by C. Dale Brittain (Author)
Antonia is the daughter of the head of institutionalized wizardry, and she wants nothing more-or so she thinks at fourteen-than to grow up to be a wizard too: the first woman wizard. But then she discovers that her mother has all sorts of unexpected female cousins who intend her to come be a witch with them, at the same time as she realizes that a lot of the male wizards are highly opposed to letting a mere girl learn their arcane secrets... As she tries to find her own way, she hears the legend of the Starlight Raven, a bird rejected by its own kind because it does not fit in anywhere, whose appearance is a marker either of doom or of unexpected triumph.
Author Biography
C. Dale Brittain is both a fantasy writer and a professor of medieval history, having been writing stories since she was five years old, and having an early love of knights and castles cemented by a trip to Europe with her family during high school. She blogs at cdalebrittain.blogspot.com, covering both medieval social history and her fantasy novels. Follow her on Twitter @DaimbertYurt.