The Liveship Traders, Book 1
Spectra
February 1999
On Sale: February 2, 1999
832 pages ISBN: 0553575635 EAN: 9780553575637 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant
nobility famed for its liveships--rare vessels carved from
wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness.
The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on
the newly awakened liveship Vivacia.
For
Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly
denied her--a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim. For
Althea's young nephew Wintrow, wrenched from his religious
studies and forced to serve aboard ship, Vivacia is a
life sentence.
But the fate of the Vestrit
family--and the ship--may ultimately lie in the hands of an
outsider. The ruthless pirate Kennit seeks a way to seize
power over all the denizens of the Pirate Isles...and the
first step of his plan requires him to capture his own
liveship and bend it to his will....