Book Haul: The Emperor’s Knife (Tower and Knife Trilogy #1) by Mazarkis Williams
Book Haul: The Emperor's Knife @Mazarkis_W @NightShadeNews
Book Haul from the past week. Did a little shopping the past week or so and picked up some great books. I have been wanting to read this book and start this series for a while now. Looks like some awesome stuff. Can’t wait to read and review!
The Emperors Knife by Mazarkis Williams is out NOW!
So go get a copy!
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About the book:
BUY HERE: The Emperors Knife by Mazarkis Williams
- Series: Tower and Knife (Book 1)
- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Night Shade Books (December 27, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1597803847
- ISBN-13: 978-1597803847
There is a cancer at the heart of the mighty Cerani Empire: a plague that marks each victim with a fragment of a greater design. Geometric patterns spread across the skin, until the victim dies in agony or becomes a Carrier, doing the bidding of an evil intelligence.
The lost prince Sarmin, the emperor’s only surviving brother, lies locked in a hidden room. As the pattern draws closer to the palace he is at last remembered: now he awaits a bride, Mesema, a Windreader from the northern plains. She is accustomed to riding free across the grasslands and finds the Imperial Court stifling, but she soon realizes the politicking is not a game. It is in deadly earnest.
Eyul, the imperial assassin, is burdened by the atrocities he has committed. As commanded, he bears the emperor’s Knife to the desert in search of a cure for the pattern-markings.
As long-planned conspiracies boil over into open violence, the enemy moves towards victory. Now only three people stand in his way: a lost prince, a world-weary killer, and a young girl from the steppes who saw a path in a pattern once, among the waving grasses.
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About the author:
Mazarkis Williams is a writer with roots in both the US and the UK, having worked in and been educated in both countries. Each year is divided between Boston and Bristol and a teleport booth is always top of the Christmas wish-list.
Mazarkis has degrees in history and physics, and a diverse set of interests accumulated while mispending a hectic youth. Cooking has always been a passion, and in addition to feeding six children and a sizeable herd of cats, Mazarkis regularly caters for crowds of permanently hungry friends.
The Emperor’s Knife is Mazarkis’ first novel.
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