"The need is real," Geraden said.  "And it's urgent, my lady.  Somewhere in the realm there are renegade Imagers, Masters of mirrors, and they're opening their glasses more and more to every kind of horror and foulness.

"I don't have any power to compel you.  If I did, it would be wrong to use it.  And you aren't the Champion the Congery expects.  But I might be right.  You understand mirrors.  You might be the help we need.

"Please.  Will you come with me?"

Terisa Morgan had no idea what to make of all this.  She had been preparing to spend another evening alone in her apartment when, without warning, he appeared in the mirror.  Not as a reflection - he was in the mirror.  At once the glass shattered soundlessly, and then a young man calling himself Geraden lay on the floor in her living room.  To her astonishment, he began babbling a story about "Mordant's need" - a strange kingdom in dire trouble.  He wanted her to return with him to save his world from destruction.

She didn't understand what he was talking about.  She was only a mission secretary - not the sort of woman who saved worlds.  Yet his eyes were so full of light and laughter, appeals and promises, that she accepted his invitation... and thereby changed her life forever.

THE MIRROR OF HER DREAMS is the story of Terisa and Geraden in the strange land called Mordant.  It is a rich and finely textured novel of love and lust, power and court politics, in a place where nothing is ever what is seems... and reality intertwines with powerfully seductive illusion.

THE MIRROR OF HER DREAMS is the new novel by Stephen R. Donaldson.  It is a shining example of his gift as a master story teller, a gift that mesmerized millions in the bestselling Chronicles of Thomas Covenant... a gift that will continue to enchant everyone for years to come.

Born in 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio, Stephen R. Donaldson made his publishing debut with the first Thomas Covenant Trilogy in 1977.  Shortly thereafter, he was named Best New Writer of the Year and given the prestigious John W. Campbell Award.  He graduated from the College of Wooster (Ohio) in 1968, served two years as a conscientious objector doing hospital work in Akron, then attended Kent State University, where he received his M.A. in English in 1971.  Donaldson now lives in New Mexico.

Someone will stop you," she said as if she were acustomed to defiance.  "If Geraden doesn't do it, I will.  You're going to be stopped."

"Geraden?" spat Gilbur.  "You?  How are you going to stop me?"

How?

Like this.

She didn't need to say it aloud.  He was still bearing down on her with his bloody hands when he seemed to run into a wall.  Surprise wiped the violence from his face: his eyes sprang wide as he saw what was happening to the mirror behind her.

She didn't look.  The last time she had done this, she had done it entirely by accident, without knowing what she was doing; she didn't try to coerce it now.  IN any case, at the moment she didn't care whether she lived or died.  She only cared about escape.

Still astonished, but recovering his wits, Master Gilbur reached for her.

Gently, Terisa closed her eyes and drifted backward into the dark.

Terisa Morgan despoerately needed to escape.  Gilbur was trying to kill her, Castellan Lebbick wanted to torture her, and she needed to find Graden.  Orison was being attacked by the Alend army poised at the gates... Eremis, the traitor, was working with Gilbur in league with the hated Cadwals and the Arch-Imager Vagel... King Joyse's actions could not be explained.

Everything that Geaden loved was about to be destroyed - unless the two of them could find a way to prevent it by using the talent for mirrors and Imagery that Terisa now ken they both possesed... a talent that made them extremely powerful and extremely dangerous to Eremis.  And Terisa knew that Eremis would use all tghe evil means at his disposal to insure the success of his master plan, which meant that the kingdom would be lost and she and Geraden would surely die.

A MAN RIDES THROUGH is the stunning conclusion in the compeling saga that began with THE MIRROR OF HER DREAMS.  It is a thrilling, action-packed, and complex novel that will delight readers everywhere... and reaffirm Stephen R. Donaldson position as the foremost practicioner of the epic fantasy form in the world today.