Publisher: Tor Books, Book Type: Hardcover, Publication Date: 11/1991,
Pages: 390

The world was run by the elvenlords. Powerful, proud, secure in their dominion over the puny humans and half-breeds, they built cities of wondrous beauty, kept legions of slaves for work and entertainment, and took their pleasure with Elven or human concubines. The Prophecy was the only cloud on an otherwise perfectly clear horizon of Elven supremacy.

In the desert, Serina Daeth, formerly the favored human concubine of Elven overlord Dyran, is about to change all that. Driven into the desert when her lord discovered her pregnancy, as planned by a jealous rival who tampered with Serina's anti-fertility drugs, she dreams - as she dies - of a midwife helping to deliver her baby. She doesn't realize her dream is the dragon shaman Alara, shape-changed to provide the mercy of midwifery as a human.

Alara, herself about to give birth, takes pity on the babe and with her son, Keman, raises the girl, Shana. Father Dragon, the wisest shaman of the dragons, can tell the half-breed is more than a mere pest in their midst. She is that most dangerous and treasured person, the fulfillment of the Prophecy, whose magic and fortunes will remake the world. Shana, full of her own bright dreams of the future little realizes the love, betrayal, wizardry and adventure that lie ahead for her and those who become part of her extraordinary life. For her story is legend, the true myth and history of the Elvenbane.