from the back cover ~

THE SPELL OF WAR

When Rohan was crowned High Prince and his Sunrunner wife Sioned became High Princess, they swore to keep the peace of the lands and preserve the secret of the dragons, and inheritance they would one day pass on to their only child, Pol, heir to both princely and Sunrunner powers.

But the evil influenced by the former High Prince Roelstra had not ended with his death at Rohan’s hands. And even as Pol gew to manhood, other young men were being trained in the ways of war, youths descended from Roelstra and claimed by Rohan’s enemies as willing pawns in what could become a bloody battle for succession.

Yet not all players in these games of power fought merely with words or swords. For now a foe vanquished by the Sunrunners ages ago was once again growing in strength, and enemy determined to destroy Sunrunners and High Prince alike. And the only hope of defeating these masters of dark sorcery lay in reclaiming the knowledge to carefully concealed in the long-lost Star Scroll . . .

First Printing: May 1989

Cover art by Michael Whelan

The Star Scroll held knowledge, a deep, intense, knowledge that stretched back through the generations. Back when sunlight and starlight were first made magic by the Sunrunners, ancestors of Sioned–beautiful, powerful, and in danger.

As she and Prince Rohan guide their people to a future of peace, mysterious forces gather at the margins of the world. Forces old and forgotten. Dark forces that threaten Sunrunner power.

But Sioned knew about the lost scroll. The Star Scroll that could save the world from destruction…

Tags: Dragon Prince, Melanie Rawn, Star Scroll