The final volume in Katherine Kerr‘s mammoth Deverry fantasy cycle will be published at the end of this month, putting the final piece on a series that has spanned four major arcs and 15 books.
“The Silver Mage is the final volume in the Celtic inspired cycle of interbraided lives, personalities and events in the alternate world of Deverry, through eras and generations of Deverry’s historical and chronological time1” publisher Voyager writes on its blog this week.
The first book in the series, Daggerspell, was first published some 23 years ago in 1986. Since that time, Kerr has published roughly one book every year, although the author had a lengthy break between the third and fourth “acts” of the books after 2000.
The book’s synopsis on the site of publisher Harper Collins Australia reads:
“Spurred on by the priestesses of the goddess Alshandra, the Horsekin hordes are massing on the northern border of Prince Dar′s holdings. Their leaders believe that the rich grasslands of the prince′s domain belong to them by divine right, no matter whom they must destroy to claim them.
