The Clan Corporate
 BOOK THREE OF THE MERCHANT PRINCES
Miriam Beckstein has gotten in touch with her roots in The Family Trade and The Hidden Family, and they have nearly strangled her.
A young, hip business journalist from Boston, she discovered that her family comes from an alternate reality, that she is very well-connected, and that her family is too much like the mafia for comfort. In addition, women are family property and are required to breed more family members with the unique talent to walk between worlds; however, she has tried to remain an outsider and her own woman. And start a profitable business in a third world that she has discovered, outside the family reach.
She fell in love with a distant relative, but he’s dead, killed saving her life. There have been murders and betrayals. Now, however, she may be overreaching. And if she gets caught, death or a fate worse is around the bend. There is, for instance, the brain-damaged son of the local king who needs a wife. But they’d never make her do that, would they?
Praise for the saga of the Merchant Princes
“It is a tribute to the budding powers of Stross, who works successfully in both the science fiction and fantasy genres, that he pulls off this feat in a fashion both amusing and gripping. . . . Miriam is a terri½c character, turning the tables on all who would attempt to manipulate her and setting in motion events that promise to transform the evolution of no less than three separate worlds . . . an escape fantasy that is most seductive, indeed.” —Salon.com
“These books are immense fun, a sort of twenty-½rst-century version of the solid, thought-out costume sword-and-spaceship ½ction that provided the enduring spine of science ½ction entertainment. . . . You’ll be anxious to read the third and subsequent volumes.” —Locus
“Fantasy fans are going to eat this series up. With Stross’s strong plotting and wonderful mingling of cultures, The Family Trade is poised to be a modern classic. Its fast, almost breathless, pace creates a rip current that submerges the reader in a world unlike any other and completely irresistible.” —Black Gate
Charles Stross, born in Leeds, England, lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife, Feòrag NicBhrìde, in a flat that is slightly older than the state of Texas. His fiction has been nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards.
Cover Art by Paul Youll
Edited by David G. Hartwell
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