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- Earth-witch Naeri plots to overthrow the conquering horse-lords and restore her people to their ancestral lands. Although married to a powerful lord against her will, she falls in love with a caring blacksmith. A tale of magic, megaliths and bronze-age high adventure.
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Eileen Kernaghan is the author of seven critically acclaimed historical fantasies. Her YA novel The Snow Queen won the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award, the Aurora, for best speculative novel in English, while The Alchemist's Daughter was shortlisted for the Sheila Egoff Prize for Children's Literature. The Sarsen Witch was an Aurora nominee.
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She had had a name once, and a place in the world - preordained, unquestioned. Naeri, they had called her, the brown lily. A flower name, because she had been a pretty child, smooth-skinned and delicately made. In time, when she grew into full womanhood and wisdom she should have had another, secret name: a name of power.
Remembering those years, she saw circles within circles, like ramparts of banked earth, with herself - warm, loved, secure - inhabiting the center. Tribe, clan, hearth-family - the strong high walls of kinship had sheltered and surrounded her. With time, the faces had grown remote and shadowy, like figures out of Legend. But at night, sometimes,she woke with a hand clutching her heart.
She pushed back the ragged ends of her hair as she knelt beside her supper fire. No flower name would suit me now, she thought with irony. She saw herself in her mind's eye - chapped lips, windburned face, lean, hard-muscled body. A creature spare and strong and hardy as the gorse. In one terrible hour the horsemen had stripped her of everything - tribe, name, mother, hearthplace - leaving her only her sharp wits and a certain quiescent, unschooled power. And yet they had left her better armed than they knew.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Young Naeri, the only survivor of her tribe, lives by her wits. Captured by the horse-lords who have supplanted her people, she seems destined for a life of slavery-but the Mother watches over Her own. Naeri can hear the voices of the stones; her birthgift is geomancy, the earth-magic. When the time comes to learn the language of the stones, Naeri finds a teacher. When it is time to hear the voice of her own heart, she finds a man who loves her. And when it is time to awaken ancient powers, it is Naeri who guides the building of the great stone circle, which a Great Chief thinks will be eternal testament to his might. But Naeri knows the circle will harness the forces of both earth and sky-and can be used to destroy the horse-lords and restore the rule of the witchfolk . . Seller Inventory # 9780809571574
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. The Sarsen Witch | Eileen Kernaghan | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2007 | Juno Books | EAN 9780809571574 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Seller Inventory # 108134299