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The Ill-Made Mute

(2001)
(The first book in the Bitterbynde series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
2002 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee)

Book I in the 'Bitterbynde' trilogy, and a landmark debut in the realm of Fantasy writing. In a world where creatures of legend haunt countryside and forest, to be caught outside after dark means almost certain death, so the inhabitants of Isse Tower are amazed when a mute, starving foundling is discovered outside their gates. With no recollection of either its name or past, the child comes to realize that the only hope of happiness lies with a wise woman residing in distant Caermelor. But to get there, the newly named Imrhien must survive a wilderness of endless danger. Lost and pursued by unhuman wights, Imrhien is eventually saved by Thorn, a mysterious and handsome ranger, but unknown to them both a dark force has summoned the Unseelie, and malignant hordes amass in the night...


Genre: Fantasy

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