Changespell (The Changespell Saga, #2)
Description
Dun Lady's Jess-once a horse, now learning the ways of the human heart: love, betrayal, and deadly revenge.
Jess, courier and spellchanged horse, is still struggling to integrate her human and equine selves when she and wizard Arlen discover bewildered almost-humans brutally forced from their native animals forms and into slavery.
Camolen's wizards can't find the rogue magic user, and the trouble has just started: A dangerous wizard escapes. Arlen's hold comes under attack. An entire company of peacekeepers disappears. Jess and her friends end up at the center of an insurrection that threatens to leave her trapped helplessly in her native dun mare form. Human heart, equine soul...and now the only one who can break through the magic that holds Camolen in thrall. If only Jess can first break through to herself...
"Doranna Durgin is one of the freshest new voices in fantasy fiction. Her style is clean, uncluttered, and effortless. Changespell is a full-bore, straight-ahead, fast and furious read. I want more!" --Jennifer Roberson, author of the Karavans and Sword Dancer series "Durgin tells this deeply insightful and touching tale with a deft clarity. Her eye for detail will delight and astonish you..." --Hypatia's Hoard Praise for Dun Lady's Jess "....Dun Lady's Jess is unique. Durgin has created a character who is utterly believable as both horse and horse-in-human-body. The setup is brilliant: the magic that causes the transformation is not in the horse, but external, and the creature that is Dun Lady's Jess must adapt, must find an identity that works in both paradigms. Humans who encounter her, in either body, must also adapt to the reality that created her and that she represents. She cannot be, any longer, just another mare...she cannot be, ever, just another woman...." --Excerpt from Elizabeth Moon's Forward for Dun Lady's Jess "A thrill ride with a fantasy twist, neatly done by a knowledgeable author - short, sweet, and paced at a gallop, Dun Lady's Jess can't help but to win you over." --Janny Wurts
"Horses, heroics, and magic--a great combination! I thoroughly enjoyed reading Dun Lady's Jess, a spirited and daring novel. I couldn't put it down." --Kristen Britain, author of the Green Rider series
