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The Charnel Prince (Paperback)

By: Greg Keyes (Author)

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"This is a wonderful story full of mystery and written in an elegant style....I really want to read the next book soon."

"...[F]resh and imaginative....Keyes's lyricism, pacing and deft handling of eternally important topics--the dance between church and state, man and woman, life and death--make this a thought-provoking entertainment."

"Keyes's world is rich, detailed, and always believable; the twisty plot is delightful and frightening by turns; the magical and religious systems are particularly innovative. But Keyes excels most of all in his characters, who again and again demonstrate unexpected depths and surprising motivations. It is the people that propel the story here, not vast forces of fate and destiny acting on people, and that is enough to make this far more, and far better, than Just Another Epic Fantasy."

First line

'I hear a noise,' Martyn murmured, reining in his dapled gray stallion. 'It is an unnatural sound.'

Publisher's note

When the legendary Briar King awoke from his slumber, a season of darkness and horror fell upon the Kingdom of Crotheny. Now countless breeds of unspeakable monsters roam the countryside. An epidemic of madness has transformed peaceful villagers from the wildlands into savage, flesh-eating fiends. In Eslen, King William has been murdered, Queen Muriele is stalked by treachery on every side, and their last surviving daughter, Anne, has fled the assassins bent on destroying her family.

Close on the heels of the runaway princess, young knight Neil MeqVren, the queen’s one trusted ally, is sworn to rescue Anne from her murderous pursuers. Anne herself undertakes a perilous journey toward the sanctuary of her distant paramour’s arms, but along the way lie the sinister agents and hidden snares of a sprawling conspiracy that few might hope to evade.

At the same time, spies in the service of Praifec Hespero, the powerful Churchman, embark upon a mission to destroy the Briar King in the heart of his domain. And the power-hungry Church, spurred on by the mystical events, has launched an inquisition whose repercussions threaten even the queen. As the noose of intrigue tightens across the land, personal fates and a kingdom’s destiny alike will be decided in a conflict between virtue and malevolence, might and magic.

Here then is Book II of The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone: intoxicating and harrowing, passionate and grand–it is Greg Keyes’s most ambitiously imagined and vividly rendered work of epic fantasy.

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Doom approaches in this work of high fantasy, the second in the Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone series. The kingdom of Crotheny is on the brink of civil war. Assassins have murdered the king and his two older daughters. The mysterious Briar King has awakened from a long slumber, and now walks abroad, turning innocent villagers into horrid monsters. Prophecy suggests that the remaining princess, Anne Dare, is essential to ensuring humanity's survival--but is it her life or her death that will bring that about?

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