By Mercedes Lackey
For so long as she may possibly keep in mind, Marina Roeswood had lived in an outdated, rambling farmhouse in rural Cornwall within the care of shut buddies of her prosperous, aristocratic mom and dad. within the seventeen years that she were fostered through Sebastian and Margherita Tarrant, and Margherita's brother, Thomas Buford, she had lived a nearly idyllic life. because the ward of 3 bohemian artists in turn-of-the-century England, she had grown to be a loose philosopher in an atmosphere of fertile creativity and cultural sophistication. less than their loving inner most tutelage, Marian had realized to learn and translate 5 languages, and used to be as literate as any well-bred girl of her era.
But the true center of her schooling used to be a long way open air societal norms. For she and her foster mom and dad have been Elemental Masters of magic., and studying to regulate her turning out to be powers used to be Marina's fundamental concentration. every one of them commanded the magic of a selected point. Margherita and her brother Thomas have been Earth Masters, Sebastian used to be a hearth grasp, and Marina herself was once a fledgling Water grasp of huge power, with a lesser affinity for the component of Air. Marina enjoyed not anything greater than to sit down via a movement or small waterfall, staring at or communing with the lesser Water Elementals, Undines, and Naiads. while she performed her lute, harp, or flute, she was once occasionally occasion graced by means of the presence of Air Elementals, the Sylphs and Zephyrs whom Sebastian had stated have been her allies, notwithstanding why she may need allies, Marina had no clue.
Actually, there have been numerous mysteries approximately her lifestyles that Marina wasn't in a position to clear up. Why, for instance, had she by no means visible her mom and dad, or been to Oakhurst, her family's ancestral manor in Devon? Her parents guaranteed her fervently, in each letter, that they enjoyed her and longed for her presence, but if her mom and dad enjoyed her rather a lot, why had they despatched her away so younger, and why had they by no means as soon as visited her? And why hadn't her actual mom and dad, who have been additionally Earth Masters, educated her themselves? Why did neither her foster mom and dad nor her genuine mom and dad ever attend the good Circle of Elemental Masters in London? That there has been a mystery approximately all this she had recognized from the time she had started to query the realm round her. but attempt as she may perhaps, she may get no clues out of her guardians and intuition informed her war of words could reason nice ache to her beginning mother.
But Marina could have solutions to her questions all too soon.
For with the unexpected dying of her delivery mom and dad whereas on vacation in Italy, Marina's existence used to be remodeled past all attractiveness. Taken from the one domestic and "parents" she had ever recognized and taken to the chilly and lofty halls of Oakhurst Manor, she met her new mum or dad -- her closest surviving blood relative -- her father's eldest sister Arachne. chilly, aristocratic, and greater, Aunt Arachne used to be an industrialist. Her pottery factories introduced her loads of wealth and gear, yet Marina sensed that Arachne's genuine strength got here from anything some distance diversified than trade. For Arachne exuded a gloomy magical air of mystery in contrast to something Marina had encountered, a stifling evil that appeared to threaten Marina's very spirit. Slowly Marina discovered that her aunt was once the very embodiment of th endanger her mom and dad were hiding her from within the backwoods of Cornwall. yet may well Marina get to the bottom of the secrets and techniques of her existence in time to avoid wasting her from the evil which have been looking her for almost eighteen years?
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Glick; Officer Thomas E. Gorman; Joseph F. Grillo; Ken G. Grouzalis; Patrick A. Hoey; Officer Uhuru G. Houston; Officer George G. Howard; Officer Stephen Huczko; Inspector Anthony P. Infante Jr; Prem N. Jerath; Mary S. Jones; Officer Paul W. Jurgens; Deborah H. Kaplan; Douglas G. Karpiloff; Sergeant Robert M. Kaulfers; Frank Lalama; Officer Paul Laszczynski; Officer David P. Lemagne; Officer John J. Lennon; Officer John D. Levi; govt Director Neil D. Levin; Margaret S. Lewis; Officer James F. Lynch; Robert H. Lynch; Myrna Maldonado; Captain Kathy Mazza; Officer Donald J. McIntyre; Officer Walter A. McNeil; Director/Supt. of Police Fred V. Morrone; Officer Joseph M. Navas; Pete Negron; Officer James Nelson; Officer Alfonse J. Niedermeyer; David Ortiz; Officer James W. Parham; Nancy E. Perez; Officer Dominick A. Pezzulo; Eugene J. Raggio; Officer Bruce A. Reynolds; Francis S. Riccardelli; Officer Antonio J. Rodrigues; Officer Richard Rodriguez; leader James A. Romito; Kalyan okay. Sarkar; Anthony Savas; Officer John P. Skala; Edward T. Strauss; Officer Walwyn W. Stuart; Officer Kenneth F. Tietjen; Lisa L. Trerotola; Officer Nathaniel Webb; Officer Michael T. Wholey. PROLOGUE ALANNA Roeswood entered the parlor together with her child Marina in her hands, and mirrored contentedly that she enjoyed this room higher than the other chamber in Oakhurst Manor. Afternoon sun streamed in throughout the bay home windows, and a sultry breeze carried with it the smell of roses from the backyard. The parlor glowed with hot shades; reds and wealthy browns, the gold of ripening wheat. there have been six viewers, status or sitting, speaking quietly to each other, dressed for a day tea; 3 within the flamboyant, medievally encouraged clothing that marked them as artists. those 3 have been chatting with her husband Hugh; they seemed as though they adequately belonged in a phenomenal portray, no longer Alanna’s comfortable parlor. the rest 3 have been outwardly usual; one girl was once in an up-to-the-mode tea costume that proclaimed wealth and rank, one guy (very a lot a countrified gentleman) wore a go well with with a faintly outdated air approximately it, and the final used to be a tender girl with old eyes whose flowing emerald costume, trimmed in heavy Venice lace just like the foam on a wave, was once of no discernible mode. They smiled at Alanna as she handed them, and nodded greetings. Alanna positioned her boy or girl rigorously in a hand-carved cradle, and seated herself in a chair beside it. one after the other, the artists got here to greet her, bent over the cradle, whispered anything to the sleepy little one, touched her with a gradual finger, and withdrew to renew their conversations. The artists might have been from a similar family members. in reality, they have been from . Sebastian Tarrant, he of the leonine red-brown locks and beneficiant mustache, was once the husband of dark-haired sweet-faced Margherita; the clean-shaven, craggy fellow who her brother via his coloring was once precisely that. All 3 have been Hugh Roeswood’s formative years playmates, and Alanna’s in addition. the remainder have been additionally certain to their hosts via ties of lengthy status.