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  • Ghostlight

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    eBook (Tor Books, March 30, 2010)
    Thorne Blackburn claimed to have magickal powers, to be able to tap into ancient wisdom. Others claimed he was a fake, cheating his many followers out of their money and destroying their free well.The truth may never be known . . . one dark, climactic night thirty years ago, Blackburn's most powerful ritual went horribly awry, leaving his flock shattered and one woman dead. Blackburn himself vanished.Now the scattered remains of Blackburn's followers have rallied around a new leader, the charismatic Justin Pilgrim. Hearing this, Thorne Blackburn's daughter, Truth, returns to the site of her mother's death and father's disappearance. Truth has many unanswered questions. Where are her long-lost half-siblings? Was her mother's death accident or murder? Is Pilgrim a charlatan, or are his claimed powers real? If he completes Thorn's ritual, will someone else die?The answers will lead Truth to deeply powerful truth of her own, one that will change her life forever. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
  • Ghostlight

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Mass Market Paperback (Tor Books, Feb. 17, 2003)
    What is the Truth?Truth Blackburn’s father thought he knew what it was. Thorne Blackburn and his followers settled at Shadow's Gate, a magnificent old house in upstate New York, and sought the Truth about life through ritual and magic. One night, something went badly wrong during Thorne’s most powerful ceremony. When the chaos had passed, Thorne had vanished, and Katherine, mother of Thorne’s young daughter Truth, was dead. Thirty years later, Truth Blackburn searches for smaller truths: what really happened that night at Shadow's Gate? Did Thorne truly have magical powers? And what happened to her half-siblings, a boy and girl Truth last saw that horrible night when her mother died?
  • Ghostlight

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Hardcover (Tor Books, Sept. 1, 1995)
    Twenty years after her parents are killed in a dangerous ceremony intended to release the old gods back to Earth, Truth Blackburn returns to the family estate to learn the truth and confronts the leader of her parent's revived cult. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.
  • Ghostlight

    Marion Bradley

    Paperback (TOR Books, Dec. 9, 2008)
    Thorne Blackburn claimed to have magickal powers, to be able to tap into ancient wisdom. Others claimed he was a fake, cheating his many followers out of their money and destroying their free well.The truth may never be known . . . one dark, climactic night thirty years ago, Blackburn's most powerful ritual went horribly awry, leaving his flock shattered and one woman dead. Blackburn himself vanished.Now the scattered remains of Blackburn's followers have rallied around a new leader, the charismatic Justin Pilgrim. Hearing this, Thorne Blackburn's daughter, Truth, returns to the site of her mother's death and father's disappearance. Truth has many unanswered questions. Where are her long-lost half-siblings? Was her mother's death an accident or murder? Is Pilgrim a charlatan, or are his claimed powers real? If he completes Thorne's ritual, will someone else die?The answers will lead Truth to a deeply powerful truth of her own, one that will change her life forever.Ghostlight, this wonderful contemporary fantasy by New York Times bestseller Marion Zimmer Bradley was named "Best Fantasy Novel of the Year" by VOYA when it was first published in 1995.
  • Ghostlight

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Paperback (Tor Books, Aug. 15, 1996)
    What is the Truth?Truth Blackburn’s father thought he knew what it was. Thorne Blackburn and his followers settled at Shadow's Gate, a magnificent old house in upstate New York, and sought the Truth about life through ritual and magic. One night, something went badly wrong during Thorne’s most powerful ceremony. When the chaos had passed, Thorne had vanished, and Katherine, mother of Thorne’s young daughter Truth, was dead. Thirty years later, Truth Blackburn searches for smaller truths: what really happened that night at Shadow's Gate? Did Thorne truly have magical powers? And what happened to her half-siblings, a boy and girl Truth last saw that horrible night when her mother died?
  • Ghostlight

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Paperback (Tor Books, Dec. 9, 2008)
    Thorne Blackburn claimed to have magickal powers, to be able to tap into ancient wisdom. Others claimed he was a fake, cheating his many followers out of their money and destroying their free well.The truth may never be known . . . one dark, climactic night thirty years ago, Blackburn’s most powerful ritual went horribly awry, leaving his flock shattered and one woman dead. Blackburn himself vanished.Now the scattered remains of Blackburn’s followers have rallied around a new leader, the charismatic Justin Pilgrim. Hearing this, Thorne Blackburn’s daughter, Truth, returns to the site of her mother’s death and father’s disappearance. Truth has many unanswered questions. Where are her long-lost half-siblings? Was her mother’s death an accident or murder? Is Pilgrim a charlatan, or are his claimed powers real? If he completes Thorne’s ritual, will someone else die?The answers will lead Truth to a deeply powerful truth of her own, one that will change her life forever.This wonderful contemporary fantasy by New York Times bestseller Marion Zimmer Bradley was named “Best Fantasy Novel of the Year” by VOYA when it was first published in 1995.
  • Ghostlight

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Mass Market Paperback (Tor Books, March 30, 2010)
    Thorne Blackburn claimed to have magickal powers, to be able to tap into ancient wisdom. Others claimed he was a fake, cheating his many followers out of their money and destroying their free well.The truth may never be known . . . one dark, climactic night thirty years ago, Blackburn€™s most powerful ritual went horribly awry, leaving his flock shattered and one woman dead. Blackburn himself vanished.Now the scattered remains of Blackburn€™s followers have rallied around a new leader, the charismatic Justin Pilgrim. Hearing this, Thorne Blackburn€™s daughter, Truth, returns to the site of her mother€™s death and father€™s disappearance. Truth has many unanswered questions. Where are her long-lost half-siblings? Was her mother€™s death accident or murder? Is Pilgrim a charlatan, or are his claimed powers real? If he completes Thorn€™s ritual, will someone else die?The a
  • Ghostlight

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Paperback (Tom Doherty Associates, March 15, 1995)
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