Paul Lytle

The Eighth Power Paul Lytle

Two Prophets are dead, and their impressive powers have been passed on to another generation. Their deaths cause the remaining living Prophets as well as the wicked ern to seek out the inheritors of this power, causing war to spread across the land. Meanwhile, in a tiny farming village, Barrin Iylin is left to raise his new son alone when his wife dies in childbirth. Such a task would be hard enough, but Barrin soon finds out that the ern are targeting his son and any others born on the same day. Could it be that his son is one of the new Prophets? And whether or not he is, how can a poor farmer hope to protect the boy against an army? The sweeping adventure of The Eighth Power begins here, with a heartbroken man who never thought nor desired to be caught up in a war, and yet can do no other if he wants his son to live. Here, for the first time in a single volume, is the saga that spans two generations and will leave nothing the way it once was.