Gabria wasn't at the camp when the massacre happened. She'd run off after heated words with her father, and when she came back to apologize, everyone - her father, her brothers, her entire clan - was dead. Gabria knows that it was the darkly ambitious chieftain Lord Medb who ordered the slaughter and that he believes none of her clan survived. But he is wrong, and now he will pay the blood debt.

How she will accomplish this she doesn't know. Without clan or family, Gabria is an exile, an outcast, and she'll count herself lucky if she finds a clan that will take her in. Her only hope is to assume her brother's identity and join a warband - a deception that will mean her death if it is discovered. For under her people's law, it is forbidden for a woman to be a warrior.

Aided by a Hunnuli, an intelligent, telepathic horse, Gabria sets out on a dangerous journey to confront Lord Medb. But the chieftain has resurrected the forbidden art of sorcery and plans to destroy anyone who opposes him in his quest for absolute power. To thwart him, Gabria will have to buck yet another tradition, for, as it turns out, she possesses magic powers of her own...

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Five hundred years before the time of Gabria, the mage-heroine of Dark Horse and Lightning's Daughter, the last remanents of the once great Clan struggle to survive in the barren foothills west of the Darkhorn Mountains. It has been decades since the Tarnish Empire extended its hold into the Ramtharian Plains, the vast, tantalizing realm of rolling grasslands on the other side of the mountains. The Plains are perfectly suited for the nomadic Clans and their horses, but as long as the seemingly impassable peaks and the Empire pen them in, the Clans' future is bleak. If they are to continue, they will need to seek a new home.

The hunter Valorian has long been hoping to find a passage out. And he gets his chance when talkative Tarnish soldiers reveal the existence of a supply pass in the south. But it is not until he receives the gift of magic from the goddess Amara that he is able to begin his quest. With his horse Hunnul, whom he has made telepathic with his newfound magic, Valorian returns home to share his vision of freedom and a new life for the clans.

Few are willing to listen. faced with the adamant refusal of the Clan's chieftain to uproot his people, Valorian and a party of men go in search of the pass. But as they confront the unknown dangers of the mountains, the clanspeople are assaulted by the forces of the ruthless military governor Tyrannis. For Tyrannis won't be happy until he seizes the imperial throne. And to that end he needs magic. Valorian's magic...

City of the Sorcerers: Kelene, daughter of Lady Gabria of the Valorian clans, is more eager to compete in the annual Induran cross-country horse race than she is to develop her magic-wielding powers. But during that race, she comes across an ancient tomb which is later opened by clan members, unleashing the spirit of Bitorn, an evil magician sealed there by sorcerers of the long-ruined Moy Tura. When Bitorn brings plague to her clan, Kelene journeys to find the ancient city where the magic to defeat him still resides - and at last embraces her own powers when she helps the Hunnuli horse Demira gain her wings.

Summary 1:

Peace has come at last to the Dark Horse Clans, but when Kelene and Gabria are kidnapped by a Turic tribesman, the fragile truce is threatened. Mother and daughter must come up with a plan to foil the diabolical Fel Karak, who coerces them into teaching him sorcery. A mysterious tribe from the mountains, Kelene's winged Hunnuli Demira, and the people of the Clans join forces to battle a fearsome magic more powerful than any they have ever seen...

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Winged Magic: Three years later, Kelene and her husband Rafnir are working to rebuild Moy Tura, but their happiness is shattered when they're summoned to a clan council meeting prompted by the threat of war. The hope for peace vanishes when Kelene and Gabria are abducted by magic-obsessed Zukhara and his band of religious fanatics, who aspire to seize control from the council. A clan half-breed, Zukhara plans to start a magic-wielding dynasty by impregnating Kelene, assuring her compliance by feeding Gabria a slow poison for which only he has the antidote. As Gabria's life ebbs, Kelene must rely on her budding telepathy when she seeks the aid of a creature even more legendary than her beloved Demira...the ancient winged Gryphon.