Series: The Warlocks of Talverdin Volume: 1 Genre: Fantasy ISBN: 9781551434810 Pages: 196 pages Publisher: Orca Book Publishers Price: $8.95 Reader Rating: Not rated
Nightwalker: The Warlocks of Talverdin by K.V. Johansen
Description: Winner of the 2008 Ann Connor Brimer Award
Selected by Voya for their annual list of the Year's Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror -VOYA April 2007
Selected by the Ontario Library Association for their Best Bets top ten list for 2007
Maurey has always been persecuted for the colour of his skin and eyes. He has never known more about his parents than that his mother died the day he was born. When the king's chancellor discovers that Maurey possesses a ring belonging to the missing queen and another that may be the key to finding the hidden kingdom of the inhuman warlocks of Talverdin, he is imprisoned, revealed as a Nightwalker, and sentenced to execution in philosopher's fire. Rescued by a young baroness with her own reasons for fearing the chancellor, Maurey sets out on a dangerous journey to the land of his father's people. If he and Annot are to survive and prevent the destruction of the last refuge of the Nightwalkers, Maurey will have to call on human and inhuman skills he never knew he possessed, and win the trust of both sides of his family.