The Tower on the Rift

Volume 2 of The View from the Mirror

In the second volume of this stunning and original saga, Ian Irvine continues The View from the Mirror, a brilliant epic fantasy that rivals the works of Robert Jordan and J. V. Jones.

THE TALE OF THE DRY SEA

The ancient city of Thurkad has fallen, and all who gathered there for the Great Conclave are scattered. Driven mad, the young sensitive Karan is left for dead. Her lover, Llian the Chronicler, is captured by the renegade Aachim, who plan to use the Twisted Mirror for an act of millennial vengeance. The great mancers, including Magister Mendark, flee, die, or are rendered powerless, and even the conquering sorcerer Yggur is threatened by a growing fear of what is to come. For the path of all heroes and villains will meet in the cursed desert called the Dry Sea. And there, in a lost fortress of power, terrible forbidden magics will merge with desperation and folly, and unleash forces that can shatter the destiny of worlds...

PURSUERS OF THE PROSCRIBED

Llian of the Zain: He lives to make the past come alive, but now the ancient hatreds from that past may destroy him...

Karan of Gothryme: Daughter of three worlds, her birthright can lead to incredible powers, or an eternal darkness of the mind...

Shand: For the sake of Llian and Karan, the reclusive hermit must return to acquaintances and a war he walked away from centuries before...

Tensor of the Aachim: His leadership caused his people's destruction, his quest for revenge may cause their genocide...

Lilis: This waif from the street is a tiny bundle of courage, valor, and fury...

Mendark: Usurped and driven into hiding, this ancient mancer plots to rekindle the inner fires that once made him the world's most powerful-and feared-ruler...

THE VIEW FROM THE MIRROR QUARTET
Volume 1
A Shadow on the Glass
Volume 2
The Tower on the Rift
Volume 3
Dark Is the Moon
Available in July 2002
Volume 4
The Way Between the Worlds
Available in January 2003