Pre-numbered label used for registration.

I read the first book of this series and am not quite sure what happened to my copy but, I can still remember that I actually cried when I finished it (I was a little overly emotional that day). Still, it was good.

Here's what amazon.com had to say:

Second of the Sevenwaters trilogy of novels about the last days of heroic Ireland, Son of the Shadows takes up the story of the children of Sorcha, who saved her enchanted brothers, and Hugh, the Briton she married. Sorcha's daughter Liadan is a gifted seer and healer who thinks, in spite of her visions, that she knows what the future has in store for her--caring for her dying mother and then an alliance marriage to Eamonn. A chance meeting on the road carries her off to care for a dying man--one of the mercenaries of the sinister Painted Man, Eamonn's archenemy and a killer for hire. Liadan discovers that she cannot choose whom she loves and that she and the Painted Man are as bound up in destiny as her mother and father were before her.
This is an intelligent historical romance in which the supernatural is a part of the character's everyday lives to an extent that makes it hard to think of the book as specifically a fantasy--these are people to whom the beings of forest speak on a regular basis and to whom sorcery is real.

I just finished reading this, the second of the Sevenwaters trilogy. What a fantastic story. Here Marillier shines as a true master storyteller weaving mystery, romance, adventure and history together to continue a brilliant story. The characters in this story are just as wonderful as those in her first book of this series "Daughter of the Forest". If you haven't given fantasy a shot, there's no better place to start that with this masterful author. She has a gift for creating characters which stay with you and, in paticular, heroines who stand alone: stong of both character and mind, willful yet never compromising the fact that they are women. This was true with Sorcha in the first book and it continues here with Lidiana.

Marrilier continues the saga of the Sevenwaters clan and the darkness from which they are to save their land. With an intricate set of new characters intertwined with those from the first novel, this is a wonderful continuation to the trilogy.

So keen am I to complete the trilogy that I ran out to purchase the this and final instalment of the trilogy, "Child of the Prophecy", this afternoon before I finished "Son of the Shadows". I can't wait to see how the story concludes!

Released on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 at about 2:00:00 AM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Grind & Gallery Coffee Bar - 4124 Main Street in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada.

RELEASE NOTES:

I'm releasing this at tonight's meetup along with the other two books of the trilogy: "Daughter of the Forest" and "Child of the Prophecy". Whoever takes one must take all three!

Another of the trilogy left by themarina at the meet-up December meeting. I look forward to reading it along with the other two. Check out her website at www.devotedtobookcrossing.com.