Ritnym's Daughter — Sheila Gilluly

WHEN SHADOWS STALK

It should have been a time of jubilation in the realm of IUyria at the Greenbriar court. For the Lordling, Prince Gerrit, had come of age and the folk of many lands were gathering to celebrate. But others, too, were gathering -- Shadows, servants of the Dark Lord who fed upon the blood of innocent children and brought the freezing death to humans, dwarves, and Littlefolk alike.

It was at the court of Ariadne, the Greenbriar Queen, that the first devastating blow was struck when her Crystal of Healing was stolen by the Dark Her power of Healing lost with the final battle scarcely begun, Ariadne, Gerrit, and their loyal allies must search desperately for some other weapon to wield against Shadows and Dark And their only hope rested in a riddle as ancient as time a riddle no one had ever been able to solve....