ORIGINAL TRADE PAPERBACK! The debut of a stunning new talent. A poor, young woman rises to the heights of a crumbling empire, where she must speak hard truth to power in order to save a world from chaos.
Everybody Wants Answers. No One Wants the Truth.
The Arunkel empire has stood a thousand years, forged by wealth and conquest, but now rebellion is stirring on the borders and treachery brews in the palace halls. Elsewhere, in a remote mountain village, a young mother sells the prophesies of her sister, Amarta, in order to keep them and her infant child from starving. It's a dangerous game when such revelations draw suspicion and mistrust as often as they earn coin.
Yet Amarta's visions are true. And often not at all what the seeker wishes to hear.
Now in a tapestry of loyalty, intrigue, magic, and gold, Amarta has become the key to a ruler's ambitions. But is she nothing beyond a tool? As Amarta comes into her own as a seer, she realizes she must do more than predict the future. She must create it.
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nice theme but horrible to readthe short story that baen published as an appetiser, was very good, I even decided to buy the book.
Regretably the book is a disappointment. The theme is interessting, the characters fully developed, but the plot is gruesome to read. I tried a few times to finish the book in hopes it gets better, but to no avail.Posted on
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Top quality writingPowerfully written, in-depth character development, complex & surprising plot turns and created 'world" are internally consistent. Deep and compelling story. I request that the author write another novel.
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FantasticFantastic story. Ended rather abruptly and hanging. Waiting for a sequel.
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