Harbingers (Wiseman)

Minstrel? Spy? Witch? What is Mirin, really? She's a young girl. She's a boy. She loves her sister. She loves a man. What is she, and more important, who is she? The gods have given her a task, to save a realm, to save a queen. In a brutal world where the young are forced to grow up fast, Mirin's story is about coming of age too soon, about love and betrayal. It's about the heavy costs of standing for a cause but standing for it anyway because it is the right. About finding the lost and finding yourself along the way. Book I of the Harbingers fantasy series.

Mirin had let herself believe she'd never need her dagger again. Just be what she seemed, a mild-mannered young wife. But when everything is taken from her--the man she loves, the quiet life she's worked for, her child, her very identity--she knows she has to fight for what's hers, with the weapons she knows best: The mysterious power of her music. The aid of the fisher bird, the bird called halcyon, harbinger of her god. And her dagger. Book Two of the Harbingers fantasy series. Can be read stand-alone.

Keera has revenge in mind, and boundless confidence. After all, her magic powers are second to none. With outrage, she finds her powers stripped away from her. When she finds she must fight her battle with only her wits and her grit, how can she possibly prevail? She is young and has no war-skills. But the girl has friends: an old mage who helps her, a young man with a twinkle in his eye who can't get her out of his mind-and a ghost. Book III of the Harbingers fantasy series. Can be read as a stand-alone novel.

One for sorrow. . .two for mirth. . .three for death. . .four for birth. . .five for silver. . .six for gold. . .seven for secrets never told. The true journey is the journey to the human heart. In a fantasy world at war, Keera and Gwyl voyage across the Great Sea to forge a new life for themselves. Their journey of discovery points them down a mighty river into the deep interior of an unknown continent. where the conflicts of the old lands follow them to the new. Always the owls lead them on.

This Harbingers Omnibus edition includes all four volumes in the Harbingers fantasy series: Blackbird Rising, Halcyon, Firebird, and Ghost Bird. The first two books in the series (Mirin's Saga) follow the young minstrel Mirin as she struggles to survive in a dangerous world where assassination, rebellion, and civil war have destroyed everything she has ever known. The next two books (Keera's Saga) follow the journey of Mirin's daughter Keera as she sets out to avenge her parents. Her quest takes her to the Unknown Lands across the Great Sea to the west. This epic fantasy series takes place in an alt-medieval Europe, ending up in the alt-Viking Age Americas. Not for young teens.