A Rising Moon

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Leigh  is a Cincinnati-based, award-winning author with nineteen science fiction novels and over forty short stories published. He has been a frequent contributor to the Hugo-nominated shared world series  Wild Cards , edited by George R. R. Martin. He teaches creative writing at Northern Kentucky University. Stephen Leigh has written  Immortal Muse, The Crow of Connemara,  and the fantasy trilogy  Assassin's Dawn . Klappentext The second novel in this gripping historical fantasy series, set in an alternate first-century Britain, follows Orla Paorach, freedom fighter and daughter of a Boudica-like warrior. "Orla! Hurry, girl! You must come with me!" Orla Paorach's life was overturned for the first time when her mother Voada was beaten senseless, and Orla was taken by Bakir, a minor Mundoan army officer, as his second wife. Now her world is shattered a second time: Bakir has died in battle, and so has her mother, now known as the Mad Draoi of the Cateni. Orla flees northward to Onglse, the island home of the draoi that is the center of the Cateni rebellion against the Mundoa. She becomes quickly embroiled in battle as well as deceptions from both sides of the conflict, as everyone expects that she's come to take up her mother's mantle. Those who knew her mother offer their help, but can she trust any of them? Can she avoid becoming the Mad Draoi herself, lost in the magic her mother once tried to wield? An intense, fast-paced novel, A Rising Moon explores trust, courage, and the deep seduction of power. 1 The Acolyte   Often enough, Orla wondered why she'd ever bothered to come to Onglse. The opportunity to go to the island home of the draoi was the culmination of an impossible dream, a path she'd been destined to take from the moment back in Pencraig when she'd realized that-like her mother Voada-she could see the ghosts of the dead. The soldiers' wives in the Mundoan army encampments had spoken of how Voada was an awful monster, how she'd been trained on Onglse before she'd taken on (or stolen, depending on who was telling the story) the title of ceanndraoi, joining with Ceannˆrd Maol Iosa to lead the rebellion against the Mundoa. Together, Voada and Maol had laid waste to the Mundoan settlements south of the River Meadham. The camp wives had hated Voada-even those, like Azru, who had some sympathy for the Cateni. They hated that she had killed so many of their husbands and sons. In turn, most of them also hated Orla simply for being Voada's daughter. Still, like all the Cateni attempts to throw off the yoke of Mundoan rule south of the River Meadham, Voada's war was ultimately a blood-drenched failure. It had been close to a year since Orla and Sorcha had crossed the River Meadham into Albann Brˆghad. Orla's eighteenth birthday had passed unremarked. Orla had heard the tales of Ceanndraoi Voada whispered everywhere: in stories, in poems, in songs. She'd listened to the wondrous, contradictory, and still-growing legend of her mother hands upon hands of times, from hand upon hands of mouths, in every clan house she'd visited. Orla was hardly able to reconcile the fierce, vengeful, and merciless Voada they described with the woman she'd once called Mother. Her mother was now famous, if not universally beloved, while Orla was a burnished copper mirror reflecting a warped image of that maternal fame. The northern Cateni passed her carefully from clan ˆrd to clan ˆrd, pretending to be pleased to meet the famous Voada's daughter but heaving a sigh of relief when they sent her on her way again, as if they'd somehow escaped contagion or attack. For nearly half a year, Orla and Sorcha passed from village to village, always hearing the words, "Oh, you must go on to Onglse. You need to speak with Ceanndraoi Greum. He'll be able to help you. We wish we could, but we...

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Leigh
• Publisher: Daw
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.11.2018
• EAN: 9780756411206
• ISBN: 978-0-7564-1120-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 208 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Sunpath
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy