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Title: Holder of Lightning Title Record # 542741
Author: Stephen Leigh
Date: 2003-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: The Cloudmages
Series Number: 1
Language: English
Synopsis: It had been so many generations since the mage-lights were last seen that they'd become the stuff of legend. But for seventeen year old Jenna Aoire legend became reality one night on Knobtop Hill when she found the stone - not much more than a large pebble yet there was something about it that drew her. And then the mage-lights filled the sky. When the lights came, trouble and magic followed, and Jenna's life and future were irrevocably altered. For the stone which had called her was a cloch na thintrí, the spell-stone of a cloudmage. In fact what she held was the Lámh Shábhála, the master stone that was the only means to reawaken the power of the other clochs. But those who would seize control of magic could not do so unscathed, and she who was the First Holder of Lámh Shábhála must bear a greater burden than any other cloudmage. For Jenna becoming First Holder meant putting much that she held dear behind her as she and her mother Maeve were forced to accept the aid of one lord while fleeing the greed of many others. Yet even in the sanctuary that Tiarna Mac Ard offered Jenna and Maeve, treachery and betrayal would shadow Jenna's every step. Soon she would find herself at the heart of a deadly maelstrom of elemental forces, torn between the demands of rival factions and of Lámh Shábhála itself. Only time would tell whether she was truly destined to be First Holder or whether she must give up both the cloch and her life to those who were older and more cunning, nobles who had spent their entire lives preparing to snatch for themselves the power which had marked Jenna as its own... (from the back cover of the DAW Books first paperback printing)
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Holder of Lightning 2003-01-00 S. L. Farrell DAW Books (DAW Collectors #1243) 0-7564-0130-5
$23.95?$: US dollar
xi+
494
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel Gordon Crabb Checkmark
Holder of Lightning 2004-01-00 S. L. Farrell DAW Books (DAW Collectors #1243) 0-7564-0152-6
$6.99?$: US dollar
618
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel Gordon Crabb Checkmark
Holder of Lightning 2009-06-18 S. L. Farrell DAW Books 978-1-101-09927-8
$7.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
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