Robert Bowman

The Invincible Man Robert Bowman

A dead witch haunts A'ly'la's mind, the ghost of her former forgotten self. They are both assassins, at war over which one of them will live in their body. Passing through Mithris and the Land of Domes on the way back to the ghostly one's birthplace, they get omens of dangers, including a Talisman of Vengeance, a flaxen girl, a menace of trees, and an Invincible Man. In the Land of Domes, A'ly'la falls in love with its callow, angry King Darr'b. He was put there to rule after being cheated out of the throne of Mithris by his mother and her second husband, Azhn, the sinister Barban King. Azhn is A'ly'la's father by his adoption of her as soulmate to his daughter. A'ly'la defeats the ghost inside her, but Darr'b and she are besieged in his castle by rebels. She and Lord Derotql, a holy assassin who protects King Darr'b, fight the rebels. The witch Urtha greets them, men in green accost them, a vindictive Mage haunts them, and the King's Uncle, Lord Madness, is killed by the Bear God. A'ly'la uses the magic of the ghost inside her to fight the rebel leader, a man armed by the Gods to be Invincible. His holy destiny will destroy her. Friends and foes abound. To survive, A'ly'la has to solve the mystery of the Invincible Man, and discover how to defeat the undefeatable. To do so, she has to solve the mystery of herself.