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 βa devastated, mystical world that will appeal to fans of traditional fantasy as well as post-apocalyptic SF.β* Continuing their quest that began in The Golden Princess, two future rulers of a world without technology risk their lives seeking a fabled bladeβ¦
Reiko, Empress of Japan, has allied herself with Princess Γrlaith, 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. Γrlaith 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 Γrlaith and Reiko encounter danger and wonder, Γrlaithβs mother, Queen Matildha, believes her daughterβs 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.
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