Amberlight by Sylvia Kelso PRINT

Amberlight by Sylvia Kelso
fantasy
mass market paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Juno Books (November 27, 2007)

BLURB:
Tellurith, the head of a great ruling House in Amberlight, inexplicably finds a battered outlander left for dead in the streets of the legendary city - and an oracle reveals that he must not die. The man, although stripped of his memory, may know of a threat to Amberlight's unique possession: the motherlodes of the qherrique, the pearl-rock that gives their world its most powerful tool. Tangled in intrigue, insurrection and brutal warfare, it will take a cataclysmic upheaval for Tellurith and the stranger to begin to grasp the more-than-human mystery that brought them together.

This is the first book in the series, which continues with Riversend and Source.