Ship of Magic

Wizardwood, a sentient wood.<br />The most precious commodity in the world.<br />Like many other legendary wares, it comes only from the Rain River Wilds.<br /><br />But how can one trade with the Rain Wilders, when only a liveship fashioned from wizardwood can negotiate the perilous waters of the Rain River? Rare and valuable a liveship will quicken only when three members, from successive generations, have died on board. The liveship <i>Vivacia</i> is about to undergo her quickening as Althea Vestrit’s father is carried on deck in his death-throes. Althea waits for the ship that she loves more than anything else in the world to awaken. Only to discover that the <i>Vivacia</i> has been signed away in her father’s will to her brutal brother-in-law, Kyle Haven...<br /><br />Others plot to win or steal a liveship. The <i>Paragon</i>, known by many as the <i>Pariah</i>, went mad, turned turtle, and drowned his crew. Now he lies blind, lonely, and broken on a deserted beach. But greedy men have designs to restore him, to sail the waters of the Rain Wild River once more.<br /><br />Cover illustration by John Howe<br /><br />