The Raven Warrior by Borchardt, Alice - 2003

New York: Del Rey. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0345444019 . This first edition first printing copy is unbumped and very clean. Several pages, however, have small corner bends. The dust jacket is clean and crisp but has two cuts totalling 3.75" along the back fold. ; Borchardt, Alice. Tales of Guinevere, Bk. 2.; 1.36 x 9.44 x 6.4 Inches; 470 pages; With the knowing eye and fiery voice of an accomplished storyteller, Alice Borchardt takes us back to the amazing world of a re-envisioned Camelot in the continuing Tales of Guinevere. Remarkably strong, magically talented, a match for friend and foe alike, Guinevere has come into womanhood— and faces a new relationship with Lancelot that will lead to the sharp-edged triangle of legend....Born of the Highlands, along Pictish shores washed by the icy North Sea, Guinevere, Queen of the Dragon People, has become a woman. She has taken the power offered to her by the Dragon Throne. Now there is no turning back. In order to protect her beloved homeland from the obscene greed of the Saxon raiders, Guinevere knows she must launch an attack. The sub-chiefs refuse to fall in line with her plans (because what does this young thing, barely a woman, know of warfare? ) and give her an army of the useless, the outcast, the weakest of their young boys and girls. But the war party must proceed. If it fails, the command of both land and sea will fall to the enemy. Facing her first battle against the pirates on foreign shores, and backed only by a meager band of ill-equipped fighters, Guinevere calls upon the spirits of the dead to aid her in the attack. Diving into the dark, morbid depths, Guinevere suddenly understands more of hate, love, anger, and revenge than she has ever wanted to. But the power the dead provide comes at a severe price. If she makes it through the raid, she will be a changed woman, in more ways than she can possibly imagine. Furthe r south, Black Leg, her childhood companion, sets out on his own. It is a quest to become a man— a man, he hopes, who will be worthy... .