The Sword

Deborah Chester

Book 1 of Sword, Ring and Chalice

Language: English

Publisher: Ace Books

Published: Feb 2, 2000

Description:

The Sword, the Ring and the Chalice: The Sword by Deborah Chester

As the final confrontation with the darkness approaches, two mortal enemies will search for the key to life itself...

The half-elven Dain, now recognized as the long-lost heir to the kingdom of Nether, prepares to fight for his throne. Suddenly his love, Princess Pheresa, is struck down by poison meant for him.

Now, Dain and his hated rival, Prince Gavril, must undertake a perilous quest to find the one thing that can save herthe Chalice of Eternal Life, the powerful relic that Dain's own father lost his life trying to hide from mortal hands.

It will be a journey shadowed by treachery and deathas Dain confronts old enemies, and finds an important new ally in the rebel leader Alexieka...