The Tainted

Glenda Larke

Voyager, 2004 - Fantasy fiction - 498 pages

I plunged into the darkness ... When I emerged, I was on the other side of death, in a life about which I understood nothing. I was Ruarth Windrider and I was human. the balance of power in the Isles of Glory is threatened by the growing strength of the Keeper Isles. the alien ghemphs are forced to take sides, ending generations of neutrality. And it seems that Ruarth Windrider's difficulties have only just begun - Flame is not at all happy to see him, and Blaze Halfbreed has disappeared. Against this backdrop of upheaval, the selver-herder Gilfeather and the patriarch tor Ryder strive to find a way to destroy magic ... all magic. they enlist a young tiderider to help them, but Elarn Jaydon has many secrets and divided loyalties. And in Kells, Anyara teron dreams of voyages of discovery ...

About the author

Glenda Larke grew up in Australia. She earned a degree in history and a diploma in education at the University of Western Australia. She has taught English in Australia, Vienna, Tunisia and Malaysia. Larke's first novel, Havenstar was published in 1998 under her married name of Glenda Noramly. In 2003 she returned to the fantasy genre under the name of Glenda Larke. She is the author of The Isles of Glory trilogy which includes The Aware, Gilfeather and The Tainted. Her second trilogy The Mirage Makers includes Heart of the Mirage, The Shadow of Tyr and Song of the Shiver Barrens. In 2015 she won the Ditmar Award in the Best Novel Category for her title The Lasscar's Dagger. Her series, The Watergivers, which includes The Last Stormlord, Stormlord Rising, and Stormlords Exile, won the 2015 Aurealis Awards Sara Douglass Book Series Award.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Tainted; Book 3 of Isles of Glory, Glenda Larke
• Author: Glenda Larke
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Voyager, 2004
• ISBN: 0732276527, 9780732276522
• Length: 498 pages