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Shen Tai is the son of a general who led the forces of imperial Kitai in the empire's last great war against its western enemies, twenty years before. Forty thousand men, on both sides, were slain by a remote mountain lake. General Shen Gao himself has died recently. To honour his father's memory, Tai spends two years in official mourning alone at the battle site, burying the bones of the dead.
One spring morning, he learns that others have taken note of his vigil. The White Jade Princess in Tagur presents him with two hundred and fifty Sardian horses, given in royal recognition of his courage and piety, and the honour he has done the dead: You gave a man one of the famed Sardian horses to reward him greatly. You gave him four or five to exalt him above his fellows and earn him jealousy, possibly mortal. Two hundred and fifty is an unthinkable gift, a gift to overwhelm an emperor.
Tai starts east towards the glittering, dangerous capital of Kitai, and gathers his wits for a return from solitude by a mountain lake to his own forever-altered life.

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The world of Athera lives in eternal fog, its skies obscured by the malevolent Mistwraith. Only the combined powers of two half-brothers can challenge the Mistwraith's stranglehold: Arithon, Master of Shadow and Lysaer, Lord of Light. Arithon and Lysaer will find that they are inescapably bound inside a pattern of events dictated by their own deepest convictions. Yet there is more at stake than one battle with the Mistwraith -- as the sorcerers of the Fellowship of Seven know well. For between them the half-brothers hold the balance of the world, its harmony and its future, in their hands.

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Perfect for teens who love to read and those who need a companion for school assignments or summer reading programs, Read, Remember, Recommend for Teens offers more than 2400 award-winning and notable reading suggestions in many genres, cross-referenced to help parents and teens chose the right books for them.

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