Justice, honor, integrity and a healthy dose of powerful
magic have sent Kaylin Neya to the Hawks, one of the three
arms of the Halls of Justice. For years, she's trained and
schooled to learn to be an asset to them, in a world where
being human can put one at a disadvantage as far as
strength, power and intelligence against the other well-
endowed races. Fighting to leave the horrors of the fiefs
of Nightshade and all those murders years ago behind her
will not be an easy thing. Shadows mark more than memory
for those who travel in their midst and Kaylin has been so
marked in her youth.
Now years later, the horrible deaths have started back up
in the city of her youth, and Kaylin is somehow the key to
both the mystery and the murders. Kaylin is forced to
accept the assistance of Severn, the boy who helped raise
her and then did something so unspeakable it turned her
fiercely against him. Only Lord Grammayre, the Hawklord,
can keep her from killing him on the spot. This trio is
rounded out by Tiamaris, who's a power and an enigma unto
himself. To do so, she will allow herself to face her
dreaded past, ally with her enemies and dare to tap into
magic never meant for human use. Kaylin only knows one
thing; she must stop the deaths of the innocent children
and must do so now.
Sagara places you right alongside Kaylin as she uncovers
her shadowed destiny. A wickedly amusing sense of humor
combined with nonstop action, engaging characters and a
fantasy world filled with creatures who serve either
justice, chaos or the shadows in between, make this an
incredible must-read novel. More is stirring than evil, for
all of the reader's senses are engaged when reading this
exciting, twisting story. One cannot help but laugh
ruefully at the mirror communication system and those
dreaded wake-up calls. Nor can the reader stay completely
safe on one side of the page. Where Kaylin travels, so does
the reader, and it's a walk through fire and death and
paths cast in shadow.
Seven years ago Kaylin fled the crime-riddled streets of
Nightshade, knowing that something was after her.
Children were being murdered -- and all had the same odd
markings that mysteriously appeared on her own skin . . .
Since then, she's learned to read, she's learned to fight
and she's become one of the vaunted Hawks who patrol and
police the City of Elantra. Alongside the winged Aerians and
immortal Barrani, she's made a place for herself, far from
the mean streets of her birth.
But children are once again dying, and a dark and familiar
pattern is emerging, Kaylin is ordered back into Nightshade
with a partner she knows she can't trust, a Dragon
lord for a companion and a device to contain her powers --
powers that no other human has. Her task is simple -- find
the killer, stop the murders . . . and survive the
attentions of those who claim to be her allies!
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