Flamethroat (The Fire Mage Trilogy Book 2)

Avalon has returned to Mortlock to find her home destroyed, and her family missing. They have been taken by The Realm for harboring an illegal human, Avalon's sister. Desperate to find her family, Avalon travels across the country to the Headquarters of the Realm, with Healer Jack Greenwood, and animal companion Hawthorne. Their friendship is tested when Jack is reunited with his estranged father, and falls under a mysterious beauty's spell.
Will Jack abandon Avalon during her quest?
And is Hawthorne really one-of-a-kind?

Books in this series:
Frost Arch (Book 1: The Fire Mage Trilogy)
Flamethroat (Book 2: The Fire Mage Trilogy)
Book 3 (Yet to be named) is due for release in 2013