The Sandstone: Book Three of the Sorcet Chronicles

"The Sandstone" is the third novel in the Sorcet Chronicles series. Sorcet and Tachi, joined by Tachi's sylphen friend Leafe Willowsdottor and the droichen Dag, set out to close a portal located in the hostile and arid Eastern Desert. To complicate matters, the portal contains the radioactive makings of a "dirty" bomb and Sorcet is also charged with supervising a spoiled desert sylphen who is in line to succeed the local tribal chief. The climactic battle brings both great joy and great sorrow.