Three children are drawn into another world where a fierce conflict for power is waging.

A vicious act of greed that wrecked the world... The Khentors, on their great Horned Horses, had wandered the Great Plain for longer than memory, and in all that time the magnificent Golden People, with their red metal spears and walled towns, had been Masters of the Khentorei. That the Golden Ones should take women as tribute was not unusual. But now they had taken Nai, a priestess—and not just a prestess—for Nai, Chosen of the Gods, was the Luck of her Tribe and sister to Mor'anh, named for the Lightning Spear of the Sky. The Golden Ones had loosed a force they did not understand—a force that would write its fiery vengance across the face of tehir world and shatter it forever.

This is the tale of a love that shattered a world, between a woman destined to be queen and the young man who stole her heart with the magic of his music. Rahike was Young Mistress of Naramethe, an exotic land of spine and wine where women ruled and men lived at their pleasure. Mairilek was a humble potter, beautiful and graceful and strong, who defied custom to play the music forbidden to men, and loosed the power of the ancient sleeping gods upon the earth.

mit Farbbildern von Greg und Tim Hildebrandt Innenillustrationen von Peter Rump, Übertragen von Mechtild Sandberg, Dagmar Hartmann und Dr. Eva Malsch, © 1983 dieser Zusammenstellung der deut. Ausgabe, Goldmann Verlag \- Peter Wilfert „Einleitende Gedanken zur Fantasy und dieser neuen Reihe...“ \- Nancy Springer „Der Barde“ („The Bard“ © 1983 by Nancy Springer) \- Elizabeth A. Lynn „Der rote Falke“ („The Red Hawk“ © 1983) \- Bernd Kreimeier „Verloren ist Shalem“ (© 1983 by Bernd Kreimeier) \- Ursula K. Le Guin „Auge um Auge“ („An Eye for an Eye“ © 1983 by Ursula K. Le Guin) \- Richard Ford „Wo etwas Zartes golden glänzte“ („Blinded by the Light“ © 1983 by Richard Ford) \- Piers Anthony „Vom Kobold zur Nymphe“ („Imp to Nymph“ © 1983 by Piers Anthony Jacob) \- Thomas Le Blanc „Der König“ (© 1983 by Thomas Le Blanc) \- Cherry Wilder „Eine Ritterfahrt durch Athron“ („The Athron Quest“ © 1983 by Cherry Wilder) \- Wolfgang E. Hohlbein „Der Tag vor Harmageddon“ (© 1983 by Wolfang E. Hohlbein) \- Joy Chant „Die Mauern von Kopithel“ („The Walls of Kophitel“ © 1983 by Joy Chant) \- Peter Wilfert „Über die Gebrüder Hildebrandt“