title: Weatherwitch: Book Three of The Crowthistle Chronicles
author:  Cecilia Dart-Thornton 
description: Australian author Dart-Thornton shifts to the next generation of weathermasters in her third fey-filled installment in the Crowthistle Chronicles. Taking center stage is 19-year-old Asrathiel Heronsword Maelstronnar, daughter of the invulnerable Jewel and immortal Arran (featured in 2006's <i>The Well of Tears</i>) and granddaughter of Jarred and Lilith (the ill-fated lovers who starred in 2005's <i>The Iron Tree</i>). Having inherited the talents of her parents, who disappeared nine years earlier, Asrathiel (previously known as Astariel), has also become a weathermage of great power. She leaves her grandfather Avalloc's home to begin her tenure as weathermaster to the king of Narngalis in the capital city of King's Winterbourne. But the king of Slievmordhu, with the help of the hapless king of Ashqaleth, aims to rid the land of all the weathermasters. Though Dart-Thornton delivers more talk (including lectures on vegetarianism and animal cruelty) than action, her fans will continue to enjoy her Celtic-inspired mythology. <i>(Nov.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Weatherwitch
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Also by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
  
  
  
  
  
  THE BITTERBYNDE TRILOGY
  
  
  
  
  
  _Book 1: The Ill-Made Mute_
  
  
  _Book 2: The Lady of the Sorrows_
  
  
  _Book 3: The Battle of Evernight_
  
  
  
  
  
  THE CROWTHISTLE CHRONICLES
  
  
  
  
  
  _Book 1: The Iron Tree_
  
  
  _Book 2: The Well of Tears_
  
  
  _Book 3: Weatherwitch_
  
  
  _Book 4: Fallowblade (2007)_
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Weatherwitch
  
  
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  BOOK THREE  
  OF THE  
  CROWTHISTLE  
  CHRONICLES
  
  
  Cecilia  
  Dart-Thornton
  
  
  A TOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES BOOK  
   _New York_
  
  
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  This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this
  novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
  
  
  WEATHERWITCH: BOOK THREE OF THE CROWTHISTLE CHRONICLES
  
  
  Copyright © 2006 by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
  
  
  All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions
  thereof, in any form.
  
  
  This book is printed on acid-free paper.
  
  
  Map and Crowthistle 