The stunning historical fantasy series that began with the Nebula finalist Ironskin continues in Tina Connolly’s Silverblind
Eighteen years later...
Dorie Rochart has been hiding
her fey side for a long time. Now, finished with University, she plans
to study magical creatures and plants in the wild, bringing
long-forgotten cures to those in need. But when no one will hire a girl
to fight basilisks, she releases her shape-changing fey powers — to
disguise herself as a boy.
While hunting for wyvern eggs, she
saves a young scientist who's about to get steamed by a silvertail — and
finds her childhood friend Tam Grimsby, to whom she hasn't spoken in
seven years. Not since she traded him to the fey. She can't bear to tell
him who she really is, but every day grows harder as he comes to trust
her.
The wyverns are being hunted to extinction for the powerful
compounds in their eggs. The fey are dying out as humans grow in power.
Now Tam and Dorie will have to decide which side they will fight for.
And if they end up on opposite sides, can their returning friendship
survive?
Tina Connolly lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and brand-new baby boy. Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Fantasy, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Highlights Magazine, and the anthology Unplugged: Year’s Best Online SF 2008. Her YA dystopia play, Witebox, will premiere in Portland in 2013. Connolly is a frequent reader for Escape Pod and Podcastle, and works as a face painter, which means a glitter-filled house is an occupational hazard. Ironskin is her first novel.
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