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Searching for her missing niece, Dion journeys to Akieva, the corrupt capitol of decadent Aramaya, and finds the girl trapped in a vicious web of necromancy and treachery created by Dion's archenemy, the demon Bedazzer, who will do anything to possess her. Original.
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Jane Routley is an Australia-born writer who made her literary debut with Mage Heart, followed by its sequel, Fire Angels. She divides her time between her native land and Copenhagen, Denmark.
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The third fantasy outing (after Fire Angels) of the mage Dion Holyhands (aka Dion Demonslayer, Lady of Ruinac) takes her across the ocean to the land of Aramaya, the center of civilization and, she suspects, the current home of her missing niece, Syndal (aka Dally). Dion and her friend Kitten survive shipwreck to reach Akieva, the capital of a country with most of its features borrowed (if intelligently) from czarist Russia, and soon encounter the niece. But Dion's niece turns out to be in thrall to a powerful conspiracy of necromancers, and is in fact possessed by Dion's old nemesis, the demon Bedazzer. In rapid succession, Dion begins an affair with the demon-hunter Count Nikolai Terzu, rescues her niece, is reconciled with her ex-husband and has to chase down the necromancers to their stronghold in the southern marshes of Aramaya's latest conquest, Mazorra. Even Dion needs help on the last errand, and gets it from Aliceander the Crocodile Goddess, ruler of the marshes. Like its predecessors, the book combines romance, mystery and adventure in a fantasy setting, and in spite of the author's very fair degree of skill, this particular troika doesn't pull well in harness. Dion's obsession with her childlessness will surely grow tedious for some readers. Routley deserves credit for superior world-building and above average characterization, however; even if she isn't doing anything new here, she is at least covering familiar ground with more aplomb than are many of her colleagues. (June)
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good condition June 1999 First Avon Eos Paperback Edition. Published by Avon Books, NY, USA. Publication Print Number-line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Author: Jane Routley. Cover Art: Donato. ISBN: 9780380794287. Approx dims: 205mm h x 130mm w x 21mm d. Intact clean, glossy condition covers with slight creasing and slight signs of handling. Intact spine. 278 clean tanned inside pages of English text, no inscriptions. Page ends tanned. Image shown is actual book for sale. Synopsis: Searching for her missing niece, Dion journeys to Akieva, the corrupt capitol of decadent Aramaya, and finds the girl trapped in a vicious web of necromancy and treachery created by Dion's archenemy, the demon Bedazzer, who will do anything to possess her. Seller Inventory # ABE-1581247858775
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