Blood of Elves - The Witcher - Andrzej Sapkowski - paperback

The Witcher series, book 3 of 8 completed series

For more than a hundred years humans, dwarves, gnomes and elves lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over and now the races once again fight each other, and themselves: dwarves are killing their kinsmen, and elves are murdering humans as well as elves.

Into this tumultuous time is born a child for whom the witchers have been waiting. Ciri, the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe, the Lioness of Cintra, has strange powers and a stranger destiny, for prophecy names her the Flame, one with the power to change the world, for good, or for evil.

As the political situation grows darker, and the threat of war hangs almost palpably over the land, Geralt and Ciri are pursued by someone who understands exactly what the prophecy means, and exactly what Ciri's power can do. This time Geralt may have met his match.