The Outstretched Shadow
Obsidian: Book #1
- By: Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 30 hours 38 minutes
Description
Kellen Tavadon, son of the Arch-Mage Lycaelon, thought he knew the way the world worked. His father, leading the wise and benevolent Council of Mages, protected and guided the citizens of the Golden City of the Bells. Young Mages in training—all men, for women were unfit to practice magic—memorized the intricate details of High Magic and aspired to seats on the council.
Then Kellen found the forbidden Books of Wild Magic—or did they find him? Their Magic felt like a living thing, guided by the hearts and minds of those who practiced it and benefited from it.
Questioning everything he has known, Kellen discovers too many of the City's dark secrets. Banished, with the Outlaw Hunt on his heels, Kellen invokes Wild Magic—and finds himself running for his life with a unicorn at his side.
Rescued by a unicorn, healed by a female Wild Mage who knows more about Kellen than anyone outside the City should, meeting Elven royalty and Elven warriors, and plunged into a world full of magical beings, Kellen both revels in and fears his new freedom.
The one thing all the Mages of the City agreed on was that practicing Wild Magic corrupted a Mage—turned him into a Demon. Would that be Kellen's fate?
Deep in Obsidian Mountain, the Demons are waiting. Since their defeat in the last great War, they've been biding their time, sowing the seeds of distrust and discontent between their human and Elven enemies. Very soon now, when the Demons rise to make war, there will be no alliance between High and Wild Magic to stand against them. And then all the world will belong to the Endarkened.
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Obsidian Series

Flawed Heart
By: Bella Jewel
Narrated by: Roger Wayne & Lidia Dornet
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
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Obsidian Mirror
By: Catherine Fisher
Narrated by: Katherine Skinner
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The obsidian mirror. Its power is great and terrible. Men have been lost in it, the dead brought back to life through it, and the future annihilated by it. Or this is what will happen unless the mirror is destroyed. Three people seek the mirror: the first has been sent from the future to shatter its power; the second will protect the mirror at... Read more »
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The Outstretched Shadow
By: Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 30 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Kellen Tavadon, son of the Arch-Mage Lycaelon, thought he knew the way the world worked. His father, leading the wise and benevolent Council of Mages, protected and guided the citizens of the Golden City of the Bells. Young Mages in training—all men, for women were unfit to practice magic—memorized the intricate details of High Magic and aspired... Read more »
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Wings of Light
By: Katerina Martinez
Narrated by: Sarah Puckett
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Learn to fight. Pass my trials. Stay alive.
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That is until Draven, a dangerously attractive hunter, tracks me down and kidnaps... Read more »

Wings of Night
By: Katerina Martinez
Narrated by: Sarah Puckett
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
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Flawed Love
By: Bella Jewel
Narrated by: Roger Wayne & Lidia Dornet
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
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To Light a Candle
By: Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 34 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
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Wings of Shadows
By: Katerina Martinez
Narrated by: Sarah Puckett
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
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When Darkness Falls
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Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 25 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
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Wings of Fire
By: Katerina Martinez
Narrated by: Sarah Puckett
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
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