The Silver Lake by Fiona Patton

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From Fiona Patton, author of the Branion Realm saga (The Stone Prince, The Painter Knight, et al.), comes the first volume of an exciting fantasy series about a City of the Gods and the immortal patrons that protect it.

Anavatan is a sprawling, majestic city saturated with powerful magic. Located on the shores of Gol-Beyaz -- a silver lake whose wild energies gave birth to and sustain six beloved deities -- Anavatan is protected from invaders and rogue spirits by the God-Wall, an invisible boundary that surrounds the city and its outlying villages. But once a year, during the chaotic festivities of Havo's Dance, spirits from the wild lands try to breach the wall to feast on the life energies of the lake and the city's unsworn inhabitants. Usually the tens of thousands of warriors of Estavia -- the ebony-skinned Goddess of Battles -- dispatch the spirits in short order; but when a duo of unsworn street urchins are attacked by the unusually ravenous spirits and saved by Estavia herself, all the Oracles of the city know that world-altering events are afoot. As Brax and Spar come to grips with their new destinies, so too does another street orphan…. When Incasa, the God of Prophecy, rolls his dice, will it be Creation or Destruction? Or both?

Breakneck-paced, vividly described, and thoroughly captivating, The Silver Lake is easily Patton's best work to date. A masterwork of imagination, this is epic fantasy at its very best. Paul Goat Allen

From the Publisher

In Anavatan, the city of the Silver Lake, where the gods frequently manifest, it's hard to survive if you're not pledged to a deity. When the three-night chaos of Havo's Dance sweeps through the city, the unaffiliated had best find good places to hide-or risk madness and death out on the streets.

But during this year's Dance, street orphans Spar and Brax will discover their destinies: one when he is marked as the future Champion of the War God, and the other as he learns to master his talent as a seer. And their enemy Graize will be cast forth from the city and claimed by hungry spirits-spirits who seek a way into Anatavan and the power of the Silver Lake.

Library Journal

Nestled on the shore of Gol-Beyaz, the Silver Lake, the enchanted city of Anavatan, where the gods make their homes, enjoys the protection of a wall of magic that keeps out human invaders and hungry spirits. During the annual revelry of Havo's Dance, Incasa, the God of Prophecy, chooses three young men from among the thieves, con artists, and others unsworn to any god and sets them apart for a special destiny. The events that unite and divide friends Brax and Spar and their mutual enemy Graize form the heart of a prophecy that will change the world. Patton, author of the "Branion Realm" novels (The Stone Prince; The Painter Knight; The Granite Shield; The Golden Sword) begins a new series set in an exotic world reminiscent of medieval Turkey. This fluidly paced fantasy adventure belongs in most libraries. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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