Since they’ve never seen humans before, Xerak, Vereez, and Grunwold think their mentors might be monsters when Meg, Peg, and Teg shimmer into being within the circle of Hettua Shrine. Despite doubts on all sides, the three young inquisitors join forces with their unlikely mentors and begin a search for the Library of the Sapphire Wind, destroyed years before. If they find it, will they also find answers, or is this only the first stage in their search?

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Jane Lindskold
Jane M. Lindskold is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. Jane M. Lindskold was born in 1962, at the Columbia Hospital for Women. She is the first of four siblings. Lindskold's father, John E. Lindskold, was head of the Land and Natural Resources Division, Western Division of the United States Justice Department. Her mother, Barbara DiSalle Lindskold, was also an attorney. Jane M. Lindskold grew up in Washington, D.C. and Chesapeake Bay. She studied at Fordham, where she received a Ph. D. in English, concentrating on Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern British Literature. Lindskold was a superior student and successfully defended her Ph.D. on her 26th birthday. Mentored by her friend, Roger Zelazny, she started publishing stories in 1992, and she published her first novel, Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls in December, 1994. In her Athanor series, she writes about the creatures of legend — shape-shifters, satyrs, merfolk, and unicorns — who have sworn to keep their existence hidden from a human race prone to kill what it does not understand. In her Firekeeper Saga, she writes about a woman who discovers that politics among the wolves she was raised by and politics among human royalty are not so different. Lindskold lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her husband, archaeologist Jim Moore.