A university graduate in music and languages, she has had a varied career that includes working for government agencies, opera singing, and raising four children. She currently lives in a rural area of Western Australia, sharing her house with a cat and a dog. Juliet Marillier was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, a town with strong Scottish roots. This is an intelligent historical romance in which the supernatural is a part of the character's everyday lives to an extent that makes it hard to think of the book as specifically a fantasy-these are people to whom the beings of forest speak on a regular basis and to whom sorcery is real.

Liadan discovers that she cannot choose whom she loves and that she and the Painted Man are as bound up in destiny as her mother and father were before her. A chance meeting on the road carries her off to care for a dying man-one of the mercenaries of the sinister Painted Man, Eamonn's archenemy and a killer for hire. Sorcha's daughter Liadan is a gifted seer and healer who thinks, in spite of her visions, that she knows what the future has in store for her-caring for her dying mother and then an alliance marriage to Eamonn. Second of the Sevenwaters trilogy of novels about the last days of heroic Ireland, Son of the Shadows takes up the story of the children of Sorcha, who saved her enchanted brothers, and Hugh, the Briton she married. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.

And she will need all of her strength to stand up to those she loves best, for in the finding of her own true love, Liadan's course may doom them all. Liadan will need all of her courage to help save her family, for there are dark forces and ancient powers conspiring to destroy this family's peace-and their world. Beloved child and dutiful daughter, Liadan embarks on a journey that shows her just how hard-won was the peace that she has known all her life. It is from her sacrifice that Sorcha's brothers were brought home to their ancestral fortress Sevenwaters, and her life has known much joy.īut not all the brothers were able to fully escape the spell that transformed them into swans, and it is left to Sorcha's daughter Liadan to help fulfill the destiny of the Sevenwaters clan. Son of the Shadows, the second book in Juliet Marillier's award-winning Sevenwaters Trilogyīeautiful Sorcha is the courageous young woman who risked all to save her family from a wicked curse and whose love shattered generations of hate and bridged two cultures.

Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier