The Guin Saga: Book One: The Leopard Mask

In a single day and night of fierce fighting, the Archduchy of Mongaul destroys the gleaming kingdom of Parros. Her surviving twin heirs, Remus and Rinda, flee into the dangerous forests of Roodwood, where the dead walk at night. Their salvation arrives in the form of a mysterious creature with a man’s body and a leopard’s head that has just emerged from a deep sleep and remembers only its name . . . Guin!