The Navigator's ChildrenThe Navigator's Children

The Hayholt has been besieged by the Norns, conquered, and set ablaze, leaving King Simon to make an impossible choice--fighting for his kingdom or escaping with his possessed grandchild, Lillia. Queen Miriamele reaches the Hayholt too, hoping to save the castle and capture the murderer Pasevalles, but the traitor has escaped. Anf even as mortal men and women watch in horror as their capital burns, the Norns' deathless witch-queen Utuk'ku takes her vast army north to attack her own Sithi kin in the mysterious and fateful valley called Tanakirú--the Vale of Mists. King Simon, his granddaughter, and his Sitha friend and ally Jikiri race toward Tanakirú, but although Simon doesn't know it, his grandson Prince Morgan and Nezeru, a renegade Norn warrior, are also headed there. First enemies, then reluctant allies, their liaison has become deeper and stranger than either Morgan or Nezeru could have anticipated. As they finally reach the mysterious valley, the mismatched lovers encounter wonders and horrors they could never have dreamed, and discover the valley's ancient secret--a secret that might destroy immortals and humans alike.