After a lifetime locked in his tower room, Sarmin has come into his own. He is the crowned emperor; he has wed Mesema of the horse tribes; the pattern master is dead. Everything should be happy ever after. But war ignites in the north, and in the palace, Sarmin's new baby brother is seen as a threat to Mesema's unborn child. Scheming courtiers surround the peta; throne, and when a peace envoy is invited, their plots blossom. Sarmin has no royal assassin as proof against their treachery no one to whom he can give the twisted knife. Those who Sarmin saved from the pattern-master's curse, unsure how to live without the many, turn to mogyrk, the god of their ancient foe, for comfort. And Sarmin has not been left alone; the remnants of the many haunt his thoughts and he hears their voices in the darkness of his room. The worst damage left by the pattern-master is about to take Sarmin unawares.
Series:
The tower and knife trilogy ; bk. 2. Williams, Mazarkis. Tower and knife trilogy ; bk. 2.
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