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Lord of the Fire Lands
The Gilded Chain
Sky of Swords
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AvonEos, Oct. 1999
0-380-97461-4 (hc)
0-380-79127-7 (pb) (Sept. 2000)
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Avon, Nov. 1998
0-380-97460-6 (hc)
0-380-79126-9 (pb)
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AvonEos, Oct. 2000
0-380-97462-2 (hc)
The King's Blades
The grim school of Ironhall takes in unwanted, rebellious boys and five years later sends forth the finest swordsmen in the world, the King of Chivial's Blades. Bound to absolute loyalty by a magical sword-stroke through their hearts, they stand ready to defend the King or whomever else he designates against all perils, whether human or sorcerous.
Each book in this trilogy stands alone, but together they make a larger story.
Lord of the Fire Lands is neither a sequel nor a prequel. Because most of the action overlaps the first book in time, I call it a "paraquel". King Ambrose and Durendal make brief appearances, but the main characters are two young men we first meet in Ironhall as Candidate Wasp and Candidate Raider. Neither quite fits the pattern for a would-be Blade, and when the King arrives to harvest the latest crop of seniors and proposes to bind those two to his service, the traditions break down. Ancient secrets are revealed and suddenly danger threatens, right there in Ironhall.
