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Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Crowthistle Chronicles
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y separately published work icon The Iron Tree Cecilia Dart-Thornton , Sydney : Tor , 2004 Z1160140 2004 single work novel fantasy

'While on a journey to discover more about his mysterious antecedents, Jarred, the book's handsome hero, meets the beauteous Lilith, who's cursed by "a malediction of the bloodline" that dooms one spouse of a pair to an early death while the other is "driven mad by some delusion of being followed." She cares for Jarred too much to wed and hurt him and their offspring. Jarred adds a second familial quest to his first in order to thwart the curse, and the lovers are soon involved in years of convoluted if fairly convincing adventures'.

Source: bookseller's website.

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y separately published work icon The Well of Tears Cecilia Dart-Thornton , Sydney : Tor , 2005 Z1220442 2005 single work novel fantasy 'The beautiful maiden Jewel is the center of her parent's joy. She is the embodiment of their true love and she has grown up surrounded by peace and love in abundance. Jewel's world cruelly shatters when her parents are suddenly killed and she and her uncle Eoin are forced to flee. Leaving the only home she has ever known, Jewel learns that her parents, caught in a tangle of a tragic prophecy, had hidden in the marshland for years to protect the secret knowledge that Jewel is the last of the line of the Janus Jaravhor, the dreaded sorcerer of Strang. That she might be the one person in the world who could unlock the mysterious Dome that is told to hold all of Janus’s secrets. And that King Maolmordha now knows of her existence and will stop at nothing to find her. Pain and loss follow and Jewel must make her way alone. Rescued by a traveling band of Weathermasters, exalted magicians who control the heavens for the rich and powerful, she is taken to High Darioneth and is accepted into this tightly knit community. And not just accepted, but loved, for one of the young weathermasters beheld her and his heart was lost. Jewel is left with the promise of true love and a powerful secret. But which path will she choose—and who will suffer if she makes the wrong choice?' Source: publisher's website (http://us.macmillan.com/default.aspx). Sighted 21/2/11.
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y separately published work icon Weather Witch Cecilia Dart-Thornton , Sydney : Tor , 2006 Z1317553 2006 single work novel fantasy Asrathiel, once Astariel, grand daughter of the Stormlord of Ellenhall, has come of age and received her title of weathermage. As she sets out into the world, her happiness is marred only by her inability to wake her mother from the enchanted sleep that holds her captive, and by curious visits from a perverse yet intriguing faerie-creature. But rumblings of discontent have begun to circulate in the Four Kingdoms of Tir: the bandits known as the Marauders are attacking the populace with greater frequency, and taxes are being raised to fund the defence against them. Then the people begin, seemingly unprovoked, to turn against the weathermasters, whom they have always held in such high esteem. (Publisher's blurb).
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y separately published work icon Fallow Blade Fallowblade Cecilia Dart-Thornton , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2007 Z1437907 2007 single work novel fantasy

'A beautiful Lord of Wickedness, with hair as black as iniquity, is about to shatter the life of the weathermage Asrathiel. Of this she has no notion as she prepares for battle against a tyrant who plans to seize dominion over the Four Kingdoms.

'The invading armies are pushing further north and it seems that all is lost... until a new peril unexpectedly looms; a far more dangerous and deadly menace that threatens not merely the balance of power, but the entire human race. It seems their only hope lies with the golden sword Fallowblade, and only Asrathiel can wield that weapon. But what of this stranger, this perilous eldritch warrior, whose beauty outshines the night...?' (Publisher's blurb)

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First known date: 2004
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Works about this Work

Untitled Kate Forsyth , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction , no. 40 2007; (p. 112-114)
— Review of Crowthistle Chronicles Cecilia Dart-Thornton , 2004 series - author novel
Untitled Kate Forsyth , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction , no. 40 2007; (p. 112-114)
— Review of Crowthistle Chronicles Cecilia Dart-Thornton , 2004 series - author novel
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