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It has been two thousand years since the Born Queen defeated the last of The Skaslea lords. In doing so she freed the race of humans once taken from tbete distant homes and forced to wear the bitter yoke of slavery.. Thus begins an epic tale of war and virtue, sorcery and betrayal.
In the kingdom of Crotheny, two young girls are playing in the tangled gardens of the sacred city of the dead when they stumble upon the unknown crypt of a legendary ancestral queen.
In the wilds of the forest, investigating the slaughter of an innocent family, the king's holter, Aspar White, weaves his way through a maze of ancient willows and comes face to face with a monstrous beast out of folktales and nightmares. Meanwhile, travelling that same road, a scholarly young priest begins his education in the nature of an evil festering just beneath the surface of a seemingly peaceful land.
The royal family itself is in peril, facing a betrayal fiat only sorcery could accomplish. Now - for three beautiful sisters. for a young man suddenly elevated to knighthood, tor a reckless woman in love with a roguish adventurer dark malevolence emerges to shatter what once seemed famiber and good. For the Briar King, harbinger of death, has finally awakened from his slumber.
ISBN:9780330419451
