Blood’s Pride

Description

A generation has passed since that bloogy night when the Norlanders' great ships bore down on the Shadar, and from the backs of their great flying beasts, the 'Dead Ones' slashed and burned the desert city into submission. Now the enslaved Shadari toil in the mines for the increasingly rare black ore, the Norlanders' greatest prize.

The Norlander governor is dying, and his three alienated children struggle against the crushing isolation of their lives in the desert. Eofar, the eldest, searches desperately for the runaway Shadari slave who will soon give birth to his child. His fiercely ambitious sister Frea, her perfect face hidden beneath a silver wolf's helm, works the helpless slaves to death to further her interests at the far-off Norland court. And Isa, the youngest, tries to mould herself into the epitome of the icy northern warrior, though she knows nothing but the burning sands.

Into this world strolls the Mongrel, summoned by the Shadari rebels to lead their bid for freedom. Her terms are unusual - and unsettling: she will name her reaward only after the Norlanders have been defeated. Her presence is like an acid, stripping away the lies of the past, and bonds of blood and race are shattered, only to be replaced by new and unexpected alliances.

Blood's Pride: the first in an enthralling new fantasy epic: Shattered Kingdoms.