Alfred has left the monastic sanctuary of St. Ruan's and, with Thea, his friend and nemesis, has turned eastwards to Constantinople, the jewel in Byzantium's crown. There he is rescued from near death by a noble woman and soon both he and Thea are accepted into the lives of the family and their city.
But outside the walls the armies are gathering, and within, political turmoil threatens the lives of those whom Alf has come to love. He is forced to use his unearthly powers but soon finds that they afford scant protection amidst the carnage soon to be unleashed.
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My first novel, The Isle of Glass, appeared in 1985, and eventually won the Crawford Award, as well as being a finalist for the Locus Award for Best First Novel. My YA time-travel science fiction/fantasy/historical novel, Living in Threes, appeared as an ebook from Book View Café in 2012, and is now in print. My new novel, a space opera, will be published by Book View Cafe in 2015. In between, I've written historicals and historical fantasies and epic fantasies, some of which have been reborn as ebooks from Book View Café. Various of my novels have been finalists for the World Fantasy Award and the Locus Award, and I've had short stories reprinted in Year's Best anthologies and collections of classic fantasy, science fiction, and alternate history. I live in Arizona with an assortment of cats, two dogs, and a herd of Lipizzan horses.
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