Pellinor

Alison Croggon, author of the Pellinor series.

Pellinor is a fantasy series by Australian author Alison Croggon, spanning four books and a prequel.

The series is the retelling of the "Naraudh Lar-Chanë", the Riddle of the Treesong, set in the fictional world of Edil-Amarandh. The series mainly revolves about the character of an adolescent girl named Maerad, who was forced into slavery along with her mother as a child, after the sacking of the Bard school of Pellinor.