num_pages: 398
description: Milla Vane returns to a world of kings magic and passion in her exhilarating A Gathering of Dragons series as a great alliance forms to stand against an evil warlord intent on their destruction.Danger lurks in the western realms. The Destroyers imminent return has sent the realms into turmoil as desperate citizens seek refugebut theres no safety to be found when demons and wraiths crawl out from the shadows. Even Koth a northern island kingdom left untouched by the Destroyer a generation past is besieged by terrors spawned from corrupt magics.When Lizzan leads the Kothan army against these terrors only to see her soldiers massacred and to emerge as the only survivor she is called a coward and a deserter. Shunned from her home Lizzan now wanders in solitude as a mercenary for hire until she encounters a group of warriors seeking new alliances with the northern kingdomsa group that includes Aerax the bastard prince of Koth and the man who sent her into exile.Though they were childhood friends Aerax cannot allow himself to be close to the only woman who might thwart his treacherous plan to save their island realm. But when a goddess's demand binds them together Lizzan and Aerax must find a way to overcome their painful pasts. Or there will be no future for the western realms...
language: English
title: A Touch of Stone and Snow
publisher: Berkley