Eagle-Sage

In Children of Amarid and The Outlanders, the first two books in David B. Coe's Crawford Award-winning LonTobyn Chronicle, war has simmered along the borders of the technology-based country of Lon-Ser and the magic-based Tobyn-Ser.
Finally, an uneasy peace has been achieved between the neighboring lands. But within Tobyn-Ser, where mages have ruled for a thousand years, civil war is brewing. Jaryd, a young, powerfully gifted mage, fulfills an ancient prophecy that heralds war when he bonds to an eagle and becomes Eagle-Sage.
Assuming leadership of the Order of Mages and Masters, Jaryd struggles to maintain peace with Lon-Ser. But at the same time the ghost of the evil mage Sartol finds a way to bridge the gap between the realm of the dead and the living world, threatening to plunge both lands into chaos and war.
As this crisis comes to a head, another looms on the horizon. In Lon-Ser, Melyor, a street-smart woman with a magic of her own, has risen from the quads to become ruler. Struggling to hold the reins of power, she desires a lasting peace with Tobyn-Ser, but her policy makes her a pariah in a land that has long been a killing field littered with the bodies of leaders who lost the support of those below them.