Shadow Magic (Lyra, Bk 3) Author: Patricia C. Wrede
	Book Information Publisher: Ace Books Book Type: Paperback Rating: 5 ISBN-13: 9780441760145 - ISBN-10: 0441760147 Publication Date: 10/1988 Pages: 256

In Alkyra, children's tales are told of a time long past when humankind shared the land with folk who had magic in their blood and bones: the small, fierce Wyrd of the forests; the proud Shee in their mountain citadel carved of ice-white rock; and the shimmering Neira of the dark sea.
As a child, Alethia had shivered in delicious fright when the bards sang the lays of Alkyra's mythical past. But as a grown woman her nightmares come from the world of human reality: the spreading discontent in a land ruled by querulous noble families, and the soft rumors of war. As a daughter of one of Alkyra's leading families, she has no time now for children's tales. Until she learns that they are all true...