Tyrant's Blood (Valisar Trilogy) - Softcover

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9780732281786: Tyrant's Blood (Valisar Trilogy)

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ISBN 10: 0732281784 ISBN 13: 9780732281786

'this series may be her best yet' THE AGE The Denova Empire is flourishing under Loethar's rule as he urges the invading people of the Steppes to integrate with the West. But Loethar is bored - as is Leo, the self-proclaimed true king, living in hiding, but eager to claim the Valisar throne. Freath keeps his own secrets while working as sage counsel to the Empire. But when he risks all to contact the rebel, Kilt Faris, his life may be forfeit. A new evil is stirring, and there is only one who knows that the legendary Valisar Enchantment is rising. The wars and destruction of the empire will seem a squabble in comparison to the darkness that threatens ...* * * 'an imaginative world-builder ...brims with complex characters, carefully laid intrigues and hair-raising violence' THE AGE 'adventure epic with a voice of its own ...McIntosh pulls no punches' memorabletv.com

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‘It’s a “just one more chapter” sort of book. Don’t start reading in the evening if you have to get up early the next morning’
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From the Back Cover:

The second book in the breathtaking epic fantasy of heritage, vengeance, and destiny

A decade has passed since the barbarian Loethar brutally conquered the last remaining, most powerful realm in the Denova Set--though the coveted Valisar Enchantment, the irresistible ability to coerce and control, eludes him still. Ten years since the warlord butchered the Set's royals and feasted on their blood.

But he did not kill them all.

Having secretly escaped Loethar's wrath, the young Valisar prince Leonel has grown to manhood under the protection of the notorious highwayman Kilt Faris. Now the boy king wants more than his rightful throne of Penraven--he wants revenge. But not all of enslaved Penraven wishes for Leonel's rule; indeed, Loethar has spent the past ten years uniting the Set's realms into a peaceful, prosperous empire. And unbeknownst to all, the true inheritor of the Valisar Enchantment is awakening--and a dark threat, far more sinister than even the invasion of the barbarian horde a decade earlier, is poised to threaten the Crown and reveal the most shocking Valisar secret of all.

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