Sulien 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.
King Urdo will change Sulien's life. She
will see him for what he is: the greatest hope the country has. And he
will see her for what she is: the greatest warrior of her day. Together
they will fight and suffer for an age of the world, for the things that
the world always needs and which never last.
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.
"Walton writes with an authenticity that never loses heart, a rare
combination in a genre where we are so often offered one or the other. The King's Peace
is a proof that no matter how mined-out a subject may seen, a dedicated
writer can dig down to a true vein of legend and hammer out gold." – Robin Hobb
"Beautifully and thought-provokingly tells a story
set in a world and a history almost like ours, but different enough to
be in itself a kind of elvenland. It's good to know that there will be
more." – Poul Anderson
