Böcker av Tamara Brigham

Settled into the domestic life of father, benefactor, bard, and duke, Kavan had forgotten that one small, disconnected fragment of Sight...until the loss of the one he loved most led him to find the broken, beautiful woman discarded on the banks of his lake. Discarded there by a Gate that should not exist. Discarded in a way that should not be possible.One glimpse of her and he knew that she, like the Sight, was a portent of change that promised to turn his world upside down.She brought the old familiar self-doubts thundering back and threatened to fulfill that promise of upheaval with a swell of heart wrenching possibilities.With famine and plague twisting the Sovereignties in the wind, change would come, regardless of the choices he made. What those changes could mean, what they would be, would depend on whether he chose to pass through the doors of history and knowledge she opened...or whether he closed his eyes and turned his back on the secrets his people, his Faith, his blood had too long denied.

Haunted by memories of the night Venn Vanished, Rhyd Ballard’s life morphed into shadows, into a war against the law-keeping Crows who roamed the Levels arresting dissidents, radicals, addicts and those deemed traitors to the City.The Scarecrow was born that night, to stand alone against the Founder, against the Crows, determined to save those who could not save themselves…or die trying.He had nothing left to live for.But no one, not Rhyd, not the Crows, not the Founder, could foresee the day when the Outside would creep into their lives in the most innocent of guises, exposing secrets that would either pint Hebanthe Falls on a path towards ruin or salvation.

The path spred before Kavan, to undo an ancient wrong and cleanse away the primordial evil seething at the heart of Enesfel, at the heart of an Teren-Elyi conflict that had boiled for centuries, meant going back. Going home. Facing the pain he had tried to forget. Facing the adoration the healing of his hands would certainly generate.Facing Princess Diona again.He did not feel ready. He did not want to go. But Kórahm had bid it, and Kavan knew there was no thwarting destiny.Unsure of what awaited him, unsure what the Heretic-Saint’s commission would lead him to, be it victory or death, Kavan accepted the inevitable and began the arduous journey back to Rhidam, back to family and friends, back to himself with Wortham at his side in a desperate race against a deadline he could not foresee.With that evil dogging him at every turn, the young Lachlan King fighting to find his footing in an adult world he felt ill-prepared for, and Rhidam struggling for its very survival against the taint of the Elyri-hating Corylliens, Kavan could not know if he would arrive in time to do what history demanded of him.Or if there would be anything left of the world he had known, those he loved the most, if he did.He had to succeed. He did not believe Rhidam, or the Lachlans, or the Elyri in Enesfel would survive another year if he failed.

Enesfel had known peace for eleven years. The reign of Arlan Lachlan ushered in a period of prosperity the kingdom had not enjoyed since the days of Kings Innis and Donal. In Rhidam, Kavan's life settled into a comfortable routine of music and the tutoring of the royal Lachlan children, an effort to hide, to leave the epitaphs of miracle-worker and saint behind.A specter from the past, however, brings with it a rumor, and King Arlan is forced to reconcile history with the future if Enesfel is to maintain stability throughout the Five Sovereignties.As Enesfel prepares for war, Kavan is pulled from his King's side by a frantic race against destiny to protect the lives of innocent children…for only Kavan has any hope of thwarting the path the Sight has stretched out before him…while bringing him face to face with a secret buried in Elyriá's antiquity and opening a portal perhaps better left closed.