Lee, Tanith

Tanaquil, a sorceress like her mother, returns home after many years of traveling to find that her own true love has become engaged to her sister, and her jealousy leads her to an encounter with her mirror self, Tanakil, who is busy plotting revenge.

The third volume in the Claidi Journals trilogy finds the heroine on a quest to find her beloved Argul who believes she willingly abandoned him on their wedding day--a journey that brings her to the Raven Tower and a woman who just might be her mother.

Following their marriage, Claidi and Argul are drawn back to her birthplace, the House, where yet again they are led to seek the answer to the riddle of Ustareth.

When a stranger is captured by the Guards of the House and Garden where she has worked all her life as a slave and maid, sixteen-year-old Claidi helps him escape and sets out with him to journey to his home city through the dangerous Waste.

Artemesia, having escaped the hangman's noose and married her true love, finds life ashore a bit boring after her adventures as a pirate queen, and does not hesitate when the government of England, at war with France and Spain, offers her a ship in exchange for her service in harassing the enemy.

Claidi, kidnapped on the day of her wedding by guards from Wolf Tower, is taken to a strange palace with mechanical servants and rooms that move, but she is able to win the trust of palace keeper Prince Venn, and together they plan her escape. Presented in the form of journal entries.

When a stranger is captured by the Guards of the House and Garden where she has worked all her life as a slave and maid, sixteen-year-old Claidi helps him escape and sets out with him to journey to his home city through the dangerous Waste.

Following their marriage, Claidi and Argul are drawn back to her birthplace, the House, where yet again they are led to seek the answer to the riddle of Ustareth.

The third volume in the Claidi Journals trilogy finds the heroine on a quest to find her beloved Argul who believes she willingly abandoned him on their wedding day--a journey that brings her to the Raven Tower and a woman who just might be her mother.