The Deceiver — Louise Cooper

THE SHATTERING SAGA BEGUN IN THE TIME MASTER TRILOGY CONTINUES

With his dying breath, Keridil Toln, High Initiate of the mystic brotherhood known as the Circle, warned his colleagues of a danger beyond their imagining. For a servant of Chaos had engendered a child--a human girl whom he trained in the arts of darkness to strike at the heart of the Circle and spread his evil upon the earth. Only Karuth, adept and sister of Tirand, the headstrong youth who has become the new High Initiate, realizes the nature of the danger. But her warnings may come too late. For the demon has stolen the soul-stone of one of the seven Lords of Chaos, leaving him a mindless shell. Now there is nothing that can stand in the way of the demon's reign of terror.