Wintertide

SORCERY. TREACHERY. LOVE. For centuries the Infernal War has been waged by witches and sorcerers to control the Orb of Knowledge. The war must end. At Wintertide, the Hill Raiders attack the village of Cirrus Grove. The sea captain's daughter is raped, and a child conceived. "If the child is to be who the stones say she will, it's best I raise her." Bronya the Healer tends the birth. Having read the truth in the Stones, in the midst of a maelstrom, Bronya takes the babe to her cave....
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SORCERY. TREACHERY. LOVE. For centuries the Infernal War has been waged by witches and sorcerers to control the Orb of Knowledge. The war must end. At Wintertide, the Hill Raiders attack the village of Cirrus Grove. The sea captain's daughter is raped, and a child conceived. "If the child is to be who the stones say she will, it's best I raise her." Bronya the Healer tends the birth. Having read the truth in the Stones, in the midst of a maelstrom, Bronya takes the babe to her cave. Warded now by the signs and symbols of magick, she keeps the child, Khamsin, safe from the Sorcerer. On the eve of Khamsin's eighteenth birthday, the Hill Raiders, come again. They murder the inhabitants of her village. Blaming Khamsin for witchery, the survivors of Cirrus Grove nearly take her life. The Tinker, selling pots and pans, heals Khamsin. And he accompanies her on a journey that magick omens have directed her to take. One of them knows the truth. One of them is seeking, just as she is sought. The war for the Orb is about to end. But only love can win it.