Now for the first time, we’ve collected the books in Pamela Freeman’s Castings Trilogy: Blood Ties, Deep Water, and Full Circle in one volume!  Her follow up to the Castings Trilogy, Ash and Ember, will be published by Orbit in May 2011.

Here is a bit about the omnibus to whet your appetite!

A thousand years ago, the Eleven Domains were invaded and the original inhabitants were driven onto the road as Travelers, belonging nowhere, welcomed by no one.

Now the Domains are governed with an iron fist by the Warlords, but there are wilder elements in the landscape that cannot be controlled and that may prove the Warlords’ undoing. Some are spirits of place – of water and air and fire and earth. Some are greater than these. And some are human.

Bramble: A village girl whom no one living can tame, forced to flee her home for a crime she did not commit.

Ash: A safeguarder’s apprentice who must kill for an employer he cannot escape.

Saker: An enchanter who will not rest until the land is returned to his people.

As their three stories unfold, along with the stories of those whose lives they touch, it becomes clear that they are bound together in ways that not even a stonecaster could have foreseen – by their past, their future, and their blood.

Freeman shies away from simplistic morality, building elegantly well-rounded characters.
—Publishers Weekly

I was completely hooked.
—Good Reading Magazine

A rich and magical world where insurgency is definitely brewing.
—Romantic Times

An impressively different fantasy novel.
—Sydney Morning Herald

Blood Ties has the feel of Ursula le Guin’s fantasy novels … a wonderfully satisfying series.
—Aurealis Xpress

Lots of great ideas and interesting themes … very enjoyable
—BookGeeks.co.uk

Unique … I highly recommend Blood Ties.
—Grasping for the Wind