Wizard's Bridge

When invasion by a coalition of unfriendly neighbors threatens her home town, Alsa knows the answer to their salvation lies within her. But her talent for wizardry won't help them unless she can learn how to use and control it, so she goes to the local wizard, who lives in a castle high on the side of a mountain, for help. To reach his home, she must brave a bridge that appears to be made solely of light and the wizard's ferocious guard dragon. Neither the bridge nor the dragon is exactly what it seems. But then Alsa finds that a lot of things on the wizard's mountain are not what she expects, including the wizard himself. The bargain she has to make with him to get the lessons she needs is a shock to her, and the training itself bears no resemblance to what she anticipated. Alsa has a lot of adapting to do and she’s running out of time. It will take every bit of her intelligence, courage and compassion to master the magic, her home's enemies, the dragon, and even the wizard himself.McCullough, Karen is the author of 'Wizard's Bridge', published 2004 under ISBN 9780975965306 and ISBN 0975965301.