Shadow on the Glass, A (View from the Mirror 01)

Blurb

A Shadow on the Glass is the first novel in The View from the Mirror quartet. The author is Ian Irvine, an Australian writer of fantasy and eco-thriller novels.
The series follows the characters Llian, a brilliant chronicler from the College of Histories in Chanthed, and Karan, a young woman who owns the humble lands of Gothryme. A Shadow on the Glass was published in 1998 by Penguin Books.