THE PERILOUS SPELL

Evil times had come for the Deryni, the humans with strange, magical powers.  The Regents of the boy-king Alroy sought the destruction of all that race.  And now Bishop Mister Cullen was dead, depriving Deryni of their greatest friend, for that was the body that Camber of Culdi had worn for twelve long years.

But neither Camber's daughter Evaine nor his son Father Joram could be sure.  Camber's body lay unchanged and incorruptible.  Was it a sign that he had worked a final spell to hold off death?  Or had Camber really become a saint?

Whatever was true, the effort to save the Deryni had to continue.  There was a way - dangerous and uncertain - to remove the Deryni powers from many so that they could pass as merely human, to scatter into anonymity and survive.

While that great effort went forward, Evaine pursued the most perilous quest of all - to find among ancient forbidden scrolls the spell that might release Camber.  The price to fail - or to succeed - was unthinkable.  But Evaine was prepared to pay it.

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The Princess in
the Tower

The power-hungry former Regents of the three Haldane princes were pleased.  They controlled Gwynedd once more, now that Rhys Michael was king - malleable, wine-loving, and soft.  Or so they thought...

Unbeknownst to the Regents, Rhys Michael was coming into his birthright.  With secret Deryni aid, he struggled to grasp the magic bequeathed to all anointed kings.  And when Marek - heir to Gwynedd's last degenerate deposed Deryni despots - marched into Gwynedd at the head of an army, even the Regents had to admit that Rhys Michael must take to the field himself as king to repel the pretender.

Rhys Michael saw his chance at last.  He swore that the power of the throne - from now on and for all time to come - was to be held by Gwynedd's rightful king.  For this, for his sons, and for his country, the king would risk all...

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