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Before she wrote as New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison, Dawn Cook wrote the Truth... This is the first novel of Dawn Cook's extraordinary coming-of-age fantasy featuring Alissa, a young novice in the art of magic, who embarks on an epic journey of discovery and danger. Alissa doesn't believe in magic. Her father's stories about the Hold, a legendary fortress where human Keepers learn magic from the enigmatic Maters, are just thatstories. But her mother insists that Alissa has inherited her father's magical ability, and so she must go to the Holdthe only place her talents can be trained. On her way, she crosses paths with Strell, a wandering musician from the plains. And though Alissa is not sure she can trust a plainsman, Strell has something she needsone of her father's old maps. Travelling together, they can reach the Hold before the snow sets in. But they don't know that the Hold is nearly empty. Something is very wrong and someone believes that Alissa and Strell knows about a book called First Truth. Despite her refusal to believe in magic, Alissa is sent to the Hold, a legendary fortress where human Keepers learn the art of magic from the Masters, joining forces on her journey with Strell, a wandering musician, to find her destination, but she soon discovers that Bailic, a renegade Keeper, threatens the safety of the Hold, and only she can save it Alissa didn't believe in magic, not until she was sent on a journey to an endangered fortress known as The Hold-and discovered the gifts within herself to save it.