
by Andre Norton, Lyn McConchie
Take a young Lord who has seen misfortune on a massive scale including his dale and keep which suffered destruction from invaders with deadly machines that wipe out his family. Add a young beautiful maiden who is a Lady of power. She it is who receives blessings and communications from the bees whose hives communicate, feed, spy and fight for her after a traitor to her remote keep leads bandits there that kill all of the inhabitants there save herself, a very bad move on their part because she repays them in kind. Together they team up to make a force to be reckoned with as they fight to restore good and reestablish and repopulate her now empty keep. If you like adventure, magic, old ones, love and the Witch World series - this book is for you.

17 February 1912 – 17 March 2005
Andre Norton was born Alice Mary Norton in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of rug company owner and his wife. She began writing while she was in high school, and she was the editor of a literary page in the school's paper. She also wrote her first novel, Ralestone Luck, which was published in 1938. Her first published novel was The Prince Commands (1934). She graduated from high school in 1930 and began studying teaching at Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University. In 1932 she dropped out early due to economic conditions and began working for the Cleveland Library System. In 1934, she legally changed her name to Andre Alice Norton, the pen name she had adopted to increase…

3 April 1946
Lyn McConchie was crippled in an accident in 1977 and forced to take medical retirement in 1988. She became a professional writer in 1991. Since then, she has published a many short stories in at least six countries, and 18 novels. She owns and runs a small farm in New Zealand, where she breeds coloured sheep and tends her free range geese and hens. She has received the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novel in 2003 for Beastmaster's Ark, in 2005 for Beastmaster's Circus, and 2006 for The Duke's Ballad, all three of the books having been co-written with Andre Norton.
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