[Angel Spirit Girl]

Slightly standard fantasy story. : An uplands farm peasant girl bonds with a newborn winged foal, so she has to go to the Academy of the Air and learn to be a horsemistress. Usually only the daughters of nobles bond with them. The horses only allow (virgin) women to ride them and do not allow men (adult males) to approach them too close. However, the new Duke - who is in charge of the horses - is jealous of the horsemistresses' independence from his control and freedom to fly. He wants to bond with a winged horse, and was trying to breed one in secret to start his own flying academy. That foal he was breeding was the one the girl bonded with. That is why the Duke hates her in particular. Plus he is taking potions that are starting to turn him into a woman - just to let you know how nuts the Duke is.


I suppose he should have just tried being a eunuch. It might have been easier and quicker. XP I have started reading the second book in the trilogy. I'll have to see about getting the third.