The dark city. "Sixteen-year-old Raffi, Master Galen, and a mysterious traveler, Carys, enter the ruined city of Tasceron seeking a relic that may save the world, while evading the Watch, a brutal organization opposed to the Order to which Raffi and Galen belong"--Title page verso. The lost heiress. "Even though the city of Tasceron and its Emperor have fallen, when Master Galen and his sixteen-year-old apprentice, Raffi, hear a rumor that the heiress to the throne still lives, they must try to find her and keep her safe"--Title page verso.

Originally issued as two separate works : The dark city, Ã1998; and, The lost heiress, Ã1999, originally published in the United Kingdom as The Interrex.

Dark city -- Lost heiress.