New Releases by Patricia A. Mckillip

For over twenty years, World Fantasy Award winner Patricia A. McKillip has captured the hearts and imaginations of thousands of readers. Now at last her renowned Riddle-Master trilogy–The Riddle-Master of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire, and Harpist in the Wind–long out of print, is collected in one volume. It is considered her most enduring and beloved work. Now it is collected in one volume for the first time–the epic journeys of a young prince in a strange land, where wizards have long since vanished...but where magic is waiting to be reborn.

Face contre terre, le roi de Pelucir gît, démembré. Abandonné aux chiens. Dans le château, la reine expire en mettant au monde son second fils, Talis. Ombres, spectres fumants ! Depuis la catastrophe sanglante, tout n''est que cauchemar dans le petit royaume défait. Les murs calcinés du donjon grouillent de silhouettes meurtrières. Le Champ du Chasseur résonne encore du râle des mourants. Quel homme, quel sortilège hideux, ont déferlé sur la contrée, sur la vie, sur les rêves de ses habitants ? Atrix Wolfe, le mage légendaire, le loup Blanc, disparu depuis vingt ans ? Mage renégat... Impossible ! Et pourtant... La vérité pourrait bien se trouver dans le livre qu''Atrix Wolfe a enfoui à Chaumenard, au cœur du granit. Le mystérieux grimoire que parcourt aujourd''hui le prince Talis, derrière ses grosses lunettes...

Following The Sorceress and the Cygnet, Patricia A. McKillip returns with the sorceress Nyx and her niece Meguet. Together, the duo must face down a pair of mysterious magicals: a mage hell-bent on stealing a hidden treasure, and a firebird who transforms people and objects into precious materials. Each dawn, the firebird transforms into the form of a man, able to disappear into the surrounding town. As they seek out the true identity of the firebird and try to keep the powerful mage from achieving its ultimate prize, Nyx and Meguet set out on an adventure that will take them through various enchanted and alluring realms.

From the World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Bards of Bone Plain. The Wayfolk are a dark-haired, wandering people who shun doors and walls. Corleu is Wayfolk, albeit with hair the color of the moon. But when his companions and his own true love become trapped in an unearthly swamp beyond the reach of time, he dares to cross a forbidden and forbidding threshold, to enter a dark house that should not exist, to meet with a tinker who is also a king, and to embark on a quest for the one long-lost treasure that may free his people: the heart of the Cygnet. The Cygnet is a figure of myth and legend, like the Gold King, the Blind Lady, the Dancer, and the Warlock. Once Corleu had thought these beings to live only in the stars and in children''s rhymes. Now he knows that they are as real as himself, and that it is the Cygnet that holds the others at bay. To find the heart, he must walk paths he never imagined: apprentice himself to a beautiful sorceress of uncertain motives, brave the Fire Bear in its lair, catch the Blood Fox by its shadow, and elude a valiant woman warrior whose destiny is strangely linked to his own. More, Corleu must also wrestle with his own conscience. For if he fails in his quest, those he loves are lost forever to timeless limbo. But if he claims the heart, then the Cygnet falls and so do all who live...

As they work to create a beautiful room for the brother of one of them who had attempted suicide, three friends find their lives deeply affected by their project.