Maze of Moonlight
Gael Baudino
ROC Books, 1993
ISBN: 0-451-45230-5 (paperback)
Their race was far older than humankind, and few mortals believed they'd existed. Yet they still
saw the patterns of the past, present, and future. And in the patterns they saw two mortals who,
touched by magic, might make all the difference in an age of papal wars and fallen kingdoms.
Christopher, Baron of Aurverelle, had returned from the Crusades as a broken man. Vanessa, a
young peasant gifted girl - or cursed - with the Sight, had been sent by her parents to seek
employment in the Free Towns that bordered Christopher's lands. When Christopher rescued
Vanessa from almost certain death, it forged a bond between the two and drew the Elven folk to
heal them of both physical and emotional wounds. And the bond thus forged between mortals
and Elvenkind would soon be tested. For when war threatened the realm, only the combined
power of sword and spell offered any hope for defeating their foe....
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