About the Author

Margaret Weis was born and raised in Independence, Missouri. She attended the University of Missouri, Columbia, graduating in 1970 with a BA in creative writing. In 1983, Weis was hired as a book editor at TSR, Inc., producers of the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing games. Here she met game designer Tracy Hickman and the two teamed up to write the bestselling Dragonlance® novels. Weis has two children, David and Elizabeth Baldwin. Weis and her husband, Don Perrin, live in a converted bard in Wisconsin with two collie dogs, Laddie and Robbie; a Sheltie, Jo-jo; and two cats, Niclolai Mouseslayer and Motley Tatters.

Tracy Hickman was born in Salt Lake City. He currently resides in a large Victorian home he built for his wife and four children in the tall mountain pines of Flagstaff, Arizona. He has coauthored with Margaret Weis four New York Times bestselling series, including Death Gate Cycle and the Dragonlance® series--which have more than eleven million copies in print--and has published his own solo works as well.

Reviews

"Not content to simply create new worlds like the rest of us mortals, Weis and Hickman have decided to re-invent the entire galaxy--and they do it beautifully."
--R. A. SALVATORE

"THE SCALE IS EPIC, THE ACTION IS CINEMATIC,
the characters are endearingly and engagingly human.
Weis and Hickman take their magic to the stars!"
--JEFF GRUBB
Author of The Brothers' War

Mentally bonded with the legendary Mantle of Kendis-Dai, Earth-born Jeremy Griffiths now joins his companion, the Vestis Merinda Neskat, in a desperate race across the galaxy to discover the long-lost artifact called the Nightsword. Pursued by enemy forces whose alliances shift with the tides of fortune, the pair of interstellar seekers learn that truth and trust are rare commodities in a universe of ever-changing paradigms. Coauthors Weis and Hickman have reached the top of their storytelling form with this latest series, a fast-paced, panoramic blend of space opera and high fantasy that should have a wide readership among both sf and fantasy fans. This sequel to The Mantle of Kendis-Dai (Ballantine, 1997) is strongly recommended for most libraries.