The Fires of Merlin (DIGEST)

by Barron, T. A.

• ISBN13: 9780441009572
• ISBN10: 0441009573
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-25
• Publisher: Ace

Summary

When a powerful dragon reawakens from a deep sleep, Merlin--a descendant of the great sorcerer who originally defeated the creature--is called upon to repeat the feat. Reissue.

Author Biography

T.A. Barron is the award-winning author of fantasy novels such as The Lost Years of Merlin epic—soon to be a major motion picture. He serves on a variety of environmental and educational boards including The Nature Conservancy and The Land and Water Fund of the Rockies, and is the founder of a national award for heroic children. Following a life-changing decision to leave a successful business career to write full-time in 1990, Barron has written seventeen books, but is happiest when on the mountain trails with his wife, Currie, and their five children.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	xi
Prologue	1	(8)
Part One
The Last String	9	(4)
The Root Chord	13	(10)
The Darkest Day	23	(9)
A Distant Chime	32	(6)
Negatus Mysterium	38	(5)
Two Halves of Time	43	(8)
Stone Circle	51	(7)
Circle Stone	58	(3)
Smoke	61	(10)
Part Two
Hunter and Hunted	71	(6)
The Pact	77	(6)
To Circle a Story	83	(7)
To Run Like a Deer	90	(5)
Eremon's Gift	95	(6)
The Meaning in the Tracks	101	(5)
Dreams Yet Unhatched	106	(5)
Powerless	111	(5)
Veil of Mist	116	(6)
The Whirlwind	122	(8)
Ionn	130	(11)
Part Three
The Birth of the Mist	141	(10)
A Chill Wind	151	(8)
Daggerpoint	159	(8)
The Climb	167	(7)
One Voice Out of Many	174	(8)
The End of All Magic	182	(7)
Very Near	189	(7)
Galloping	196	(5)
Battle to the Last	201	(7)
When Elements Merge	208	(7)
A Power Still Higher	215