As the Earthsea Cycle closes with this title, Tenar, now old and widowed, finds and cares for both the wizard Sparrowhawk, her mentor who has spent all of his once-strong powers, and a young burned girl, not unlike her own young self. Once a student of high magic who abandoned her destiny for a more simple life, Tenar finally returns to help finish the spellbinding story of the Kingdom of Earthsea.

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