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By Guy Gavriel Kay

For the Northern mercenary referred to as Blaise, it all started with the dying of a king and betrayal within the type of a peace treaty. Wandering in self-imposed exile, he could trip to the dominion of Arbonne, the place the courtroom of affection made warriors bow to troubadours, and a well-sung ballad was once valued as hugely as a skillfully swung sword. yet Arbonne used to be a stricken realm, torn via an historical feud among its strongest dukes and coveted as a prize via the land within which Blaise himself had grown to manhood. And no one—except might be Arbonne’s goddess—could forsee that one Northern mercenary may possibly develop into the most important to Arbonne’s destiny....

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