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Annettenet Day Mcbowen doesn't have a lot going for her. She is 17 with no father to be seen, a new school, a new house, and no friends. She takes comfort in a field she found with her instrument the harp which isn't even ordinary and to make it even more strange her music turns out to be a gate to many portals good and bad. To help guide her apparently is a beautiful fairy with a very bad attitude and an intriguing demon with British charm. Also it seems that many people from the past want to pop up just now. What the hell is she going to do?
In the land of Maldos, the birth of the fraternal twins Bernum and Malkia was considered as a sign of perfection. Perfectly balanced. Yin and yang. But the birth of their deformed younger brother, Dennik, and the death of their mother was considered the ultimate of curses and the child was regarded as a demon by all except for his father, brother, and sister. The twins vow to learn magic to find a cure for Dennik--but in Maldos the equality of yin and yang is a facade. Only boys are allowed to openly study magic--so while Bernum goes off to the magic school Malkia must secretly study under a witch posing as a midwife. All goes well until Malkia's letters cease--and Bernum must find out what has happend to her. For what can harm a witch can just as easily harm a magician.
Ranyk doesn't mind so much being attacked in space, but forty thousand colonists are waiting on him. Waiting for the haven of a newly terraformed planet. Ranyk is about to discover one starship of pirates is a mild beginning.
The first of a trilogy, Houses of Common contains the scientific rigor of Kathy Reichs and deep characters and moral dilemmas of Orson Scott Card.
Annettenet Day Mcbowen doesn't have a lot going for her. She is 17 with no father to be seen, a new school, a new house, and no friends. She takes comfort in a field she found with her instrument the harp which isn't even ordinary and to make it even more strange her music turns out to be a gate to many portals good and bad. To help guide her apparently is a beautiful fairy with a very bad attitude and an intriguing demon with British charm. Also it seems that many people from the past want to pop up just now. What the hell is she going to do?
In the land of Maldos, the birth of the fraternal twins Bernum and Malkia was considered as a sign of perfection. Perfectly balanced. Yin and yang. But the birth of their deformed younger brother, Dennik, and the death of their mother was considered the ultimate of curses and the child was regarded as a demon by all except for his father, brother, and sister. The twins vow to learn magic to find a cure for Dennik--but in Maldos the equality of yin and yang is a facade. Only boys are allowed to openly study magic--so while Bernum goes off to the magic school Malkia must secretly study under a witch posing as a midwife. All goes well until Malkia's letters cease--and Bernum must find out what has happend to her. For what can harm a witch can just as easily harm a magician.
Ranyk doesn't mind so much being attacked in space, but forty thousand colonists are waiting on him. Waiting for the haven of a newly terraformed planet. Ranyk is about to discover one starship of pirates is a mild beginning.
The first of a trilogy, Houses of Common contains the scientific rigor of Kathy Reichs and deep characters and moral dilemmas of Orson Scott Card.