"You cannot sculpt a piece into a Player. A Player must mold himself out of fortitude and conviction."

So begins the fourth book in Melissa McPhail's award-winning fantasy series, A Pattern of Shadow & Light. After the events of Cephrael's Hand, The Dagger of Adendigaeth and Paths of Alir, the realm of Alorin remains unbalanced.

In Kandori...Prince Ean val Lorian is bound to BjOrn's van Gelderan's game and to his sister Isabel, but Ean would rather be free of both of them. Yet he fears the...