Is he a child or a demon? A shapechanger who is not to be trusted or a protector? Windspeaker Kyla Cren sings to the wind, gathers news from it, and passes on to her village its warnings about mindstealers. Those creatures rob human minds, leaving their victims insensible and helpless. Because Kyla's parents were victims of mindstealers, the desire for revenge consumes her. The mage Alair has a scheme to destroy the creatures and wants Kyla's help in carrying it out, but it could well be fatal to them both. To persuade her he entrusts to her care what appears to be a winsome boy about five years of age. “He’s not a child at all,” the mage tells Kyla, and challenges her to discover what he really is. That journey of discovery will take Kyla far from her native village into a cold and uncaring world in the early stages of an industrial revolution that has circumvented the isolated valley in which her village lies, ignorant of the outside world. This fantasy novel introduces the reader to the fictional nation of Arucadi, a sprawling continent-nation that is the setting for the Arucadi series of books. Read this novel and begin your travels through that country, where technology and magic clash. This is a reissue of the book originally published by Double Dragon Publishing. I am reissuing it under my own imprint of Arucadi Enterprises, LLC. I will be reissuing all the books that take place in the fantasy nation of Arucadi in a different order from that in which they were originally published. They will be reissued in chronological order of the events in the books, and I will be adding new volumes, not previously published, that fill in gaps in that chronology. Mistress of the Wind is the first book of the series and introduces characters that will carry over into succeeding volumes of the series. It has been revised and improved from the previous version and has new cover art by an artist who will do the covers of succeeding volumes as well, so that matching covers will brand the series books.If you have never read any of my Arucadi books, I invite you to start with this one and continue with the reissued and new volumes of this series. If you have read other Arucadi books, I hope you will find this series in the new order, with its revisions of the previously published books, more satisfying and easier to follow. Kyla doesn't know whom to trust.As a windspeaker, she has always trusted the wind. It is her confidant, her protector, her lover.Now two individuals have asked her to put her trust in them. She can't trust them both. One of them has to be lying, but which one? Or could both be deceiving her?If she puts her trust in the wrong one, she may be courting death. Worse, her trust misplaced could bring disaster to many, even to her entire nation. She has to make the right choice. But can she even trust herself? E. Rose Sabin lives in Pinellas County, Florida, where for many years she taught Spanish and English to middle school students. During those years she used her summer vacations to travel extensively in Mexico, Spain, and other Spanish-speaking countries, but since retiring from teaching to become a professional writer of fantasy and science fiction, her travels are limited mainly to science fiction conventions. She has had many short stories published, and her writing has won several awards, including, in 1992, Andre Norton's Gryphon Award for the unpublished manuscript of A School for Sorcery , a novel inspired by her teaching career. Her published works include the science fiction Terrano Trilogy novels-- Shadow of a Demon , The Gift of the Trinde Tree , and Touch of Death --and stand-alone fantasy novels Seduction of the Scepter , Were House , A House Full of Dreams , Deathright , and The Twisted Towers , as well as a fantasy novel for young teens, To the Far Side of the Forest , and a children's chapter book, Grandy's Grand Inventions . All of these books are available from Amazon.