Year of the Unicorn

Taken from their families in the Year of the Unicorn, the thirteen were the payment to settle the Great Bargain by which the Hounds of Alizon were finally beaten from High Hallack with the aid of the Were-Riders. The Were-Riders wore the bodies of men, but they were not human-kind, and the price of their alliance was thirteen beautiful maids of High Hallack to be taken as brides to the unknown. Gillan, one of the thirteen brides, was destined to see beyond the illusion and mist that cloaked the shapes of the nomadic Were-Riders, and view the lost powers, the forgotten world, and the ancient challenge that threatened them all.