New Again
S.A. Payne
Over the past few years he's traveled and worked whatever job he could find where ever the winds had taken him and for the most part he's enjoyed his new outlook on life.Until one damp day he happens to see an advertisement for what sounds to be a very odd job and it makes him curious enough that he checks it out, just wanting to know what it was.That stumbles him into a job like none he'd ever could have imagined and maybe, just maybe, will end his wanderlust and show him his place in the world... of course... his grumpy, troublesome, drop dead sexy new boss could have something to do with that too!
The Door Into Fire
Diane Duane - 1979
Herewiss does have a talent for more mundane sorcery, and (aided by the unearthly creature Sunspark) he uses it to rout the armies besieging Freelorn. But now Herewiss faces a devastating choice.His time to master the blue Fire is running out. Should he join Freelorn in his fight to regain his kingdom? Or should he seek out the ancient keep in the Waste where doors lead into other worlds -- perhaps even the door whose use will teach him to control the Power that he must master or die?...