The Isle of Glass
Author: Judith Tarr
Alfred of St. Ruan’s has lived his life in the seclusion of the monastery. But a badly wounded knight on a mission from the Elvenking, a beautiful and mysterious stranger who walks as both woman and beast, and a warrior king call him out of the cloister’s walls into the wars and storms of the world. For he is neither mortal nor human, though he has long tried to live as bo….Read More
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