The Twelve Treasures:
THE SWORD OF MAIDEN TEARS
Rosemary Edgehill
DAW Books, 1994
ISBN: 0-88677-622-8 (paperback)
It was Beltane Eve and student librarian Ruth Marlowe's thirtieth birthday when she stumbled
over New York City's latest mugging victim. He was tall, with long silvery hair, catlike eyes,
pointed ears, and he was garbed in the finest of hand-sewn medieval wear. His name - he told
Ruth and her friends, Naomi, Michael, Jane, and Philip, when they gathered to hear his tale - was
Rohannan Melior of the house of Silver Silences in Elphame.
How he had come to the mortal World of Iron, Melior himself was not certain. But he was
positive that he must reclaim the priceless magical item the muggers had stolen from him - the
Sword of Maiden's Tears. For the Sword. One of the Twelve Treasures of Elphame, had been
given into his care, and if he could not produce it at High King's crowning, his entire line would
face permanent exile.
And human, to, would suffer for the Sword's loss. For the curse on this magic blade was that any
mortal who wielded it would be transformed onto a grendel, an almost indestructible monster
which preyed only upon humans. But in a city with as many hiding places and pitfalls as New
York, what hope did one elf lord and five mere mortals have of finding and slaying the
unstoppable force of evil that had stolen Melior's treasure?
Read a chapter of THE SWORD OF MAIDEN'S TEARS
on Rosemary's site.
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