The Wanderer: Cherry Wilder and Katya Reimann

Book IV of The Rulers Of Hylor. Gael Maddoc is the child of struggling peasant crofters, the guardians of the Holywell. She leaps at the chance of a better life when she is offered training as a kedran, a mounted solider. After a simple assignment as a travelling guard goes disastrously wrong, she seeks aid from the Shee to rescue her charges. But the Shee - the dwindling, long-lived Fair Folk - recruit her for their own purposes. Her nascent magical talents and her resourceful survival prove her to be the Wanderer, a legendary figure for whom they have been waiting. Cover art by John Howe.