The Twisted Citadel by Sara Douglass

The Twisted Citadel by Sara Douglass

Tencendor is no more. The land is gone. But a few SunSoars remain, and a new foe walks the world.

In a time of magic and danger, three new heroes have stepped forward--Ishbel Brunelle, priestess of the Serpent Coil; Isaiah, the Tyrant of Isembaard; and Maximilian, the Lord of Elcho Falling. Yet despite their best efforts, the Dark God Kanubai has risen. And worse yet, war approaches--backed by the evil, insidious DarkGlass Mountain, hordes of insatiable Skraelings ravage the land.

While the trio struggles to keep its armies and alliances alive, the SunSoars have their own challenges, including the chance to rejoin the magical Star Dance at long last, and the appearance of the Lealfast, long-lost kin to the Icarii. The Lealfast and the Icarii may be friends . . . or deadly enemies. And as tensions rise between the two races, Axis SunSoar revives his elite Strike Force in a desperate bid to stop the darkness.

Sara Douglass was born in 1957 in Penola, a tiny farming town in Australia's south. Before her parents relocated her to Adelaide and the more refined surroundings of Methodist Women College, she spent her early years chasing (and being chased by) sheep and collecting snakes. Sara went on to become a nurse at her parents' insistence (it was both feminine and genteel) and spent the next seventeen years plotting and executing her escape. Her escape came in the shape of a Ph.D. in the history of early modern England Sara left nursing after a long period of bare tolerance and accepted a post as a senior lecturer in medieval European history at the Victorian University of La Trobe's Bendigo campus.

Sara sought an escape from the departmental politics of academic life, which she found as insufferable as the emotional rigors of nursing. This came in the shape of one of Sara's early loves: books and writing. Sara's novel BattleAxe (released in North America as The Wayfarer Redemption), the first in the Tencendor series, was picked up by HarperCollins Australia and chosen as the first book in their new fantasy line, which was met with rapid success. Sara has risen to become Australia's premier fantasy author and one of the country's top writers since 1995. Her books are now available in over 100 countries.