The mirror of her dreams - Stephen R Donaldson

With The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Stephen R. Donaldson changed the face of
fantasy fiction forever. In The Mirror of Her Dreams, the astonishing first novel
in the two-volume Mordant's Need series, Donaldson shows us a world of wondrous beauty
and seductive illusion, where mirrors hold the deadliest of magics and nothing is
what it seems.
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The daughter of rich but neglectful parents, Terisa Morgan
lives alone in a New York City apartment, a young woman who has grown to doubt her
own existence. Surrounded by the flat reassurance of mirrors, she leads an unfulfilled
life-until the night a strange man named Geraden comes crashing through one of her
mirrors, on a quest to find a champion to save his kingdom of Mordant from a pervasive
evil that threatens the land. Terisa is no champion. She wields neither magic nor
power. And yet, much to her own surprise, when Geraden begs her to come back with
him, she agrees.

Now, in a culture where women are little more than the playthings
of powerful men, in a castle honeycombed with secret passages and clever traps, in
a kingdom threatened from without and within by enemies able to appear and vanish
out of thin air, Terisa must become more than the pale reflection of a person. For
the way back to Earth is closed to her. And the enemies of Mordant will stop at nothing
to see her dead.