Publisher: Magic Carpet/Harcourt Brace Copyright: 1978 Publication date: 1997 In print. Order from Amazon Books

Summoned one night by the strangely compelling call of a horn, Nora is magically stolen away from her husband and baby and transported to the realm of Erland. The wicked Erl King has kidnapped her as a nursemaid and nanny for his newborn, Prince Elver. When the Prince can walk on his own, the King says, Nora will be free to go.

But before the Prince takes his first steps, the Queen dies, and the King begins to look to Nora as more than a nursemaid, for a king must have a queen. Nora's only hope, it seems, lies in the hands of little Prince Elver, who will sacrifice anything--even the use of his leges--to stop his nanny from leaving.

--Description on back of book

Cover Blurbs:

"Lyric and lovely....[Ipcar's world], where magic can and does happen, is a fantasy land ... of wonder and marvel and illusion." -- Publishers Weekly

"If you purchase only one book of fantasy this year, make it this one."--School Library Journal

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