Margaret's Reviews > Stranger at the Wedding

This is set in the same universe as The Silent Tower and The Silicon Mage, but has little in common with them otherwise (barring a couple of minor characters). Instead, it has to do with Kyra, a journeyman wizard at the Citadel of Wizards. While practicing for her tests, all of her spells seem to go wrong, and eventually she sees a frightening vision: the death of her younger sister, Alix, on her wedding night. She journeys home to face her family, who disowned her when she became a wizard, and to save her sister from her unknown enemy.

The mystery is engaging, as is the romance which develops, and the whole thing is given depth by Kyra's ongoing struggle to reconcile her wizardly talents and life to her family and her own desires, as well as by her remembrances of the wizard who taught her and his unkind end.