The Obsidian Mountain Trilogy · Book 2

To Light a Candle

by James Mallory and Mercedes Lackey

Published
1 January 2004
Pages
656
ISBN-13
9781250767363
Type
novel

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Cover of To Light a Candle

About this book

To Light a Candle followed in 2004 as the longest of the three books at 656 pages, escalating the pair's personal mystery into a continent-spanning war.

Its place in The Obsidian Mountain Trilogy

To Light a Candle is book 2 in the The Obsidian Mountain Trilogy series. It follows The Outstretched Shadow. It is followed by When Darkness Falls. See the full The Obsidian Mountain Trilogy reading order.

Co-written by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory, this trilogy opens the Obsidian Universe: a high-fantasy world of Elven High Reaches, human Border cities, and an ancient magical barrier holding back a genocidal Demon army sealed away a thousand years earlier. The Outstretched Shadow introduces Kellen Tavadon, a mage's son whose talent for forbidden magic gets him exiled from his own city, and Idalia, the sister of a powerful mage who takes him in when no one else will. As the two investigate why the ancient…

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