Description
Tobias’s young life is turned upside down when, provoked beyond endurance by his vicious brother, he is forced to retaliate so ferociously that he fears himself a murderer. Fleeing his forbidding fortress home he weeks refuge in the fenland – a mysterious, dark, green country where he has been living a life kept secret from the Family…A life of love not hatred, or companionship not exploitation.
The Old Woman of the fens has been watching over Tobias, protecting him from the wild power of the litchfires that prowl the mist-ridden waterways. For Tobias is the possessor of a magical heritage that makes him an ideal victim for the predatory water-creatures which seek to meld their own wildfire with the strengths of others.
Tobias isn’t the only one with this inheritance, but the rest of the Family use their magic to repress cruelly those who lack any such skill – a way of life that Tobias has rejected, making himself the enemy of his siblings and all their kind.
But he will not be allowed to escape. Though he doesn’t know it, the Family depend on Tobias for their future…
Paperback, First edition, 534 pages. In very good preloved condition with the exception of minor creasing to the top front cover.