The Hawk Eternal (Hawk Queen Series #2)

"Gemmell's great reading-the action never letsup. He's several rungs above the good-right into the fabulous!"-Anne McCaffrey

While the warlike and merciless Aenir wreak havoc upon the territory outside the mountain stronghold of the clans, Sigarni, the Hawk Queen, arrives in a parallel version of her own universe through a gate in space and time. Taliesen, last of the gatekeepers, has no idea why she has come. But he knows that heroes are needed and grants her passage into the ravaged land.

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