Dragonsbane Winterlands 1 by Barbara Hambly
Hambly writes adults a rarity in the fantasy genre in particular Dragonsbane is a depiction of middleaged regret of people who because of historical circumstances and personal situations will never achieve what they dream of and somehow Hambly writes it in a way that s not depressing and that appealed to me even as an adolescent unsympathetic to the failure to achieve
