In this blistering new novel from visionary author John Jantunen, three young men with a history of violence are on a collision course set against the idyllic backdrop of northern Ontario's cottage country. Rene Descartes, a recently released ex-con, is living in a ramshackle trailer only a short d
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โ Scribed by Tanya Huff
- Book ID
- 110539187
- Publisher
- Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 362 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781625671240
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Having offered sanctuary to the soul of the man who stole her brother's body, Vree heads north to Shkoder with two kigh struggling to co-exist in a single body. Although the odds aren't in their favour, there's a chance, a small chance, the Bards can find Gyhard a body of his own without anyone else having to die. But Vree was an assassin train to kill on command, Gyhard has chosen to kill again and again on a quest for immortality, and the Bards aren't certain which of them is the more dangerous. No one, from the guard on the Citadel gate to the King himself, wants them anywhere near the single Healer who can Sing the Fifth Kigh.
No one except Magda, the Healer, whose heritage has taught her that things are not always as they seem.
In the end, Bardic suspicion becomes the least of Vree's problems. The dead walk in the mountains of Shkoder, kigh confined in rotting corpses, and Gyhard's past returned to haunt them. Hunted by the Bards and the Healer's family, Vree, Gyhard...
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