Blending archaeological fact and legend, the myths of the gods and the feats of heroes, Marion Zimmer Bradley breathes new life into the classic tale of the Trojan War-reinventing larger-than-life figures as living people engaged in a desperate struggle that dooms both the victors and the vanquished, their fate seen through the eyes of Kassandra-priestess, princess, and passionate woman with the spirit of a warrior.

    While across a vast sea, bloody war shattered a peace that had flourished for two thousand years in the doomed kingdom of Atlantis.Taliesin is the remarkable adventure of Charis, the Atlantean princess who escaped the terrible devastation of her homeland, and of the fabled seer and druid prince Taliesin, singer at the dawn of the age. It is the story of an incomparable love that joined two worlds amid the fires of chaos, and spawned the miracles of Merlin...and Arthur the king.

    It is a tale that bustles with all the glittering, fervent life of a feudal court—and the tale of a royal family doomed by the lust for power and by the inescapable burdens power imposes: of a king who has usurped the throne by means of murder and marriage; of the king's mistress, who exploits her beauty and sexuality for dynastic ends; of the narrator's sister—and his beloved; and, above all, of the narrator himself—poet and, eventually, king.A brilliantly realized portrayal of an imaginary kingdom. A Mirror for Princes is also an impassioned exploration of any world where power is all, where love and trust are inevitably betrayed.

    Into the Irish town of Carraroe, a magnificent, completely grey stallion appears. The horse brings with him the promise of better times and magical happenings, for he is actually the shape-shifted form of Ruairi MacEibhir, journeyed to such a time of danger in order to win the hand of the woman he loves.