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Overview

In a post-apocalyptic ice age, neomage Thorn St. Croix was nearly driven insane by her powers. She lived as a fugitive, disguised as a human, channeling her gifts for war into stone-magery. When she was discovered, her friends and neighbors accepted her, but warily. Not so the mage who arrives from the Council of Seraphs, who could be her greatest ally-or her most dangerous foe. And when her long-gone sister, Rose, is revealed to still be alive, Thorn must make a choice-and risk her own life in the process.

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The third novel in Hunter's postapocalyptic fantasy series (after 2006's Seraphs) finds neomage Thorn St. Croix working as a jeweler and town mage in the rural Appalachian town of Mineral City, Carolina. Then her former home, the New Orleans Enclave, sends arrogant metal mage Cheran Jones, ostensibly to instruct her in "media relations" as she is "woefully lacking" in diplomatic knowledge and abilities. When the deadly succubus queen's war on Mineral City provides enough death energy for the powerful Dragon to escape its prison between the planes of reality, Thorn is pulled between the demands of the ultra-lawful Administration of the ArchSeraph and its rivals, the Earth Invasion Heretics, who claim to know the origins of seraphs and demons and the whereabouts of Thorn's missing twin, Rose. Hunter's world continues to expand in this highly original fantasy with lively characters where nothing can ever be taken for granted. (Nov.)

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In Hunter's third postapocalyptic fantasy (after Bloodringand Seraphs), seraphs and demons now inhabit Earth along with the few human survivors who have had to cast their lot with either light or darkness. Thorn St. Croix represents a third kind of human, a neomage with powers thought demonic by the fundamentalist orthodoxy of the kirk but allowed to exist, with proper licensing, by the Administration of the ArchSeraph. Thorn's job is to protect the humans of Mineral City, but when a greater Power of Darkness loosens his bonds, she faces her most severe trial yet. Hunter has created a remarkable interpretation of the aftermath of Armageddon in which angels and devils once again walk the earth and humans struggle to find a place. Stylish storytelling and gripping drama make this a good addition to most fantasy collections.


—Jackie Cassada

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780451462466
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 1/6/2009
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 147,073
  • Series: Rogue Mage Series , #3
  • Product dimensions: 4.10 (w) x 6.70 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Faith Hunter

A native of Louisiana, Faith Hunter spent her early years on the bayous and rivers, learning survival skills and the womanly arts. She liked horses, dogs, fishing and crabbing much better than girly skills. She still does.

In grade school, she fell in love with fantasy and science fiction, reading five books a week and wishing she could "write that great stuff." Faith now shares her life with her Renaissance Man and their dogs in a Enclave of their own. Faith is working on a new series, which Roc will publish starting in the summer of 2009, and a role-playing game, called The Rogue Mage, based on Thorn.

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  • Posted March 22, 2011

    I hope she writes another Thorn is a great character

    I enjoy Mercy's strength and tenacity despite her inferiorty... good readl

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 8, 2010

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    Just average for me.

    I read this book because I bought all three of them at once. Not the greatest but could be worse. I am confused at how the end just...ended, I did like the fact that while she fights demons or bad fallen angels, she recite verses from the bible. These books has lots of magic or spells(well, Thorn wouldn't call it that) for she is a mage. She can fight, though the fighting scenes are just OK. It was not a bad book, could have been better, but I wouldn't recommend it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 22, 2010

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    Delightful

    I really enjoyed this book, I enjoyed the entire series. The heroine is smart, she is capable and determined to save her townspeople despite the fact that a good number of them would like to see her lynched. I'd recommend reading this entire series, and then move on to Faith Hunter's Jane Yellowrock series.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 6, 2010

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    good read hope there is another book

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  • Posted March 9, 2009

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    A very Nice conclusion to the series, but leaves the door open for more.

    I read through the entire series over the course of 2.5 weeks, they were all that entertaining.

    The blend of action and character interactions were especially well done.

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  • Posted October 14, 2008

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    Unique subject

    I love this series! Defintley a change from the usual Vampire, Witch, Sidhe subject stories. Has similar plot line of "woman who keeps discovering she is more powerful than she thought". I liked that it kept me focused on little details of the story to be able to follow and understand the plot.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 26, 2008

    Excellent!

    The most recent in the Thorn series but hopefully not the last. I loved every minute of this book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 20, 2007

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    The 3rd book in the Enclave series features the climactic showdown between the forces of light and darkness. Thorn St. Croix finds herself as a pawn in the war between the angels of light and the demons of darkness, when all she truly wants is to find her sister. Thorn's determination to find her twin has driven her to the ultimate showdown with a Major Darkness in one of the best battle scenes I've ever read. My head was swimming as I read page after page. Faith Hunter has boldly combined new age to the sci-fi fantasy genre and given readers an exciting series set a century after the apocalypse in the Appalachan mountains of North Carolina. This has become one of my favorite series to read and I anxiously await each new title as it comes. I hope there are many more to come. Go Faith!!

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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    fans will enjoy reading about the continuing end of days

    The Apocalypse occurred over a century ago reducing the human population by six billion. Seraphs sent by the Most High monitor and control human and neo-mages behavior. The neo-mages were born from mothers pregnant before the first plagues happened and survived the Last Days. Neo-mages are said to be born without souls abandoned by the Most High and they can manipulate creation energy to produce what looks like magical results.------------ Even though the Most High has forsaken the neo-mages, Thorn St. Croix from Mineral City, Carolina has risked her life protecting the townsfolk from the fallen Seraph called the Dragon, who is second in command of the Fallen¿s armies. He tried to escape and Thorn and company went down to his hellhole and fought one of the Dragon¿s minions and contained him.. The containment has not lasted and soon demon spawn and other Fallen invade the town. Thorn battles them with the help of the townsfolk who accept her as their protector. The Dragon uses energies from the battle to cut off the town and Thorn knows it is a matter of time before the enemy breaks free and tries to bury the town. She is their only hope if she can stay alive and fulfill the prophecy.------------- Even though she supposedly has no soul, Thorn fights for humans against the Dark as if she is the one facing final destruction from neo-mages and fallen Seraphs readers will admire her sacrifice placing others before herself. Thorn is alarmed when a Seraph insists she is the one who is the key in the ongoing war. Although prophecies are an overused device in apocalypse thrillers, fans will enjoy reading about the continuing end of days.----- Harriet Klausner

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