Hawk's Flight

When Taverik Zandro impulsively befriended a struggling young fellow merchant, he had no idea of that youth's desperate secret: something of a black sheep himself, he had no desire to become involved in affairs outside of the ordinary. But after that first helping hand, the youth's turbulent past entangles Taverik in a world of high politics and dark magic, and turns his own comfortably materialistic way of life upside down in more ways than one. When it is proven to him that he has been chosen along with Marco to defend the land against an encroaching evil that seems inexorable, Zandro wants nothing to do with his god-given role. Of course, he has no choice...