HIS CONQUERING SWORD
(The novels of the Jaran: Book 3)
Kate Elliott
DAW Books, 1993
ISBN:0-88677-551-5 (paperback)
WHEN CONQUERORS CLASH--On the planet Rhui, the jaran tribes, under the
leadership of Ilya Bakhtiian have ranged far intheir
campaign to subjugate all who will not willingly
yield to their rule. Yet even as theyprepare to besiege
the royal city of Karkand, many another battle is
being waged on a far more personal--and perhaps a
more important--scale. For Ilya is married to
Tess Soerensen, a woman born not on Rhui
but on Earth, and a woman, too, who is the only heir to
Charles Soerensen, leader of the failed rebellion
against the alien Chapalii empire and now a duke of that same Empire.
And Charles has come to Rhui for two reasons: to
reclaim his sister, and to decipher long hidden and invaluable data about the Mushai,
the legendary Chapalii who once led his own
rebellion against the Empire.
But Tess has no desire to become anyone's puppet, and unless
the three can make their own private
peace and agree upon a common strategy
for conquest, what hope do they have of overthrowing
an Empire that was thriving before humans learned to walk erect?
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