The King's Peace
Jo Walton
Tor Books, 2002
ISBN:0765343274
Sulian ap Gwien was seventeen when the Jarnish raiders came. Had she been armed when they
found her, she could have taken them all. As it was, it took six of them to subdue her. She will
never forgive them.
Thus begins her story--a story that takes her back to her family, with its ancient ties to the
Vincan empire that once ruled in Tir Tanagiri, and forward to Caer Tanaga, where the greatest
man of his time, King Urdo, struggles to bind together the squabbling nobles and petty princes
into a unified force that will drive out the barbarian invader and restore the King's Peace.
Ringing with the clash of arms and the songs of its people, rich with high magic and everyday
life, The King's Peace begins an epic of great deeds and down-to-earth people, told in language
with the strength and flexibility of sharpened steel.
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