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In the icy northern realm of Eron, three young artisans bound by an unspeakable act of violence arrive at an isolated gem mine on a special commission for their king. They are the arrogant but talented Eddyn; Avall, his archrival; and beautiful Strynn, newly wed to Avall, but carrying Eddyn's child.

Meanwhile, to the south, amid Ixti's scorpion-riddled sands and sensuous cities, a horrible accident has forced Prince Kraxxi into exile with blood on his hands and a price on his head.

The four will be drawn together--and torn apart--by a magnificent find: a gem with magical properties beyond anyone's imagining or control. It is a struggle in which hidden forces pursue a frighteningly sinister agenda. For whoever possesses the gem holds the future of the world... and the power to destroy it.

As the realm of Eron sits frozen in the grip of winter, two men struggle through the snow-clogged Wild toward the citadel of their king: the arrogant goldsmith Eddyn, haunted by his past crimes, and his bitter rival, Avall, anxious to increase the power of his clan. Each man brings news of a magical gem discovered in the northern mines.

Meanwhile, Avall's twin sister, Merryn, and her lover, exiled prince Kraxxi, have been captured by Kraxxi's outraged father. As Ixti's king readies his first assault in a devastating war against an unsuspecting Eron, he will force Merryn and Kraxxi to terrible betrayals that will bring Eron's fall ever nearer. As the armies of Ixti crash across the border, Avall and Eddyn must seek their destinies. For each knows the power of the magical gem and can use it for unbelievable good-or unimaginable evil.

Peace has come to the realm of Eron, and with it a new High King: young, inexperienced Avall, victor in the war against Ixti, sole possessor of the magical gems taken from the mines of the frozen north. But as Eron attempts to heal from the bloody conflict and a devastating plague, unrest once again grips this troubled land, stirred up by a secret cabal of powerful priests who call themselves the Ninth Face.

Avall struggles to quell the unrest and to understand and control the boundless magic of the mysterious gems. At the same time, his twin sister, Merryn, must make her own arduous journey a step ahead of those who would gladly claim her life. But it is the fanatical leaders of the Ninth Face who pose the greatest danger. They have put in motion a deadly plan to drive Avall from the throne, destroy the power of the noble clans, and take possession of the gems themselves-all in the name of their unbending god. For Eron the choice is stark indeed: an imperfect and inexperienced king... or the tyranny of the righteous.

While the Ninth Face, a dark religious sect, consolidate their grip on the capital city of Eron, far to the north King Avall's army attempts to rescue the king himself from imprisonment at Gem-Hold-Winter, now controlled by Zeff, a Ninth Face fanatic. But Avall is no longer there. Aided by the blind harpist Kylin, he has escaped from the hold in a blaze of improbable magic that transported the king and his closest followers to a dangerous wilderness.

As the royal armies prepare for siege and Eron's capital seethes with growing rebellion, Avall and his comrades must retrieve the magical Lightning Sword--now lost by Avall's sister, Merryn--and make their way back to the embattled citadel. Only when Avall has regained the Sword can he march on Eron's capital for a final showdown with the righteous priests whose law is total obedience and whose god is total power.

David Sullivan, a Georgia teenager, enjoys reading Irish myth. When he develops Second Sight, however, the reality of the Faerie world proves as dangerous as it is fantastic.

The magic, the mystery, and the spellbinding quest continue in this stunning sequel to Tom Deitz's first novel, Windmaster's Bane. Fireshaper's Doom finds David and his friends once again snared in the treachery of the immortal Sidhe.

In this, the third volume in the David Sullivan series, our hero is once again recalled to the faerie realm where a new enemy threatens to radically alter the course of a battle already in progress.

In this, the fourth book in the David Sullivan series, a rift in the faerie realm threatens to spill into the "real" world, causing untold chaos to both universes.

The fifth book in the David Sullivan series finds an otherworldly monster loose in the "real" world, forcing David and his friends to fight a faerie war in contemporary Georgia.

Haunted by the ghost of his father, Calvin McIntosh ventures into the Darkening Lands on the border of the Cherokee Ghost Country, where he is forced to confront an evil Cherokee witch and is helped by a panther-woman.

When the barriers between the human world and the Faerie world of myth crumble on All Hallows Eve, north Georgia college students David, Alec, Aiken, and Liz stumble into the middle of the treacherous Wild Hunt.

The World Walls separating the "real world" from the alternate world of Faerie are becoming so thin that Faerie can now be seen in satellite photographs. As craven mortal land developers threatens to exploit the magic lands, David Sullivan finds that it is up to him and his friends to prevent the High King Lugh from implementing his "final solution" to a most vexing problem--humankind.

The High King of Tir-Nan-Og has been deposed and imprisoned, and the throne of Faerie is under siege. Those who would seize its power will risk everything to defend their weakening borders from the unwitting invasion of mortal land developers -- even if it means drowning the entire state of Georgia. David Sullivan, human liaison between mortal and Faerie, must summon his friends to aid both races. But as the fate of thousands hangs in the balance, a very personal tragedy raises the stakes for David alone.

This is the first book in the Soulsmith fantasy series about a young man and the strange history of his family in the wilds of Georgia.

After five years of denial, Ronny Dillon returns to his ancestral home in Georgia, where he must face his tortured past and rediscover his destiny.

When the Luck of Welch County vanishes, Ronny Dillon must return to the ancestral site of his most terrible trials in order to awaken an ancient magic in metal and confront the dire threat to his legacy.