Terciel and ElinorSHORT LISTED CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers SHORT LISTED Aurealis Awards, Best Young Adult Fiction SHORT LISTED Locus Awards, Best Young Adult Fiction Beware the wind from the North! In the Old Kingdom, a land of ancient and often terrible magics, eighteen year old orphan Terciel learns the art of necromancy from his great aunt Tizanael. But not to raise the Dead, rather to lay them to rest. He is the Abhorsen in Waiting, and Tizanael is the