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"A fascinating fantasy romance"
Reviewed by Kelley Hartsell
Courtesy Love Romances
Posted November 27, 2004
This was a fascinating fantasy romance by the talented
Karen McCullough that will carry readers away into another
world where dragons live and wizards dream.
Alsa feels the stirrings of wizardry within her and makes a
desperate bargain with a reclusive wizard to expand them.
She needs to learn to use Read more...
"beautiful retelling of the classic Beauty and the Beast"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted February 1, 2005
Her village is in trouble from hostile neighbors so Alsa,
who has elementary wizardry skills, decides she must save
her town. However, though she has latent talent she has
no training to focus her flair. Alsa knows her only hope
for mentoring comes from the nearby wizard, who Read more...
(An expanded version of the e-book "The Rainbow Bridge"
published by Dreams Unlimited.)
SummaryWhen invasion by a coalition of unfriendly neighbors
threatens her home town, Alsa knows the seed of their
salvation lies within her. But her talent for wizardry
won't help them unless she can learn how to use and control
it, so she goes to the local wizard, who lives in a castle
high on the side of a mountain. To reach his home, she
must brave a bridge that appears to be made solely of light
and the wizard's ferocious guard dragon.
Neither the bridge nor the dragon is exactly what it seems.
But then Alsa finds that a lot of things on the wizard's
mountain are not what she expects, including the wizard
himself. The bargain she has to make with him to get the
lessons she needs shocks her, and the training itself bears
no resemblance to what she anticipated. Alsa has a lot of
adapting to do and not much time for it.
It will take every bit of her intelligence, courage and
compassion to master the magic, her home's enemies, the
dragon, and even the wizard himself.
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