Diamond Throne

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Belegariad and Mallorean series comes the first novel in a series imbued with magic and adventure. Sparhawk; Pandion Knight and Queen&;s Champion; returned to Elenia after ten years of exile; only to find his young Queen Ehlana trapped in a block of ensorcelled crystal. Only the great sorcery of Sephrenia; ageless instructor of magic; kept her alive&;but the spell would last only a year; and its cost was tragically high. Now a Prince Regent ruled Elenia; the puppet of Annias; ambitious Primate of the Church who planned to seize power over all the land. As Sparhawk and Sephrenia set out to find a cure for Ehlana; Sephrenia revealed that there was only one person in the west who could defeat the evil plots against Ehlana. That person was Sparhawk.