A magnificent epic tale of devotion, possession, obsession, and strange
destiny from the author of the Hugo Award-winning
Paladin of Souls
Lois McMaster Bujold
The half-mad Prince Boleso has been slain by a noblewoman he had
intended to defile -- and Lord Ingrey kin Wilfcliff must transport the
body to its burial place and the accused killer, the Lady Ijada, to
judgment. With the death of the old Hallow King imminent and the crown
in play, the road they must travel together is a dangerous one. And
though he is duty-bound to deliver his prisoner to an almost certain
death, Ijada may be the only one Ingrey dares trust. For a monstrous
malevolence holds the haunted lord in its sway -- and a great and
terrible destiny has been bestowed upon him by the gods, the damned, and
the dead.