Geraint is sent from his father's castle to live in a household in which the practices of an ancient heresy have survived into the fifteenth century.
Victoria Strauss is the author of eight fantasy novels for adults and young adults, including the "Way of Arata" duology ("The Burning Land" and "The Awakened City"), and a forthcoming historical fantasy for teens, "Passion Blue." She has written hundreds of book reviews for magazines and ezines, including SF Site, and her articles on writing have appeared in Writer's Digest and elsewhere. In 2006, she served as a judge for the World Fantasy Awards.
An active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), she's Vice-Chair of the Committee on Writing Scams, and co-founder, with Ann Crispin, of Writer Beware, a publishing industry watchdog group that tracks and warns about literary fraud. She maintains the popular Writer Beware website (http://www.writerbeware.com/) and blog (http://www.accrispin.blogspot.com/), and was honored with the SFWA Service Award in 2009.
Visit her at her website: http://www.victoriastrauss.com/
