A lost birthright and unending agony. On a whim, the rainbow's child falls to earth, where a cruel adversary takes advantage of her innocence. Bereft of her thunder-swept heavens, she dwindles. The sky calls to her, but she cannot answer. This transcendent short story of J.M. Ney-Grimm's troll-ridden North-lands explores how inner freedom creates outer opportunities. Earth trumps heaven until ancient music plays. (This edition of Rainbow's Lodestone...

Two friends. Two opinions. One dilemma. On fabled Navarys-the Atlantis of the North-lands-Liliyah studies energea as all thirteen-year-olds do, devoting her mornings to mastering the music that controls her magic. Afternoons, she hobnobs with the artisan crafters and shopkeepers who built the island city-state into the trade capital of the world. Her friend Mago faces struggles unsuspected by carefree Liliyah. His father, a renowned inventor, succumbs...

Leon had grown up without parents. He had seen all that he knew and loved destroyed by the wild warriors that sailed in from the North on their boats with the heads of mythical dragons on the prows. But he had a gift that even he didn't know he had. As he grew to be a young man, his life became complicated, and how he mastered his gift could save a world or turn it to unrelenting evil and that evil would rule the world of VaLor' forever.