Darksong Rising

The third book of the Spellsong Cycle concludes a trilogy featuring Anna Marshall, the music teacher and soprano from the Midwest transported into a fantasy world where magic world to musical principles -- making her a powerful magician. Now known as Regent of Defalk, Anna must battle men who would destroy her and claim Defalk for their own.

L. E. Modesitt, Jr., is the bestselling author of the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce, Corean Chronicles, and the Imager Portfolio. His science fiction includes Adiamante, the Ecolitan novels, the Forever Hero Trilogy, and Archform: Beauty. Besides a writer, Modesitt has been a U.S. Navy pilot, a director of research for a political campaign, legislative assistant and staff director for a U.S. Congressman, Director of Legislation and Congressional Relations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a consultant on environmental, regulatory, and communications issues, and a college lecturer. He lives in Cedar City, Utah.