Dragonlinks
During a state banquet, Jelindel dek Mediesar's family is massacred. Jelindel only escapes death because she has slipped out of the feast to look at the stars. Fearing for her life, she disguises herself as a young boy and works as a scribe while she hides her royal identity from the assassins. In the market place, she meets Zimak, a streetwise urchin, and Daretor, a swordsman. Together they are dragged into a search for a number of lost links of a chain mail shirt - a shirt that once intact, is said to imbue the wearer with supernatural abilities. Could this lost shirt bear any relationship to the murder of Jelindel's family?
The three companions must face danger and many challenges as they try to retrieve the six missing links of the magical chain mail shirt, never knowing the true nature of the shirt until the last link is fitted...
Dragonlinks offers compulsive reading in a thrilling and wonderfully imagined quest for the individually power-bestowing links of a mysterious and arcane mailshirt. The story performs the unusual feat of combining meticulous and original world-building with a matchless heroine in the extraordinary young Countess Jelindel. - Isobelle Carmody
About the Jelindel Chronicles Series
Books in series order
- 1.Dragonlinks(2002)
- 2.Dragonfang(2004)
- 3.Dragonsight(2005)
- 4.Wardragon(2008)
Reading age: 12+ years
This series should be read in order.
The Jelindel Chronicles blend science fiction and fantasy, in a classical quest that contains heroism, magic, mystery and danger.
After watching her family assassinated during a state banquet, Countess Jelindel disguises herself as a boy and conceals her identity for her own safety. While working as a scribe in a market place, she meets Zimak, a streetwise urchin, and the swordsman, Daretor. The three are compelled to embark on a quest for missing links to a chainmail shirt, with legend holding that the wearer of the intact shirt will have supernatural abilities. The power of the completed shirt may be related to the murder of Jelindel’s family, and it must be kept from falling into the wrong hands.