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February 2011
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Featuring: Brys Tarnell
448 pages
ISBN: 1439159157
EAN: 9781439159156
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Fantasy
A thrilling new voice in fantasy makes an unforgettable
debut with this "intriguingly twisted tale of treachery and
magic" (New York Times bestselling author L. E.
Modesitt, Jr.). Liane Merciel’s The River Kings’ Road
takes us to a world of bitter enmity between kingdoms,
divided loyalties between comrades, and an insidious magic
that destroys everything it touches. . . .
The wounded maidservant thrust the knotted
blankets at him; instinctively, Brys stepped forward and
caught the bundle before it fell. Then he glimpsed what lay
inside and nearly dropped it himself. There
was a baby in the blankets. A baby with a tear-swollen face
red and round as a midsummer plum. A baby he knew, even
without seeing the lacquered medallion tucked into the
swaddling—a medallion far too heavy, on a chain far too cold
for an infant who had not yet seen a year. A
fragile period of peace between the eternally warring
kingdoms of Oakharn and Langmyr is shattered when a surprise
massacre fueled by bloodmagic ravages the Langmyrne border
village of Willowfield, killing its inhabitants—including a
visiting Oakharne lord and his family—and leaving behind a
scene so grisly that even the carrion eaters avoid its
desecrated earth. But the dead lord’s infant heir has
survived the carnage—a discovery that entwines the destinies
of Brys Tarnell, a mercenary who rescues the helpless
and ailing babe, and who enlists a Langmyr peasant, a young
mother herself, to nourish and nurture the child of her
enemies as they travel a dark, perilous road . . .
Odosse, the peasant woman whose only weapons are wit,
courage, and her fierce maternal love—and who risks
everything she holds dear to protect her new charge . . .
Sir Kelland, a divinely blessed Knight of the Sun,
called upon to unmask the architects behind the slaughter
and avert war between ancestral enemies . . .
Bitharn, Kelland’s companion on his journey, who
conceals her lifelong love for the Knight behind her
flawless archery skills—and whose feelings may ultimately be
Kelland’s undoing . . . and Leferic, an Oakharne
Lord’s bitter youngest son, whose dark ambitions fuel the
most horrific acts of violence. As one infant’s life hangs
in the balance, so too does the fate of thousands, while
deep in the forest, a Maimed Witch practices an evil
bloodmagic that could doom them all. . . .
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