The highly anticipated conclusion to Lois McMaster Bujold?s New York Times bestselling Sharing Knife series.
The Sharing Knife, Volume 4
EOS
February 2010
On Sale: February 1, 2010
416 pages ISBN: 0061375373 EAN: 9780061375378 Mass Market Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
In a world where malices—remnants of ancient magic—can erupt
with life-destroying power, only soldier-sorcerer
Lakewalkers have mastered the ability to kill them. But
Lakewalkers keep their uncanny secrets—and themselves—from
the farmers they protect, so when patroller Dag Redwing
Hickory rescued farmer girl Fawn Bluefield, neither expected
to fall in love, join their lives in marriage, or defy both
their kin to seek new solutions to the perilous split
between their peoples.
As Dag's maker abilities have grown, so has his concern
about who—or what—he is becoming. At the end of a great
river journey, Dag is offered an apprenticeship to a master
groundsetter in a southern Lakewalker camp. But as his
understanding of his powers deepens, so does his frustration
with the camp's rigid mores with respect to farmers. At
last, he and Fawn decide to travel a very different road—and
find that along it, their disparate but hopeful company
increases.
Fawn and Dag see that their world is changing, and the
traditional Lakewalker practices cannot hold every malice at
bay forever. Yet for all the customs that the couple has
challenged thus far, they will soon be confronted by a
crisis exceeding their worst imaginings, one that threatens
their Lakewalker and farmer followers alike. Now the pair
must answer in earnest the question they've grappled with
since they killed their first malice together: When the old
traditions fail disastrously, can their untried new ways
stand against their world's deadliest foe?
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