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K. Kurtz / Paperback / Oct 1989
The Perilous Spell
Evil times had come for the Deryni, the humans with strange magical powers. The Regents of the boy-king Alroy sought the destruction of all that race. And now Bishop Alister Cullen was dead, depriving Deryni of their greatest friend, for that was the body that Camber of Culdi had worn for twelve long years.
But neither Camber's daughter Evaine nor his son Father Joram could be sure. Camber's body lay unchanged and incorruptible. Was it a sign that he had worked a final spell to hold off death? Or had Camber really become a saint?
Whatever was true, the effort to save the Deryni had to continue. There was a way -- dangerous and uncertain -- to remove the Deryni powers from many so that they could pass as merely human, to scatter into anonymity and survive.
While that great effort went forward, Evaine pursured the most perilous quest of all -- to find among ancient forbidden scrolls the spell that might release Camber. The price to fail -- or to succeed -- was unthinkable. But Evaine was prepared to pay it.
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K. Kurtz / Paperback / Dec 1993
Uneasy Lies the Head
The young King Alroy was dying, and so the power-hungry former Regents began their plotting anew, conspiring to immure the rightful successor -- the Deryni sympathizing Prince Javan -- in the monastery where he had taken holy vows.
Javan proved to be a formidable opponent: The Deryni-like powers bequeathed to the Haldane kings were already stirring in him. Javan was determined to claim his rightful crown and to restore justice to the kingdom. But the former Regents would stop at nothing to wrest back control of Gwynedd. They would use every political alliance they had cemented during the prince's minority, as well as the might of a fanatical new religious order, to keep Javan from ever becoming a true ruler.
To prevail against the Regents, to rule his kingdom justly, and even to live, Javan would have to be strong. He would have to be clever. And he would have to be very lucky indeed ...
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K. Kurtz / Paperback / Aug 1995
The Princes in the Tower
The power-hungry Regents of the three Haldane princes were pleased. They controlled Gwynedd once more, now that Rhys Michael was king -- malleable, wine-loving, and soft. Or so they thought ...
Unbeknownst to the Regents, Rhys Michael was coming into his birthright. With secret Deryni aid, he struggled to grasp the magic bequeathed to all anointed kings. And when Marek -- heir to Gwynedd's last degenerate deposed Deryni despots -- marched into Gwynedd at the head of an army, even the Regents had to admit that Rhys Michael must take to the field himself as king to repel the pretender.
Rhys Michael saw his chance at last. He swore that the power of the throne -- from now on and for all time to come -- was to be held by Gwynedd's rightful king. For this, for his sons, and for his country, the king would risk all ...
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