Sparhawk, Pandion Knight and Queen's Champion, returns from exile to find Elenia overrun with evil and his young Queen trapped in a block of crystal and gravely ill. Only the great sorcery of Sephrenia, ageless instructor of magic, has kept her alive so far, and only Sparhawk can defeat the evil plots against Elenia, and find the cure to save his queen.

Sparhawk, Pandion Knight, and Queen''s Champion have returned to Elenia after ten years of exile, only to find young Queen Ehlanda trapped in a block of ensorcelled crystal. As Sparhawk sets out to find a cure for Ehlana, he discovers that only he can defeat the evil plots that threaten her rule....

Sparhawk, Pandion Knight, and Queen''s Champion have returned to Elenia after ten years of exile, only to find young Queen Ehlanda trapped in a block of ensorcelled crystal. As Sparhawk sets out to find a cure for Ehlana, he discovers that only he can defeat the evil plots that threaten her rule....

David Eddings is a writer and educator. He was born in 1931 in Spokane, Washington. Eddings attended Reed College in Portland and earned a B.A. in 1954. In 1961, he earned his M.A. from the University of Washington, writing part of a novel as his Master's thesis. After serving in the U.S. Army in Germany, Eddings began working as a grocery clerk. He later worked for the Boeing Company, placing Minuteman missiles throughout the U.S. Eddings spent a few years teaching English in a business college and a teachers' college. Eddings' first novel, High Hunt, was an outdoor adventure about a group of men on a deer hunt in the mountains of Washington State. After nine years, Eddings published Pawn of Prophecy, the first of the Belgariad series. The success of that series led to two more, The Mallorean and The Elenium.

"A young queen's life and a country's future lie in the balance as an exiled Pandion knight, a Styric "witch," an aging squire, and a mysterious child begin a long and arduous trek through foreign lands in search of an elusive cure for an unknown disease"--Amazon.com