Tor Books
September 2014
On Sale: September 9, 2014
Featuring: Miriam; Countess Helge Thorold-Hjorth
576 pages ISBN: 0765378663 EAN: 9780765378668 Paperback Add to Wish List
Bloodline Feud: an omnibus edition of the first two novels
in Charles Stross's The Merchant Princes series
The six families of the Clan rule the kingdom of Gruinmarkt
from behind the scenes. They are a mixture of nobility and
criminal conspirators whose power to walk between their
world and ours makes them rich in both.
Miriam, a hip tech journalist from Boston, discovers her
alternate-world relatives with explosive results that shake
three worlds. Now, as the prodigal Countess Helge
Thorold-Hjorth, she finds herself ensnared in schemes and
plots centuries in the making. She is surrounded by unlikely
allies, lethal contraband, and—most dangerous of all—her family.
To avoid a slippery slope down to an unmarked grave, Miriam
must build a power base of her own—with unexpected
consequences for three different time lines, including the
quasi-Victorian one exploited by the hidden family.