King's Blood (William the Conquerer #2) (William the Conqueror) - Softcover

Tarr, Judith

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9780451461360: King's Blood (William the Conquerer #2) (William the Conqueror)

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ISBN 10: 0451461363 ISBN 13: 9780451461360

Publisher: Roc, 2007

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When the eldest son of William the Conqueror decides to abandon the ways of magic, the land is left to wither and die, and it is up to Edith, princess of Scotland, and Henry, the youngest son of William the Conqueror, to cleanse the land of the evil that infects it, in the sequel to Rite of Conquest. Reprint.

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About the Author:

My first novel, The Isle of Glass, appeared in 1985, and eventually won the Crawford Award, as well as being a finalist for the Locus Award for Best First Novel. My YA time-travel science fiction/fantasy/historical novel, Living in Threes, appeared as an ebook from Book View Caf� in 2012, and is now in print. My new novel, a space opera, will be published by Book View Cafe in 2015. In between, I've written historicals and historical fantasies and epic fantasies, some of which have been reborn as ebooks from Book View Caf�. Various of my novels have been finalists for the World Fantasy Award and the Locus Award, and I've had short stories reprinted in Year's Best anthologies and collections of classic fantasy, science fiction, and alternate history. I live in Arizona with an assortment of cats, two dogs, and a herd of Lipizzan horses.

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Tarr continues her gripping alternate history of Britain under William the Conqueror and his sons, bringing to life familial power struggles within the larger context of a nation torn between Saxon Christianity and ancient magic. The Conqueror, a Norman whose rise to power and loosening of the Saxon-Christian hold on Britain Tarr artfully depicted in Rite of Conquest (2004), is gone; his son and heir Red William now determines to eliminate the magic that figured in his father's reign but is now a waning force. The consequent decline throughout the land throws Britain's fate into the hands of the Otherworld, in which the Old Things struggle to right things despite "stretches of emptiness where earth and water and air were deadly to anything made of magic." Can the imprisoned Scottish princess, Edith, and the Conqueror's youngest son, Henry, bring forth magical powers to save the land from pestilence? Tarr continues to blend meticulous historical research and character-driven adventure fantasy so as to satisfy her present fans and garner new ones. Whitney Scott
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