Publisher's Synopsis
An exiled battlemage, once the most powerful warrior of her people, has wandered alone for twenty years in a world that despises magic-because magic broke the world during a brutal war long ago. She keeps to the shadows, hiding her true nature, doing small services in a lonely effort to right that great wrong and to ease her own guilt. Over the years, she's become a legend, a mysterious hero known only as the Rider.When an old evil rises again, she's called to save the world from the very same forces that broke it.Only the Rider knows the danger she poses to the people who call her hero.