At Amberleaf Fair (Wildside Fantasy)

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At the last fair of the season, the toymaker Torin proposes to the beautiful sorceress Sharys, and watches his world shatter. Sharys refuses his marriage token because she has just accepted the proposal of his best friend, the adventurer Valdart. Torin's brother falls suddenly and mysteriously ill, and hovers at the brink of death. Valdart's valuable marriage token is turned into a citron fruit, and he accuses Torin, an ex-magician, of enchanting the necklace to stop his marriage to Torin's beloved. And Torin, who may have created magic in his dreams, doesn't know whether or not he changed Valdart's gift in his sleep.

In addition to At Amberleaf Fair, Phyllis Ann Karr has written four other fine fantasy novels: The Idylls of the Queen, Wildraith's Last Battle, and the series books Frostflower and Thorn and Frostflower and Windbourne. --Cynthia Ward

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Perola

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When young Perola set out to avenge the death of her dear departed sister, she had no idea what to expect. She only knew that no matter what the cost, she would repay the rogue who had deserted her sister and left her pregnant and penniless. But when Perola met the guileless Lord Canmore, he was so mournful and innocent that she could scarcely believe him to be such a villain. And despite her intentions to destroy him, she soon found herself enraptured by his spell...

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The King Arthur Companion: The Legendary World of Camelot and the Round Table

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King Arthur Companion, The by Karr, Phyllis Ann

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The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere

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In The Idylls of the Queen, Phyllis Ann Karr takes an incident (the murder of Sir Patrise) from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and creates an intelligent, complex, and fascinating mystery novel perfect for fans of historical mysteries, of British legends, and of fantasy.

Queen Guenevere is giving a dinner to honor King Arthur's knights when one guest, Sir Patrise, falls dead of poison. The dead man's cousin accuses the Queen of murder, and she is taken away, to be held until her trial by combat. If her knight-champion wins, Guenevere will be declared innocent and freed; if he loses, she will be burned to death as a murderer. She is unlikely to survive the trial. Most of Britain's mightiest knights were at the dinner, and therefore cannot fight for the Queen. Her champion and secret lover, the invincible Lancelot, has vanished. And, as Sir Kay realizes, trial by combat determines only is who is the better fighter, not who is guilty. Kay knows the Queen is innocent and an unsuspected murderer is loose in feud-filled Camelot--a murderer who intended to kill a person or persons other than the obscure knight Patrise, and who is poised to kill again. With the trial only days away, Kay joins with the great knights Gawaine and Gareth and their half-brother, King Arthur's bastard son Mordred, in two quests: to find the missing Lancelot, and to uncover the true murderer.

The Idylls of the Queen is set in Malory's medieval world, where magic works, but the author plays fair; she doesn't use magic to solve the mystery. Also, The Idylls of the Queen is written in clear, crisp, timeless English, and not in Malory's difficult and archaic dialect. --Cynthia Ward

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The Arthurian Companion: The Legendary World of Camelot and the Round Table (Pendragon Fiction)

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The Gallows in the Greenwood

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Everyone knows the Robin Hood legend, but for this retelling, Phyllis Ann Karr has found a historical precident to create a female Sheriff of Nottingham and suddenly the whole myth explodes, taking on new meanings that resonate deep within contemporary culture.

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