From Publishers Weekly
A small band of rebels attempts to overcome a tyranny of church and corrupt nobility in the rousing and tragic conclusion to Kurtz's fourth Deryni trilogy. When Marek of Festil, the bastard son of Gwynedd's last Deryni king, makes a move to gain the throne, the ruling council reluctantly allows King Rhys Michael to meet the challenge. (Having held the young man and his wife, Michaela, in their grip since arranging the deaths of his two older brothers, the nobles and high churchmen fear an assertion of independence before the king fathers a second child to assure the succession.) As Rhys Michael travels to Culliecairn to meet with Marek, another group of the now-proscribed Deryni seek to awaken the psychic powers of the king and queen through Michaela's young maid, Liesel. With strong characterizations and sustained tension, this volume once again reflects the atmospheric gloom of a dark and secret land, full of treachery and cruelty but shot through with light and a promise of hope.
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From Library Journal
An unexpected threat to the throne of Gwynedd affords puppet-king Rhys Michael Haldane a rare opportunity to assert his independence from the self-serving council of regents who hold him in thrall. His actions, and his growing realization of his own innate gifts, initiate a chain of circumstances that heralds the beginning of a new age for a beleaguered land. As in her other Deryni novels (Deryni Magic, Ballantine, 1991), Kurtz portrays credible characters caught in a struggle to remain true both to themselves and their faith amid a tangle of betrayal and intrigue. Fastidious attention to period detail and a knack for empathic storytelling have won the author a sizable readership, and her latest effort will not disappoint her fans. Purchase where the series is popular.
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by Katherine Kurtz
by Katherine Kurtz
by Katherine Kurtz
by Katherine Kurtz
by Katherine Kurtz
