L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

Chapter I Two ofíicers sat side by side in the cramped command couches of the RSFS Fergus as the light cruiser accelerated away from the Galway system. The younger officer, a darkhaired woman with blue eyes and pale white skin, wore the double silver bars of a first lieutenant on the collar of her...

I Can you see how the pieces fit together? Not just the visible ones, like the towers of the sunset, but those unseen, like the heart of a man or the soul of a wizard. Not that you will believe. Patterns work that way, for each individual is captured by her patterns, even as she must reconcile...