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Paladin of Souls: A Novel (Chalion Book 2)

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Lois McMaster Bujold・・Ended

Updated: October 13, 2009

Content length: 496 pages

language: English

Source: amazon

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One of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold transports us once more to a dark and troubled land and embroils us in a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm. Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family's castle of Valenda. Her newfound freedom is costly, bittersweet with memories, regrets, and guilty secrets -- for she knows the truth of what brought her land to the brink of destruction. And now the road -- escape -- beckons. . . . A simple pilgrimage, perhaps. Quite fitting for the Dowager Royina of all Chalion. Yet something else is free, too -- something beyond deadly. To the north lies the vital border fortress of Porifors. Memories linger there as well, of wars and invasions and the mighty Golden General of Jokona. And someone, something, watches from across that border -- humans, demons, gods. Ista thinks her little party of pilgrims wanders at will. But whose? When Ista's retinue is unexpectedly set upon not long into its travels, a mysterious ally appears -- a warrior nobleman who fights like a berserker. The temporary safety of her enigmatic champion's castle cannot ease Ista's mounting dread, however, when she finds his dark secrets are entangled with hers in a net of the gods' own weaving.

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Three years after breaking free from the curse of madness that caged her, Dowager Royina Ista thought freedom was hers to claim. But destiny is never a simple "escape." When the former queen sets out on a pilgrimage, her path doesn’t just traverse dust and roads—it treads on a web woven long ago by the gods.

To the north, the fortress of Porifors holds echoes of war; beyond the border, eyes linger in the shadows—human, demon, or the inscrutable gods themselves? A sudden attack throws a mysterious, berserker-like warrior into her journey, and the dark secrets of his castle twist into the guilt she’s buried deep. Ista thinks she’s choosing her way, but she’s long been a pawn of the divine—just as she was when her land teetered on ruin three years before.

This isn’t mere fantasy. It’s the clash of freedom and fate, of personal regret against the will of gods. And Lois McMaster Bujold—legendary winner of Hugos and Nebulas—proves once more that in her worlds, even the gods’ games brim with the raw, unyielding light of humanity.