Publisher's Synopsis
- New novel in P.C. Hodgell's Kencyrath series, and sequel toHonor's Paradox.
- Kothifir the Great, ruled by an obscenely obese god-king, peopled withcolorful, dueling guilds, guarded by the Southern Host of the Kencyrath. Here,Jame arrives, only to find that the turbulent city claims more of her attentionas the Talisman than the Host's training fields do as a second year randoncadet. In order to save the present, Jame must search the past, be it fifteenyears ago when as a boy her brother Torisen arrived here, unknown and unwanted,or three thousand years ago when the Wastes were a great sea ringed with richcivilizations.
