The Forgotten Beasts Of Eld

This World Fantasy Award winner is a spellbinding tale of chilling sorcery, human complexities, and dynastic war. Like the Ring trilogy or the Earthsea books . . . this magical moonlit fantasy has dignity and romance, heart-stopping suspense, adventure, richness of concept and language., Publishers Weekly
Raised on Eld mountain with only her father's magical menagerie for company, a young wizard is drawn irrevocably into the human world with all its sorrows and delights when a baby comes into her care.