At the last fair of the season, the toymaker Torin proposes to the beautiful sorceress Sharys, and watches his world shatter. Sharys refuses his marriage token because she has just accepted the proposal of his best friend, the adventurer Valdart. Torin's brother falls suddenly and mysteriously ill, and hovers at the brink of death. Valdart's valuable marriage token is turned into a citron fruit, and he accuses Torin, an ex-magician, of enchanting the necklace to stop his marriage to Torin's beloved. And Torin, who may have created magic in his dreams, doesn't know whether or not he changed Valdart's gift in his sleep.

In addition to At Amberleaf Fair, Phyllis Ann Karr has written four other fine fantasy novels: The Idylls of the Queen, Wildraith's Last Battle, and the series books Frostflower and Thorn and Frostflower and Windbourne. --Cynthia Ward