Dawn

"Noreela teeters on the brink of annihilation, but at its center pulses a magic grown stronger than ever before. A boy once carried the seeds of this magic within him, promising the return of a new golden age, until the Mages - exiled for centuries on an island of ice and fire - savagely extracted his power, warped it, and made Time their own once more." "Now the Mages have raised an army of terrifying warriors and unstoppable war machines, led by their most trusted lieutenant. Their goal: the destruction of all Noreela through a reign of bloodshed and death unlike any ever imagined." "But Noreela's last survivors will not go quietly into the never-ending darkness. As he mourns the death of the Shantasi warrior he once loved, Kosar the Thief becomes the reluctant leader of a desperate band of rebels, including a witch, a fledge miner, and a dreaming librarian. And it is in these unnatural dreams that Alishia finds the path they must follow: an ancient prophecy says that the future of magic lies in the womb of the land, and will emerge in a child still unborn - if only she can stay alive until dawn."--BOOK JACKET.

Tim Lebbon lives in South Wales with his wife and two children. His books include Face, The Nature of Balance, Changing of Faces, Exorcising Angels (with Simon Clark), Dead Man's Hand, Pieces of Hate, Fears Unnamed, White and Other Tales of Ruin, Desolation, and Berserk. Future publications include Hellboy: Unnatural Selection from Simon & Schuster, plus books from Cemetery Dance, Night Shade Books, and Necessary Evil Press, among others. He has won two British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Tombstone Award and has been a finalist for International Horror Guild and World Fantasy Awards. Several of his novels and novellas are currently under option in the United States and Great Britain.

Tim has served as vice president of the Horror Writers Association. He has taught creative writing at Cardiff University, and he is currently lecturing at a series of one-day seminars.