In her last novel of the Deverry saga, 'A Time Of Exile', Katharine Kerr started a new part of the story, 'The Westlands Cycle', in which she explores the history of the Elycion Lacar, the elves who inhabit the strange lands to the west of Deverry.
'A Time Of Omens' takes up many threads in the rich tapestry of Deverry's history: it tells of Dallashandra's struggle to help Evandar's people - the strange and evanescent Guardians - survive, by finding them a new home on the material plane. It charts the progress of the Deverry civil wars during the ninth century, and especially focuses on the return of the true king - Maryn - to Dun Cerrmor and his marriage to the young Bellyra; of Rhodry's adventurings as a silver dagger during the wars; and of the strange talisman entrusted to his keeping.
And we meet once more the seductive and infuriating Salamander as he searches for and finds a lost love; and witness the beginning of Jill's search for the lost elves of the Southern Isles.
