With her customary artistry and feel for period detail, the author of The Shepherd Kings weaves together the legends of Camelot and the Song of Roland, creating a tapestry rich with love and loyalty, sorcery, and sacrifice. Tarr's ability to give equal weight' to both history and myth provides her historical fantasies with both realism and wonder. Highly recommended.

It is the dawn of the thirteenth century, and Riehard the Lion,heart has grown in strength and wisdom since he was crowned King of Jerusalem-and dispatched the scheming sorcerer Sinan, who once endangered his very soul. But now the Old Man of the Mountain has returned...

Sioned, illegitimate half sister to the king and newly wed to an infidel sultan, has defeated Sinan before. Heir to both the faery Sight of ancient Wales and the demonie powers of the Devil's brood of Anjou, Sioned battled the sorcerer with the help of an army of the jinn. But this time Sinan is striking at the heart of his enemies by attaeking their most beloved.And Richard will be forced to call nnon a magic he is only just beginning to understand...