"For more than a thousand years, the Mirror of Souls waited for the return of magic that would awaken it and allow it to finish its work." 

 

There are stories in this world that can take my breath away--stories that are so beautiful that they make my heart ache, make me want to be a better person, make me want to write something just as beautiful so that maybe I can share something, anything of what I felt while I was reading them with someone else. Holly Lisle's Secret Text Trilogy--Diplomacy of Wolves, Vengeance of Dragons, and Courage of Falcons--tells one of those stories.

"On February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1 degree S. and longitude 107 degress W." 

 

"One winter shortly before the Six Weeks War my tomcat, Petronius the Artbiter, and I lived in an old farmhouse in Connecticut."