An unseen hand is tightening its grip.Fear spreads across the three kingdoms as smuggling rings thrive and crops fail. All signs point to Fargo: the rogue wizard who slipped through the net once before.In Asthania, Midnight, wood wizard and forest guardian, uncovers signs of sabotage. As the elements rage, Prince Rudolfus is forced to confront chaos that tests his mettle. Far away, Jayhan, the pale-eyed mage,is living in disguise to hunt the same enemy.As Midnight and Jayhan join forces to investigate, they reveal a force so powerful that it is twisting nature out of balance. As they realise the threat is far greater than they could have imagined., their only hope lies in a fledgeling alliance and their courage in the face of impossible odds.An epic fantasy adventure rich with elemental magic, THE ROGUE WIZARD is the second book in Jennifer Ealey's The Trials of Midnight series. Jennifer Jane Ealey was born in outback Western Australia where her father was studying kangaroos on a research station, one hundred miles from the nearest town. Her arrival into the world was watched, unexpectedly, by their pet kangaroo who had hopped into the hospital. Having survived the excitement of her birth, she moved firstly to Perth and then Melbourne where she spent most of her formative years. She took a year off to ride a motorbike around Australia before working as a mathematics teacher and school psychologist in England and Australia, a bicycle courier in London and running a pub in outback New South Wales.She now lives in a country town just outside Melbourne, working by day as a psychologist and beavering away by night as a novelist. She has written two detective novels and has just completed The Sorcerer's Oath, a series of four fantasy novels; Bronze Magic, Wizard's Curse, The Lost Forest and finally The Wizardess.
