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Even in the haven of the mighty city of Tajmengus, in the home of his conjurer cousin Yeni, Iskiir could not forget his nightmare past. never could he escape the horrible sight of those huge black monoliths magically stalking forth to crush his home village. He had tried to warn others of this spell of evil walking the land, yet no one would listen, not even his true love, Adeh.

But now his nightmares lived again. The stones had come to Tajmengus! And, as even the first rank sorcerers failed to halt their deadly march, Iskiir knew that only he - who had once survived this crushing doom - could answer the riddle of the stones, and stop the evil that stood behind them...

On a series of enormous mountain ranges beneath peak-of-the-world, Yarkol Dolmi works to help his tribe across a poisonous volcanic landscape until he becomes afflicted with an illness that changes his role with the tribe...

The Brights were the eyes of the Gods, watching over the people of Safehold...

The founders of Safehold had planned carefully for the planet's future. They had engineered the perfect people to face the alien threat. They had designed the perfect society to keep the people from forbidden mysteries. They had cloaked their plan in religion to preserve its hidden purpose. And then they had removed the remnants of their own imperfect presence from the face of their painstakingly ordered world... selecting only a carefully chosen few to circle the planet in observation stations and hold themselves in readiness against the time when man's insidious, ancient enemy should challenge this last outpost of humankind.

They had planned carefully and well, but never dreamed that mankind's fate would rest on only three people - an aging cyborg, a courageous rebel, and a danger-loving young woman, one of Safehold's most beautiful and rebellious...

Swimmers Beneath the Bright.

A tired old man and a brash young girl...he was the Vigen of Darst and she is his apprentice, Kyala, the first female ever chosen to learn the magic power of glassmaking.

Into the mountains of Winterkill they went, seeking the rare pigment astablak to protect the people of Darst from the revening Lame Ones, who stalked the forests with clawed feet and burning eyes.

The way was long and treacherous, through the terrible crags and beyond to the mysterious town of Vanikval, where a renegade glassmaker held the people under his dread command.

There began a contest that shook the foundations of their world. Good against evil, man against beast, it would determine who were the true...Masters of Glass.

The Eyes of Death

Beads of magic...wit ha color that can steal your soul...Only the Vigens, the Masters of Glass, could look into the eyes of men and beasts and then make the unique talismans that could control their lives.

That was why Kyala, Mistress of Glass, joined the desperate scheme to slay the monsters sent by the sea god Etma. For if she could see the horror's eyes, then she could forge the true bead that would tame the beast forever. Yet when the demon rose to destroy its foolish human challengers, all of Kyala's nightmares were fulfilled. Never had she seen such eyes before, burning with the fires of doom. And even with all her skill, Kyala feared it was not in her power to conquer a creature from the depths of hell...