David Hair is the award-winning writer of two young adult fiction
series, The Aotearoa and The Return of Ravana (based on the Vedic
epic The Ramayana). Mage's Blood, the first volume of a series
called The Moontide Quartet, is Hair's first work of adult fantasy. In a
starred review of Mage's Blood, Publisher's Weekly said, "This
multilayered beginning to the Moontide Quartet plunges readers into a
taut network of intrigue and mystery that tightens with each chapter.
Hair portrays a stark and beautiful world breaking apart, with both good
and evil characters desperate to reshape it through magic, war, and
treachery. This strong debut should draw in fantasy readers of all
stripes."
Most of the time the Moontide Bridge lies deep below the sea, but every
twelve years the tides sink and the bridge is revealed, its gates open
for trade. The Magi are hell-bent on ruling this new world, and for the
last two Moontides they have led armies across the bridge on "crusades
of conquest." Now, the third Moontide is almost here, and this time the
people of the East are ready for a fight...but it is three seemingly
ordinary people that will decide the fate of the world.
