The Forgotten Beasts Of Eld [Paperback]

World Fantasy Award-Winner
Newly available in print and e-book editions

Rich and regal.
The New York Times

Young Sybel, the heiress of powerful wizards, needs the company of no-one outside her gates. In her exquisite stone mansion, she is attended by exotic, magical beasts: Riddle-master Cyrin the boar; the treasure-starved dragon Gyld; Gules the Lyon, tawny master of the Southern Deserts; Ter, the fiercely vengeful falcon; Moriah, feline Lady of the Night. Sybel only lacks the exquisite and mysterious Liralen, which continues to elude her most powerful enchantments.

But when a soldier bearing an infant arrives, Sybel discovers that the world of man and magic is full of both love and deceit, and the possibility of more power than she can possibly imagine.Praise forThe Forgotten Beasts of Eld

Rich and regal.
New York Times

This is my favorite book of all time. If I had to pick a desert island book, it would be this one.
Gail Carriger,New York Timesbestselling author of theParasol Protectorate

Before Daenerys was Mother of Dragons, Sybel commanded beasts of all kinds. McKillip offers up a powerful character full of passion, determination, obsession, and love.
A. C. Wise, author ofThe Kissing Booth Girl

This is what great literature looks like: bold, self-incisive, powerfully feminist without drawing attention to anything but the prose, the characters, and the story.
Usman T. Malik, author ofThe Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn

Some books stay with you. It's been over forty years now since I first readThe Forgotten Beasts of Eldand succumbed to its enchantments. With its rich and lyric prose, its wondrous mix of characters (beasts included!), and its thoroughly enchanted world it was unlike anything I had read to that point. Forty years later I still cherish the experience.
Bruce Coville,lƒ*