About the Book
THE STRANGEST CIVIL WAR NOVEL YOU EVER READ!
When Avram became King of Detina, he declared he intended to liberate
the blond serfs from their ties to the land. The northern provinces,
where most of the serfs lived, would not accept his lordship. The hot
north was a land of broad estates, whose noble overlords took the serfs' labor and gave back next to nothing. Those provinces left Detina,
choosing Avram's cousin, Grand Duke Geoffrey, as their king in his
place.
Avram said he had inherited all of the kingdom, not just a part. He
refused to let Geoffrey rule the north without a challenge. And the
southron provinces, full of merchants and smallholders stood solidly
behind him. So he sent armies clad in gray against the north. Geoffrey
raised his own army, and arrayed his men in blue made from the indigo
much raised on northern estates to distinguish them from the southrons.
Avram held the larger part of the kingdom, and the wealthier part, too.
But Geoffrey's men were bolder soldiers. And the north, taken all in
all, had better wizards than the southrons did. The war raged for almost three years, until Avram's General named Guildenstern and his great
lieutenant, Doubting George, moved against the northern army under Count Thraxton the Braggart and his commander of unicorn-riders, Ned of the
Forest, which held the town of Rising Rock, close by Sentry Peak...
