The Stone In The Skull (The Lotus Kingdoms, Bk. 1)

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This first volume of a new Eternal Sky trilogy takes readers over the dangerous mountain passes of the Steles of the Sky and south, into the Lotus Kingdoms.The Gage is a brass automaton created by a Wizard of Messaline around the core of a human being. His wizard is long dead, and he works now as a mercenary. He carries a message from a powerful sorcerer to the ruling queen of one of the Lotus Kingdoms. With him is the Dead Man, a bitter survivor of the bodyguard of the deposed Uthman Caliphate, protecting the message and the Gage. They are friends, of a peculiar sort.They are walking into a dynastic struggle between the rulers of the shattered pieces of a once great Empire.The young queen of Sarathai must choose a husband - a husband who will become the master of her kingdom. The leading suitor is her repulsive cousin, who believes he is destined to sit on the Peacock Throne - if not through marriage then by conquest. Can sorcery and war in the hands of the Gage and a dead man reunite an Empire?

Product Overview
ISBN 9780765380135
Categories Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fiction, Highlight, MIXnMATCH, New Arrivals
Author(s) Bear, Elizabeth
Publisher Tor Books
Pages 368
Format Hardcover
Dimensions 24.3cm x 3.1cm x 16.5cm
Weight 0.55 kg