DHIAMMARA
Maggie Furey
Bantam Spectra Books, 1997
ISBN: 0-553-57557-0 (paperback)
Maggie Furey's glittering epic sweeping from Aurian through Harp of Winds and Sword of Flame, climaxes as Aurian draws near to a deadly enemy lurking in a city forgotten by time. . .
Bearing the Staff of Earth and the Harp of Winds, the Lady Aurian secretly returns to the holy city
of Nexis--ten years in the future. Now its marbled towers are desolate, its river port ravaged, its
magefolk a mere legend. Here she must begin the search for her vanished soulmate, Anvar, and her
lost child. . . and hunt down the evil adversary who stole from her the Sword of Flame, last of the
four great primal weapons. But Aurian's final battle awaits her far away in the southlands. For there
dwells her old nemesis, the crazed Archmage Miathan--and there, in the ancient city of Dhiammara,
broods a dark magic that could shatter forever the destined redemption of her world.
At the close of Sword of Flame, the evil Mage Eliseth disappears through a rift in time, taking with
her Lady Aurian's lover, Anvar, and two of the powerful Arifacts of the Old Magic. Accompanied
by a handful of companions, Lady Aurian gives a chase, only to find herself thrown into a corrupt
future world ravaged by Eliseth's schemes. Unable to control the Harp of Winds, and with the
power of her staff tainted, she and her cohorts must nonetheless rescue Anvar, win the Sword, and
crush the sinister Mage forever.
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