Change #9
Roc
September 2016
On Sale: September 6, 2016
848 pages ISBN: 0451417364 EAN: 9780451417367 Kindle: B00SI025P2 Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
In his Novels of the Change, New York Times
bestselling author S.M. Stirling presents “a devastated,
mystical world that will appeal to fans of traditional
fantasy as well as post-apocalyptic SF.”* Continuing their
quest that began in The Golden Princess, two future
rulers of a world without technology risk their lives
seeking a fabled blade…
Reiko, Empress of Japan, has allied herself with Princess
Órlaith, heir to the High Kingdom of Montival, to find the
Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, the Grass-Cutting Sword, a
legendary treasure of an ancient dynasty that confers valor
and victory to its bearer. Órlaith understands all too well
the power it signifies. Her own inherited blade, the Sword
of the Lady, was both a burden and a danger to her father,
Rudi Mackenzie, as it failed to save the king from being
assassinated.
But the fabled sword lies deep with the Valley of Death, and
the search will be far from easy. And war is building, in
Montival and far beyond.
As Órlaith and Reiko encounter danger and wonder, Órlaith’s
mother, Queen Matildha, believes her daughter’s alliance and
quest has endangered the entire realm. There are factions
both within and without Montival whose loyalty died with the
king, and whispers of treachery and war grow ever louder.
And the Malevolence that underlies the enemy will bend all
its forces to destroy them.