Snow had gathered upon the crowns of two pale blond heads.

“Maybe,” I said at last, “it’s simply one of those very, very, very strange, weird, utterly inexplicable, impossible-to-believe things that actually are real. “It’s snowing!” he exclaimed, nearly upon us.Īnd so the three of us, having established that it was indeed snowing, stood there together looking out onto the whitened world and into the gray, shedding skies, and discussed reasons and causes. “This is impossible.”Īnd then we heard a call, turned as one, and saw Alric walking toward us from his own house. She squinted and blinked as flakes landed in her eyes, then lowered her startled gaze to me. You grew up in the North where it does this kind of thing all the time.”ĭel stepped out into the morning as I moved aside. “It is, isn’t it? I mean, you should know. I turned to face her and found a question. I mean, how often, in dreams, do you pee?Īnd then Del stepped into the doorway behind me and said in shock akin to my own, “It’s snowing!” But a review of my actions upon climbing out of bed assured me I was not. The east side of Alric’s and Lena’s four-room house, facing me, was snow-furred. Oh, structures still showed dark against the pallor of the morning, but roofs were covered. I stood before my door, completely flummoxed. Maybe two inches.Īnd demonstrably cold when one is barefoot. It doesn’t do that here.įalling out of the sky. It then instantly registered that this was an utter impossibility. In fact, my mind, all on its own, instantly registered what it was. I’d been north across the border, so I knew what snow was. In Del, Tiger finds one of the most intriguing challenges he has ever encountered in this mysterious sword dancer from the North as she asks for his help in crossing the punja, the deadliest part of the desert.When I walked outside to tend morning chores, it was snowing. Del was trained by the greatest of the Northern sword masters and has now headed South to find a younger brother who was stolen five years ago. Tiger won his freedom as a slave after mixing magical with a warrior’s skill becoming a legendary sword dancer. Sword-Dancer is the first book in a series of the same name. This first book introduces Alix, the king’s granddaughter, a half-Homanan half-Cheysuli woman as she seeks to answer an ancient prophecy. Twenty five years later, the remaining Cheysuli became exiles who were hunted. The king turned against them and declared war against them. They had long been allies of the King of Honma until the king’s daughter ran away with a Cheysuli man. The Cheysuli are a race of magical warriors that can shapeshift into animals whenever they like. Shapechangers is the first book in the Chronicles of Cheysuli series. If You Like Jennifer Roberson Books, You’ll Love…

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