Crystal Mask

* Book 2 of the award winning Echorium Sequence. * Twenty years after the Khizpriest was defeated in Song Quest, a wild girl who kicks like a centaur comes to the Isle with hazy memories of half creatures being enslaved to mine dark crystal. Troubled novice Renn is the only one who can understand the wild girl's strange speech, although he wishes he could not Renn and Shaiala accompany a Singer mission to the Purple Plains, where they are kidnapped by a woman who wears a mask of dark crystal. Chained in a barge with other frightened youngsters and a runaway Horselord prince, can they escape and work together to stop this sinister new threat to the world of the Singers? "Roberts writes vividly and dramatically with an accomplished grasp of plotting that carries the reader along." Books for Keeps