Barbara Hambly's Darwath Trilogy is $1.99 at
Amazon US right now. (I checked Kobo and it was full price there.) The individual books (The Time of the Dark, The Walls of Air, and The Armies of Daylight) have all been on sale at various times, so check your libraries before one-clicking.
Hambly has a lot of fans here, including me. She has a background in history that informs her worldbuilding. These are her first fantasy novels, which shows in places, but I've still re-read them multiple times.
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As a student of medieval history, Gil Patterson is a woman familiar with dark stories. She knows the Crusades, the Black Death, and the other horrors of the Middle Ages all too well, but it is another kind of atrocity that has begun to haunt her dreams. She sees forces of evil assaulting a beleaguered kingdom, whose kind people are on the brink of annihilation, and awakes each morning in a cold sweat.
In The Time of the Dark, Gil dismisses the dreams until a wizard appears in her apartment. He has crossed into her dimension, passing through the fraying fabric of the universe, to ask her help. For mankind to survive he must protect an infant prince, whom he plans to hide in Gil's world. She is about to get much closer to evil than she ever imagined.
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