The Shape Changers Wife

Winner of the William Crawford Award for Achievement in Fantasy.
The novel that launched Sharon Shinn's stunning career and inspired Peter S. Beagle to call her the most promising and original writer of fantasy to come along since Robin McKinley. (Locus)
Aubrey is a young student, gifted in the fine art of sorcery. So he travels to a faraway land in search of the greatest master of all, the mystical shape-changer Glyrender. From him, Aubrey expects to learn the secret of spells and the mysteries of magic. But there is one magical discovery he never expected--the shape-changer's beautiful wife. Original.