Angelverse

This originalization of Anne's "Point of No Return" has so far only been visited in short story collections. It is the story of characters at once new and familiar - the Ashe sisters, their husbands, and their children. It is the story of mages whose mage jewels give them great power, of great houses who sell their daughters in marriage, exchanging a disobedient daughter for an obedient one in the contract as easily as they exchange one tunic for another. It is the story of a struggle between one generation's common-born mages and the gentle-mages, their supposed superiors - and what comes of the struggle when their generation's children inherit it, with all its prejudices and misconceptions.