A wizard's Ordeal is intensely personal, and sometimes intensely dangerous... or not. Each Ordeal is tailored to the wizard who may pass it—or fail to pass. Each one is in some ways diagnostic of the innermost nature of the wizard who embraces the challenge offered them by the Powers that Be. This is the Ordeal of Roshaun ke Nelaid, scion of an ancient line of wizards now elevated to the status of royalty on their planet. But Rho doesn't care about the power and wealth of being a Prince of Wellakh. What he longs for more than anything (well, almost anything) is the one thing it's beginning to look as if he'll never have... On Ordeal: Roshaun ke Nelaid is a 45,000-word canonical work in the Young Wizards universe. It is one of a triptych of Ordeal tales to be completed in August and early September of 2016.
Author
Diane Duane has been a writer of science fiction, fantasy, TV and film for more than forty years. Besides the 1980's creation of the Young Wizards fantasy series for which she's best known, the "Middle Kingdoms" epic fantasy series, and numerous stand-alone fantasy or science fiction novels, her career has included extensive work in the Star Trek TM universe, and many scripts for live-action and animated TV series on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as work in comics and computer games. She has spent a fair amount of time on the New York Times Bestseller List, and has picked up various awards and award nominations here and there. She lives in County Wicklow, in Ireland, with her husband of more than thirty years, the screenwriter and novelist Peter Morwood. Her favorite color is blue, her favorite food is a weird kind of Swiss scrambled-potato dish called maluns, she was born in a Year of the Dragon, and her sign is "Runway 24 Left, Hold For Clearance." (From her official website)
