
They would never be able to stop me if I flew
away on the back of a creature like that…
Bestselling author Kate Forsyth returns to the landscape of her popular
Witches of Eileanan
series with this Celtic fantasy about a young girl condemned for being different—and determined to tame a wild winged horse to help her escape…
One-Horn’s daughter is not like the others of her kind. Born of a human father, she lacks the horns so prized by her people and is scorned even by her own mother. Her only chance for escape is to capture one of the legendary flying horses and ride it to freedom— if she can stay on its back long enough.
And so this strange, feral girl begins a dangerous journey of love, death, and betrayal that will earn her a new name—Rhiannon, the rider no one can catch.
Found wounded, she is rescued and taken to the home of Lewen, a young man just beginning to understand his own magical potential as an apprentice-witch. Rhiannon soon becomes fascinated with the human world…and Lewen. Together they travel through a land where the dead walk and ghosts haunt the living, a place where Rhiannon encounters dark forces that endanger all of Eileanan. But to save the land, she must convince Lewen and the other apprentice-witches to trust the word of a wild half-human girl…
PRAISE FOR
THE WITCHES OF EILEANAN
SERIES
“Surprisingly original, well-developed, and a lot of fun.” —Locus
“A rich tapestry of settings, creatures, and people.” —Australian SF Online
Also by Kate Forsyth
The Witches of Eileanan series
The Witches of Eileanan
The Pool of Two Moons
The Cursed Towers
The Forbidden Land
The Skull of the World
The Fathomless Caves
A ROC BOOK
A HORSE OF AIR
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The Black Mare
A THING OF BEAUTY
Kingarth
The Wild Girl
Her Naming
The Jongleurs
The Apprentice Witches
Blackthorn
Barbreck-by-the-Bridge
Ardarchy
The Witch’s Tower
Crossing the Stormness
A PALE HORSE
Forest of the Dead
Fetterness Valley
Fettercairn Castle
The Nursemaid
The Great Hall
The Dream
Cold Comfort
The Haunted Room
The Tower of Ravens
The Scrying Pool
TO THROW A PRINCE
Tales of the Past
In the Night
Storming the Castle
The Chain Between Them
To my three beautiful children,
Benjamin, Timothy, and Eleanor
“[Necromancy] has its name because it works
on the bodies of the dead, and gives answers
by the ghosts and apparitions of the dead, and
subterraneous spirits, alluring them into the
carcasses of the dead by certain hellish charms,
and infernal invocations, and by deadly
sacrifices and wicked oblations.”
Francis Barrett,
The Magus
, 1801
“Through the Necromancer’s magic words,
the dust in the decayed coffin takes shape
again and rises from a long forgotten past.”
Emile Grillot de Givry,
Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy
, 1931
A HORSE OF AIR
“With a heart of furious fancies
whereof I am commander
With a burning spear
And a horse of air
To the wilderness I wander.”
Tom o‘ Bedlam,
traditional folksong
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