a gathering of gargoyles meredith ann pierce

Wandering in the garden of Irrylath, the vampyre's keep, Aerial comes upon a duarough, a tiny man who turns to stone in sunlight, but becomes flesh in shadow. Unable to tell which is Eoduin, Aerial eventually learns to love them all for her mistress' sake. She is to continue her existence as a slave, but now she has thirteen mistresses, the vampyre's brides, who have all been reduced to wraiths by the stealing of their blood, hearts, and souls.

Eventually, he takes her, but not to be his bride. Aerial, determined to avenge her mistress, returns to the peak from which Eoduin was stolen and waits for the vampyre to return. In the first volume, Eoduin, a beautiful young woman, is abducted by a vampyre while out gathering flowers with her slave, Aerial, and is carried off to be the vampyre's bride. In 1984, the novel won the Jane Tinkham Broughton Fellowship in Writing for Children from the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, 1984.

The book received favorable critical reception, winning the International Reading Association's annual 'Children's Book Award' for first novel, listed on the American Library Association's 'Best Books for Young Adults' roster, and was eventually chosen for The New York Times' 'Notable Children's Booklist'. The Trilogy The Darkangel ĭarkangel, the first volume of the trilogy, was published in 1982.

It is set in the distant future, when the Moon has long since been terraformed into a lush paradise complete with its own animals, plants, and races. The Darkangel Trilogy is a series of novels by American author Meredith Ann Pierce published between 19. The Darkangel, A Gathering of Gargoyles, The Pearl of the Soul of the World Cover of the first edition of The Darkangel

A gathering of gargoyles meredith ann pierce