The Silver Branch (The Tales of Aeron, #3)

About this book

In this novel of Patricia Kennealy's galaxy-spinning mythos of the Keltic race, she draws us back to an earlier age, just prior to the setting of The Copper Crownand The Throne of Scone--a time of transition when the people of the Keltic worlds have not yet reestablished contact with their distant brethren of Earth. In this era, the enemies of the Keltic worlds are already beginning to dream of destroying this mighty space empire hidden behind its seemingly impenetrable magic-fueled Curtain Wall. And chief among these foes of Keltia is Bres, lord of Fomor, who, betrayed by his own queen, has sworn an eternal vow of vengeance. Yet it will be many long years before Bres can hope to carry out his threats, years of uneasy peace during which Aeron Aoibhell, heir to the throne of Keltia, will grow to adulthood and to the fulfillment of her prophesied powers of sorcery--powers which will change the destinies of friends and foes alike when war finally explodes across the starways. The Silver Branchis Aeron's tale--from the events long before her birth, which would shape the worlds and the burden she would inherit...to her first discovery of the magic that could move the very sun from its path...to the dangerous rites of passage that would make her sorcerer, warrior, avenger, and ultimately queen. It is a recounting of forbidden passion and of honor betrayed, of jealousies that will plant the seeds of future treachery, of love and loyalty tested to the very limits of the great Abyss.