It is the purpose of this sequel to capture the exciting and often troublesome challenges that faced this community in the last half of the twentieth century. But in an ever-shifting landscape of murders, betrayals, old secrets, and unholy sorcery, the three agentes will be forced to test the boundaries of magic, nature, and the divine.In With Lamps Burning, Sister Grace McDonald traced the growth of Saint Benedict’s Monastery from its establishment in Minnesota in 1857 to its centennial in 1957. Then the need to infiltrate a magical cabal leads Portier to Dante, a brooding, brilliant young sorcerer whose heretical ideas and penchant for violence threaten to expose the investigation before it's begun. But when the king of Sabria charges him to investigate an attempted murder that has disturbing magical resonances, Portier believes his dreams of a greater destiny might at last be fulfilled.Īs the king's new agente confide, Portier - much to his dismay - is partnered with the popinjay Ilario de Sylvae, the laughingstock of Sabria's court. Reduced to tending the library at Sabria's last collegia magica, he fights off despair with scholarship. In a kingdom on the verge of a grand renaissance, where natural science has supplanted failing sorcery, someone aims to revive a savage rivalry.įor Portier de Savin-Duplais, failed student of magic, sorcery's decline into ambiguity and cheap illusion is but a culmination of life's bitter disappointments. Winner of the 2009 Colorado Book Award, and winner (with Flesh and Spirit) of the 2009 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. Valen's search for healing grace leads him from Harrower dungeons to the very heart of the world, but only in the twilight of a legend does he at last discover the hard truth of the coming dark age and the glorious, terrible price of the land's redemption.and his own. Doomed to madness by his addiction to the doulon, and bound by oaths he refuses to abandon, the young sorcerer risks body and soul to rescue one child, seek justice for another, and bring the ailing land its righteous king.
As Navronne sinks deeper into civil war and perilous winter, Valen finds himself a bargaining chip in a deadly standoff. Even beings out of myth, the Danae guardians, whose dancing nurtures the earth and whose attention could prove the most costly of all. And the Pureblood Registry, determined to keep every pureblood sorcerer in thrall. There is the Bastard Prince Osriel, who steals dead men's eyes. Not just the murderous Harrower priestess Sila Diaglou, but everyone in Navronne seems to be after Valen. The mesmerizing conclusion to the fantasy epic Lighthouse Duet
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