The Starstone: Book 4 in the complete 9-volume Gom series

		THE STARSTONE Book 4 in the complete 9-volume Gom series Apprenticed to a hostile sorcerer, Gom works to gain his own wizard's title. While learning the magic lore from Folgan, his envious and suspicious master, he also learns to be less trusting. One comfort is Stormfleet the magical cíto still disguised as an old gray hack. Another is Hevron, his master's horse, and Keke, a harrier or marsh hawk. When danger threatens Ulm at last, Gom discovers that no learning can match wit, courage, and determination. As his world hangs in the balance, Gom confronts his greatest fears on the crystal stair, and the boy from Windy Mountain becomes a wizard of legend.
Reggia, a chambermaid in Penlangoth, reads Gom's tea leaves and tells him he'll never wed a mortal maid of Ulm. He is so upset by this that he asks Lady Vala show him the future via her magic bowl. Cupping his hands into the water, he looks down and sees in them an armored warrior! "Gom snatched his hands from the bowl and covered his face. Long as he lived - as clearly as it was meant to be - his only love would be a battlefield and war!"
	left: illustrated initial T for chapter 12 right: illustrated initial G for chapter 23
The book includes a fold-out colored map, graphics, illustrated letters, music and a pronunciation glossary. The tune you may hear is Gom's Song of the Dunderfosse, or "Lucky the Few.".
Lucky the few who tread these ways, / And dwell within these bounds; / Where cool bough shades the sun's bright rays / And rushing stream resounds. / Thus with glad song to Harga's lake / We take the forest's course; / On Harga's isle new lives to make, / For boy, and hawk, and horse!