haha, I finally found it. There was a book I read prehaps 3, 4 years ago. I could remember that it was a good book and that one of the characters was called Sham. And the cover, having a photographic memory. None of tis is vrey helpful in looking for the book if you try finding it in a store.... I googled it. found a list of fantasy authors but I wasn't going through each and every one of them so I google imaged it. Found a pic of the cover and now I have the author and name of the book. Yay!!! Ironically, when I went searching at the store through the authors I do know (simply cause I read so many of their books already and the name stuck)the book came up. They had done a remake of the cover art and so I didn't recognize it. I knew I'd read it because I had read all her books to date but it didn't have the same front cover so I skipped it. Why do they do that anyway when the original cover art was just fine (and usually better then what they come up with afterwards)?