The Dowry Blade

Cherry Potts

Trust anyone, even your enemies

Trust no one, not even your friends.

ISBN:
Print: 9781909208209
ePub: 9781909208216
Mobi/Kindle: 9781909208223

Format: Royal 234x156mm

Voices rose suddenly and Brede felt the thrum in the earth of approaching horses.  At last, here was Luce come to carry off Ivo’s horses, so that he must follow and be ‘captured’ and taken away as her hand mate.

Laughter erupted in the circle as Ivo leapt to his feet with a whoop, eager to follow his lover and start his captivity.  His next kin and the closest of his band of friends scurried after him, all of them mounted in a few moments, and rode a wide sweep about the fire before heading out into the darkness…

Into darkness and a flurry of arrows.

Ivo’s whooping turned abruptly to a choking anguish.

Horses screamed, men and women shouted, the child-herd’s shrieks took on a horrific tone and the half-light filled with shadows and the sudden flicker of falling death.

 

Nine years after the loss of her sister, and the near obliteration of her clan, Brede, a Plains nomad, is living unwillingly in the marshes. The sudden ending of a decade long drought, brings with it many changes; rumour has it that the rain was bought at the price of a king’s head, and the sword needed for such a sacrifice is missing.

Change comes for Brede with the arrival of Tegan, a wounded mercenary.

Brede’s discovery, first of the Dowry Blade and a stolen horse, and then of Tegan’s history, sets in train a journey to the capital in search of her missing sister and leads to an unexpected role in the Queen’s household, and a powerful lover.

A lesbian fantasy epic of the strength and limitations of love and loyalty: between friends, lovers, kin, strangers– and enemies.