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Seventeen-year-old Ember Denning has made an art of isolating herself. She prefers the dead. She spends her days skipping school in old cemeteries and her nights hiding from her alcoholic father at the funeral home where she works. When her own father dies, Ember learns her whole life is a lie. Standing in the cemetery that's been her sanctuary, she's threatened by the most beautiful boy she's ever seen and rescued by two people who claim to be her family. They say she's special, that she has a supernatural gift like them...they just don't know exactly what it is.

Thousands of years before the Age of Elminster, dragons rule the skies of Faern, and elves dominate the huge forests that cover the land. Only in the mighty, magical empire of Netheril are men a force to be reckoned with. Bored and haughty in his midair castle, the Netherese mage Candlemas bets fellow wizard Sysquemalyn that a certain barbarian who has caught his eye can survive the most savage tests his friend - and deadly rival - can devise. The only rule: The tests must offer the subject some slight chance to survive.

Klara blinzelt ungläubig durch die Glasscherbe. Das konnte doch nicht sein, sie sah ein Gesicht in der Jahnplatzuhr! Und die Uhr sprach zu ihr, sie bat sie um Hilfe! In der Stadt gab es noch mehr Gegenstände, die eine Seele hatten -- aber nun waren etliche von ihnen verschwunden! Kann Klara das Geheimnis des Elfenglases lösen?