Sylvia Kelso – författare

A city falls. And Tellurith, once Head of Amberlight''s most powerful House, finds herself and her surviving folk on a journey they never thought to make.

A new beginning. Telluir House will resettle in its ancient mountain village, Iskarda. But Tellurith wants more than their location to change.

A different world. Tellurith dreams of a House where she and her folk and her two anomalous husbands have reforged customs, righted old wrongs, and reached equality for all. But the way is beset by perils and surprises, both in Iskarda and in the Riverworld beyond: from the nations of Verrain and belligerent Cataract, and the far more menacing empire of Dhasdein.

A transformed vision. Because the deadliest and most joyful revelations will come on a journey to Dhasdein’s imperial capital, Riversend.

On the River, after the fall of Amberlight, Tellurith and her folk meet the greatest crisis of all...

DemolitionA great lord''s power and position, lost...A seven-hundred year old regime, collapsed...Love and loyalty tried past breaking point....

DestructionBloody revolution...A threat become loss too tragic to forget....

DiscoveryGoals suffered and sacrificed for, to evaporate in the hands...Love undreamt of, unheralded, unforeseen...Secrets to shatter an empire....

DisasterLoss of love, loss of home, loss and more loss in battle...Grief, torment, immanent ruin of all dreams, all hopes....

RevelationCalamity, shock, enemies'' dissolution...Undreamt of victory...Secrets that transform the heart....

ResolutionLove renewed, recovered, forever changed...Love, after long suffering, fulfilled....

RenewalA new dawn for the River...A new, utterly different life...

"Amberlight is peopled with vivid characters that stormed up off the page into permanent residence in my mind and memory, in a unique world, and driving an original plot. If some writers'' prose sings, Kelso''s is an opera." --Lois ​McMaster ​Bujold, Author of Paladin of Souls​ .

"Sumptuous, sensuous, and passionate, ​​Amberlight is completely delightful. Sylvia Kelso is a master of world-building, beautiful prose, and sheer romance.​" --Delia Sherman,​ co-author of​ The Fall of the Kings

A CITY . . . Amberlight, the ruler of the Riverworld. A MYSTERY . . . Qherrique, the foundation of Amberlight''s wealth. Amberlight''s unique possession, whose mother-lodes keep Riverworld rulers on their thrones. AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE AFFAIR . . . She leads the most powerful House in Amberlight. He''s an amnesiac mugging victim, found bleeding to death on the street. So why should it matter, if he dies? What he''s forgotten could be the city''s deadliest danger. What he shows her changes her life. What she means to him changes his own life. But intrigue and insurrection and brutal warfare threaten any future for their love. “Amberlight is peopled with vivid characters that stormed up off the page into permanent residence in my mind and memory, in a unique world, and driving an original plot. If some writers'' prose sings, Kelso''s is an opera.” Lois ​McMaster ​Bujold, Author of Paladin of Souls​ ​“Sumptuous, sensuous, and passionate, ​​Amberlight is completely delightful. Sylvia Kelso is a master of world-building, beautiful prose, and sheer romance.​” Delia Sherman,​ co-author of​ The Fall of the Kings

Hunting Darkness...

Chaeris is the hope of her family and her community, a potential Seer, child and yet companion of Amberlight''s reborn mystery, the qherrique.

Therkon is crown prince and defender of a damaged empire, seeking answers to storms that wreck trade and fling ashore refugees from the distant Archipelago. And with them, word of a menace that still has no name.

Over land, over sea, through unexpected perils and amid unlooked-for friendship, they find themselves driven to a deadly meeting in the ruined Isles, under a darkness that threatens to destroy them -- and who can See a dawn beyond?