Elvenbane

From Grand Masters Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton — the landmark dragon-and-rebellion saga, revised, illustrated, and complete at last.

The elves rule a world where humans are property. The one thing they fear is a child who is not fully human.

For a thousand years the immortal elven lords have bred, collared, drugged, and discarded their human slaves at a whim. They fear revolt — but they fear something else far more: a halfblood child born with gifts no slave should possess. The elves have a name for such children. Wizards.

They hunt them, execute them, erase them, because prophecy whispers that one of them will rise as the Elvenbane.

When Serina Daeth is cast into the desert for carrying her master''s child, she dies giving birth beneath a merciless sun. Her daughter should have died with her. Instead the infant is found by Alara, a dragon shaman who saves the strange little creature on impulse and carries her home to the hidden lairs of the Kin.

Raised among dragons, named Shana, taught to believe she is one of them, the child grows into a girl with impossible gifts, dangerous questions, and a destiny no one fully understands. To the elves she is an abomination. To the dragons she may be a tool, a threat, or the key to remaking the world. And as Shana uncovers the truth of her birth, she is drawn toward a legacy of magic, vengeance, and freedom that could shatter elven rule forever.

Before a world can be freed, one girl must learn what she truly is — and why so many would kill to keep her from becoming it.

An epic of dragon-raised wizards, immortal tyrants, and a long-prophesied rebellion, in the tradition of Anne McCaffrey''s Pern. Elvenbane opens the complete four-book Halfblood Chronicles: newly revised and illustrated, and finished at last with the long-awaited finale.

"One of the season''s liveliest and, most appealing fantasy epics."—Publishers Weekly

"A brisk, glittering yarn that packs as much action, suspense, and twisting of conventions into one novel as many writers invest in whole trilogies."—Amazing Stories

"I came to this book with no expectations, other than to enjoy a book co-written by Mercedes Lackey. To say that I enjoyed it, is to say that a trip to the moon was a mere jaunt."—Goodreads User Review

"A splendid blend of the talents of two excellent storytellers!"—Anne McCaffrey

"The first half of this book is a perfect case study in how ''telling'' versus ''showing'' can be wildly entertaining. The authors took a lot of time to build this world... and I found myself devouring the pages."—Niki Hawkes, The Obsessive Bookseller

"A very entertaining premise."—Tim Scheidler, Fantasy Literature

"An intense fantasy that does not leave out the darkside...acknowledging that only a realm showing both bad and good can truly be fully developed."—ThriftBooks User Review

"An entertaining adventure."—Kirkus Reviews

"If you are in need of some literary chocolate when you’re having a bad day, look no further than the works of Mercedes Lackey. Try at least one of her books and I’ll bet you, like with any good chocolate, you’ll want more!"—Fantasy Literature

"She has been called one of the ''most prolific science fiction and fantasy writers of all time."—Locus Magazine

"She is a superb story-teller with a narrative pace all her own... Norton slowly unfolds a succession of images that first intrigue and finally engulf the reader."—The New York Times Book Review

"A titan in the world o