The Girl from the North 1st edition

When a dark stranger, beautiful and haunting, approaches the flame-haired girl on a solitary stretch of beach, she senses that her life at the Healer?s Academy is about to change. As his hands reach for her forehead, gliding across it with intimacy and purpose, suddenly, she remembers who he is, and who he has been. Yet, still, Bronwen wonders why she was chosen, and fears what the mysterious man's presence in her life will mean. Before he turns to leave, she asks why he has come and why it has been her he sought. His reply silences her. ?Rexaria,? he whispers, low and gruff, yet louder than the tumbling sea and the screaming gulls flying overhead. Somehow, Bronwen understands. Kingmaker.