The Wanderers

PaulaBrandon's acclaimed fantasy trilogy comes to a triumphant conclusion in anunforgettable collision of magic, intrigue, and romance.

Timeis running out. Falaste Rione is imprisoned, sentenced to death. And eventhough the magical balance of the Source is slipping and the fabric of realityitself has begun to tear, Jianna Belandor can think only of freeing the man sheloves. But to do so, she must join a revolution she once despised-and riskreunion with a husband she has ample reason to fear.

Meanwhile,undead creatures terrorize the land, slaves of the Overmind-a relentlessconsciousness determined to bring everything that lives under its sway. Allthat stands in the way is a motley group of arcanists whose combined powerswill barely suffice to restore balance to the Source. But when Jianna's father,the Magnifico Aureste Belandor, murders one of them, the group begins tofracture under the pressures of suspicion and mutual hatred. Now humanity'shope rests with an unexpected soul: a misanthropic hermit whose next move mayturn the tide and save the world.

PaulaBrandon is the author of The Traitor's Daughter andThe Ruined City. She lives in New Jersey.

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