The Rescue of Ranor — Wilanne S. Belden

Minna, a White Witch who had learned just enough to set up on her own, was not interested in being a witch. She just wanted to be left alone. And she thought she had herself nicely situated in a place where no one would find her. But someone did. His name was Sven Pentalion, and although he was a member of a highly renowned magic family, he had no magic of his own. In fact he was a Non, which meant that he could not be affected by Magic at all. Yet only he and Minna could rescue his thoughless, selfish brother Ranor from the clutches of a Black Enchanter. Minna did not want to undertake the task, buy by the laws of witchcraft she had to. So she transformed her goblin/demon familiar, Ordure, into a horse and they all set out for Cottsob, where they would fight in a combat circle for the possession of Ranor. But first they had to get to Cottsob. It was on the way, as they took part in some very funny and very revealing adventures, that Minna began to learn some things about herself that wre so strange and so frighteneing and at the same time so amazing, she actually began to have some hope that she might live through the ordeal. It was not until the actual combat--a duel to the death--however, that all of the truth of her past came to light, and she and Sven and even Ordure realized how necesary they were to each other.