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After a wait of more than five years, Judith Tarr delivers the sixth Avaryan Rising novel, the fast-paced and well-written Tides of Darkness. The sequel to The Hall of the Mountain King, The Lady of Han-Gilen, A Fall of Princes (collected in Avaryan Rising), Arrows of the Sun, and Spear of Heaven, Tides of Darkness will please both fans and newcomers to Tarr's ambitious, popular, and critically acclaimed fantasy series. Daros, the handsome young heir to Han-Gilen, is a drunken, womanizing, useless peacock of a prince. But he is also a powerful untrained mage--and a living Gate between worlds. When he opens his Gate and breaks the strictest laws of his world, he glimpses a living darkness that is devouring worlds--and drawing ever closer to his own. Then he is arrested by the Gate-mages. Daros is sentenced to serve the ex-emperor, the still-youthful mage Estarion. Joining with Estarion's beautiful granddaughter and heir, the powerful mage Merian, they search through other worlds for an explanation of the implacable darkness and a way to oppose it. Then Estarion vanishes on the far side of that malignant shadow--and Daros, seeking him, vanishes as well. --Cynthia Ward
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