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A Tremor in the Bitter Earth
Copyright © 1999 by Katya Reimann
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The Tielmaran Chronicles, Book 2
Hardcover - 377 pages (1998)
Tor Books; ISBN 0-312-86008-0
Paperback - 379 pages (1999)
Tor Books; ISBN 0-812-54934-1
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
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The highly satisfactory sequel to Wind From a Foreign Sky. Readers will
quickly and pleasurably find plenty of action, complex but plausible
motivation and characterization, and well-done world building in the second
Tielmaran Chronicle.
--Booklist
Reimann provides a very different set of magically linked twins, not to mention the
paradoxically idealistic young assassin, as a highly entertaining contrast. The
whole is a rousing, and very readable, fantasy adventure that largely stands alone,
while leaving plenty of room for more, much anticipated, adventures.
--LOCUS
The ever-more-tangled plot moves swiftly along. . . . There's clearly plenty of
story remaining to be told in the richly detailed world Reimann has created.
--Publishers Weekly
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Katya Reimann, a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer,
returns to the enthralling, vivid world of Wind from a Foreign Sky,
once again sweeping us along with a deft tale of powerful magic, breathtaking
adventure, and deep political intrigue.
Gaultry Blas is a young woman with a knowledge of woods magic and a special bond to
the glamour magic of the twin goddesses who bless the Principality of Tielmark.
She has saved her land from subversion by the scheming agents of the Bissanty
Empire, from which Tielmark has won a tenuous independence.
As she, her twin sister Mervion, and the Tielmaran court convene to celebrate the
most sacred of Tielmark's ceremonies--the renewal of the blood-bond between Prince
Benet, the twin goddesses, and the land--the short lived peace is shattered by a
horrifying betrayal crafted by the dark magic of Bissanty assassins.
The assassins have already killed members of the Common Brood--families whose blood
has a prophetic tie to the Prince's throne. But these murders are a mere shadow of
what is to come when Gaultry captures the young assassin, Tullier Sha Muira.
Magically subduing Tullier, Gaultry bonds him with her glamour soul to prevent him
from killing himself before he can reveal his Bissanty masters' secrets.
When Martin Stalker, the dispossessed noble who once saved Gaultry's life, is lured
away by the threat of violence to his estranged wife, it's up to Gaultry, with the
help of the furious assassin Tullier in her precarious hold, to head deep into the
heartlands of the bitter earth of Bissanty, seeking to save him, their loved ones,
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