Witch Fire. Book One Of The Banned And The Banished

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: The Ballantyne Publishing Group
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1999
Edition: Reprint

Description: 428 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. On A Fateful Night Night Five Centuries Ago, Three Mages Made A Desperate Last Stand, Sacrificing Everything To Preserve The Only Hope Of Goodness In The Beautiful Doomed Land Of Alasea.

Publishers Description: From a brilliant new voice in fantasy comes a band of heroes, a world in peril, and an unforgettable heroine whose unexpected gift of magic awakens an ancient, slumbering evil.On a fateful night five centuries ago, three made a desperate last stand, sacrificing everything to preserve the only hope of goodness in the beautiful, doomed land of Alasea. Now, on the anniversary of that ominous night, a girl-child ripens into the heritage of lost power. But before she can even comprehend her terrible new gift, the Dark Lord dispatches his winged monsters to capture her and bring him the embryonic magic she embodies.Fleeing the minions of darkness, Elena is swept toward certain doom-and into the company of unexpected allies. Aided by a one-armed warrior and a strange seer, she forms a band of the hunted and the cursed, the outcasts and the outlaws, to battle the unstoppable forces of evil and rescue a once-glorious empire...

ISBN: 0345417062