The Sword of Calandra

by Susan Dexter

Overview

Revised May 2012 to improve formatting and add map of Calandra.
Tristan does not imagine that his troubles are over. He stands reluctantly revealed as Calandra’s king--but his right is almost universally disputed, his castle has no walls, his wife is betrothed to a dead man, and his throne will kill him during his crowning unless he can lay hands on the long-lost sword of the Last King. And his homegrown magic is no more reliable than it’s ever been.
He seeks the sword by magical means, without success. Galan of Radak--and his sorcerer Reynaud--are laying siege to Crogen castle. After an attempt on his life, Tristan departs for Kovelir, convinced that Crewzel’s fortune-telling cards can give him a clue to the sword’s location.
But Crewzel and her cards have vanished. Seeking her, Tristan is trapped into a clandestine course of study at the mages’ Academy, for which he is neither prepared nor inclined.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013215283
Publisher:	Susan Dexter
Publication date:	11/01/2011
Series:	Wizard's Destiny , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	482,940
File size:	377 KB

About the Author

I was born in Greenville, PA in 1955. I started writing early, scrounging unused diaries and notebooks and writing “books” in them. Illustrated too, because I was drawing even before I was writing.

In the late 1970s, inspired by a couple of wretchedly cold winters in western Pennsylvania, I set out to write fantasy short story in a “Write Your Own Book” I had been given, which had a knight on horseback on its cover. It still does, and it’s still empty because by the time I had finished outlining I could see there was no way The Ring of Allaire was going to fit in there. My novel about a wizard’s first quest was published in 1981.

Thinking titles for a sequel, I came up with two, and so I knew I would “commit trilogy”. And The Sword of Calandra and The Mountains of Channadran continued Tristan’s saga.
(I like to say that my wizard is just like Harry Potter—but Tristan was home-schooled.) I have recently reworked and expanded this trilogy, once known as “The Winter King’s War” into “Wizard’s Destiny”.

The first thing Tristan quested for was the immortal, ageless, magical warhorse Valadan. And since I had dropped some good hints about Valadan’s legendary past, I had a lot to live up to or some interesting problems to solve making the next books agree with the backstory, as I began to tell of Valadan’s pre-Tristan adventures. And thus came about The Prince of Ill Luck, The Wind-Witch, The True Knight and the unpublished The Wandering Duke, the rest of “The Warhorse of Esdragon”.