Treason in Eswy
"The prince has... there has been an accident, a terrible accident.
Crown Prince Lovell is dead, Princess." I found myself sitting on the
floor with my skirts in a heap around me... The sea, I thought. I hear
the sea. Lovell had promised me that before I went up to Dunmorra to be
married in the autumn, he would steal me away for a day of freedom. We
would take a boat down to the sea and fish for sole over the sandbars.
That was when I started to scream.
The murder of
Eleanor's brother leaves her the sole heir to the crown of Eswy, a pawn
in the struggle for power between different religious and political
alliances. With her father a prisoner, Eleanor flees her mother's
schemes to marry her off to her cousin and finds herself hunted through
the wilderness, facing treachery on all sides. Maurey, the hero of
Nightwalker, and his friend, the Fen witch and warrior Korby, are
summoned back from a mission overseas to find and protect the princess.
Once a scullion and a fugitive, Maurey is now a young man of
considerable status and power, a Nightwalker warlock in charge of his
human brother's intelligence network. The mysterious symbol of the
Yehillon seems to point to a conspiracy against both Dunmorra and the
hidden Nightwalker kingdom of Talverdin, a conspiracy into which
Eleanor has stumbled. While the two human kingdoms of the island are
threatened with tyranny and Talverdin itself with annihilation, Maurey
and Eleanor struggle to unravel the plots that threaten the princess's
life and the peace of the three kingdoms.
K. V. Johansen
K. V. Johansen (born 1968) was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where she developed her lifelong fascination with fantasy literature after reading The Lord of the Rings at the age of eight. Her interest in the history and languages of the Middle Ages led her to take a Master’s Degree in Medieval Studies at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, and a second M.A. in English Literature at McMaster University, where she wrote her thesis on Layamon’s Brut, an Early Middle English epic poem. While spending most of her time writing, she retains her interest in medieval history and languages and is a member of the SFWA and the Writers’ Union of Canada. In 2014, she was an instructor at the Science Fiction Foundation’s Masterclass in Literary Criticism held in London. Various of her books have been translated into French, Macedonian, and Danish.
The Warlocks of Talverdin
The Warlocks of Talverdin consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
