Mages of Garillon Series by Deborah Turner Harris

They are bound together by murder and magic, in a plot to steal a mind, pervert a life, usurp a throne--and perhaps destroy a world.Caradoc Penlluathe: a gifted, bitter young Mage expelled from his sorcerous Order--for violence ...Borthen Berigeld: a criminal mastermind with unnatural powers--and supernatural hatred ...Gwynmira du Bors: a royal lady who wants to rule Garillon--over her stepson's dead body ...Evelake Whitfauconer: an innocent boy--a brigand's pawn .. moreThey are bound together by murder and magic, in a plot to steal a mind, pervert a life, usurp a throne--and perhaps destroy a world.Caradoc Penlluathe: a gifted, bitter young Mage expelled from his sorcerous Order--for violence ...Borthen Berigeld: a criminal mastermind with unnatural powers--and supernatural hatred ...Gwynmira du Bors: a royal lady who wants to rule Garillon--over her stepson's dead body ...Evelake Whitfauconer: an innocent boy--a brigand's pawn ...Margoth Penlluathe and Serdor Sulamith: Carador's sister and friend--who'd pay any price to save the Mage from himself ...In a tavern in Ambrothen, the die is cast ...An epic of sorcery and power begins. less

OUT OF THE FRYING PAN-INTO THE FIRENot only is Caradoc Penluathe a failed mage, now he is also a fugitive accused of murder. Delsidor Whitfauconer was fatally stabbed in Ambrothen Cathedral, and all signs point to Caradoc, and a malevolent misuse of magepower.Evelake Whitfauconer, son and heir to the murdered man, is in Caradoc's care Eve-lake's mind has been removed and "re-placed" by Borthen Berigeld, in a first move to take control of Garillon... moreOUT OF THE FRYING PAN-INTO THE FIRENot only is Caradoc Penluathe a failed mage, now he is also a fugitive accused of murder. Delsidor Whitfauconer was fatally stabbed in Ambrothen Cathedral, and all signs point to Caradoc, and a malevolent misuse of magepower.Evelake Whitfauconer, son and heir to the murdered man, is in Caradoc's care Eve-lake's mind has been removed and "re-placed" by Borthen Berigeld, in a first move to take control of Garillon.Caradoc, hunted and bereft of the mage-stone which is the source of his power and healing, must travel paths imbued with malignant hostility. With only his native talent and courage to keep him alive, Caradoc must bring young Evelake to sanity and safety.Only then can he tackle the infinitely worse confrontation with the feral evil of Borthen Berigeld! less

Caradoc Penluathe, once-failed Mage, is now a great healer despite himself. But now his enemy, Borthen Berigeld, has unleased a scourge in the shape of a young boy possessed with a demon of the netherworld, and Caradoc must join his foulest enemy if anything is to survive.