Year of The Unicorn Author:Andre Norton YEAR OF THE UNICORN — Taken from their families in the Year of the Unicorn, the thirteen were the payment to settle the Great Bargain by which the Hounds of Alizon were finally beaten from High Halleck with the aid of the Were-Riders. — The Were-Riders wore the bodies of men, but they were not human-kind, and the price of their alliance was thirte... more »en beautiful maids of High Halleck to be taken as brides to the unknown.
Gillan, one of the thirteen brides, was destined to see beyond the illusion and mist that cloaked the shapes of the nomadic Were-Riders, and view the lost powers, the forgotten world, and the ancient challenege that threatened them all.« less