The House Of Gaian: Anne Bishop

Book III of the Tir Alainn trilogy. It began as a witch hunt. But the Master-Inquisitor's plans to eliminate all traces of female power in the world have expanded to crushing the Sylvalan barons who oppose him, and to destroying the wellspring of magic in the Mother's Hills. Faced with this evil, humans, witches and the Fae form an uneasy alliance. But even together they are not strong enough to stand against the gathering armies of the Inquisitor. They look for help from the last possible ally - the House of Gaian, the reclusive witches who rule the Mother's Hills, powerful enough to create a new world - or to destroy one. The witches' creed of Do No Harm is about to give way to a more important one: Survive. Cover art by Shane Parker.