What do you do when your family has been declared traitors to the Crown, your mother and father are killed in a rebellion, and your estate confiscated?
If you’re the sons of Riven kan Ingan—sellsword’s son and Francovian warlord—you do the only things you can: flee the country and wait to grow up and take your revenge.
In Barbarian Blood Royal, the fourth in the Chronicles of Riven the Heretic, that’s exactly what the boys do. Being young (the eldest not quite twenty-one, the youngest barely nine) and until this moment war-virgins all (eldest son Val was scheduled to receive his knight’s gauntlets that ill-fated Spring), the five bury their parents and split up, each going to a different country, in hopes that way some will survive. Riven’s son and heir Val heads to Ghermia, the country where his mother was born, only to be attacked and left for dead by the King’s Black Shields who track him through the mountains. Surviving but badly wounded, he’s nursed back to health by a beautiful but deadly creature called a Stroilika…a forest witch…and she wants Val for purposes all her own…
Twins Hroric and Shael head East into the country of Chaleit, where no one asks questions of two identical strangers. There, they find not only deadly magic but love waiting in the form of twin female thieves…
Riven’s bastard son, the soldier-priest Ilke, takes Merigan and travels through the freezing blizzards of the Snow King into the deserts of Izhmir, where Ilke must make a heartbreaking decision concerning his little brother. When temptation comes in the shape of a beautiful village girl, he faces his own doubts as to why he became a priest…
In their new roles in new lands, they grow into men, make friends, establish families and put down roots, but always…in the back of each mind…the desire for revenge glows like a never-dying coal…
This series, the fourth in the rise of the kan Ingans to become the dynasty ruling the Emeraunt Galaxy and the plant Arcanis, sets the stage for my later series The kan Ingan Archives. It’s medieval in tone, a romantic fantasy in which love and war, revenge and hope all play important parts, where sacrifices are made through love so a family line may continue. There are plenty of action, adventure, and love scenes enough to satisfy the most romantic. It’s be available summer, 2011. I think you’ll like it. Other entries in the series are available at: http://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/
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