The Queen's Bastard by C E Murphy
Wow. C. E. Murphy is good. Court intrigue in an alternate Elizabethan-era fantasy world: realpolitik with the sex included.-Kate Elliott, author of Crown of Stars In a world where religion has ripped apart the old order, Belinda Primrose is the queen's secret weapon. The unacknowledged daughter of Lorraine, the first queen to sit on the Aulunian throne, Belinda has been trained as a spy since the age of twelve by her father, Lorraine's lover and spymaster. Cunning and alluring, fluent in languages and able to take on any persona, Belinda can infiltrate the glittering courts of Echon where her mother's enemies conspire. She can seduce at will and kill if she must. But Belinda's spying takes a new twist when her witchlight appears. Now Belinda's powers are unlike anything Lorraine could have imagined. They can turn an obedient daughter into a rival who understands that anything can be hers, including the wickedly sensual Javier, whose throne Lorraine both covets and fears. But Javier is also witchbreed, a man whose ability rivals Belinda's own . . . and can be just as dangerous. Amid court intrigue and magic, loyalty and love can lead to more daring passions, as Belinda discovers that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. C. E. Murphy vividly reimagines Renaissance Europe as a world both familiar and strange. Filled with intrigue and betrayal, her story is a chess game with six of seven sides, and I look forward to seeing what the next moves are.
-Marie Brennan, author of Warrior and Witch
Zina Hutton once leapt out of a window to avoid ballet class in the Virgin Islands when she was a child. She's now a speculative fiction author who, whenever inspiration hits, dives headfirst into new stories and universes. Zina lives in sweltering South Florida, where she never leaves home without a notebook and her prized Kindles. Zina works as a marketing assistant, but she's also a published author, with non-fiction in Fireside Fiction, Anathema Magazine, The Mary Sue, Strange Horizons, ComicsAlliance, and Women Write About Comics, as well as many short tales in other publications.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780345494641 |
| ISBN 10 | 0345494644 |
| Title | The Queen's Bastard |
| Author | C E Murphy |
| Series | Inheritors' Cycle Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2008-04-29 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |