With cover art by Ben Otero and excellent interior art by Valerie Valusek, Lady of the Winds is the last and, it turns out, probably the best of the HeartQuest series. With  a long playtime (it took me about 1 hour and 30 minutes to finish the book, rather than the usual 30 minutes), it tells the story of a peasant young woman who leaves her house to become a wizard.

As the game goes on the romance part of it turns into a romantic triangle, at the same time as Ivee, our heroine, has to learn how to do magic safely. It’s quite a well written book and its no surprise that even though the HeartQuest series is over, Kate Novak will return several times to the D&D world with her own novels often in collaboration with her husband, Jeff Grubb. 

Now a rare book, with a tiny print run, which has reportedly been sold recently for some hundreds of dollars online, it’s definitely worth tracking down if you can get it, as probably the best of the series. It’s a pity that it also marks the end of these books.