The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

Dark Fantasy Horror

Author: Patricia A. McKillip

Sybel, the beautiful great-granddaughter of the wizard Heald, has grown up on Eld Mountain with only the fantastic beasts summoned there by wizardry as companions. She cares nothing for humans until, when she is sixteen, a baby is brought for her to raise, a baby who awakens emotions that she has never known before. He is Tamlorn, the only son of King Drede, and, inevitabl….Read More

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