In A Garden Burning Gold

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Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver meets Game of Thrones in a mesmerising and unputdownable Balkan fantasy novel of family and survival from the instant New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls. Rhea and her twin brother, Lexos, have spent an eternity using cunning and magic to help rule their small, unstable country. Rhea controls the seasons to show favor to their most loyal stewards with bountiful harvests and short winters, while Lexos keeps the tides strong and impassable to maintain the countrys borders. Reigning over them both is their father, who holds dominion over death, using his most powerful weaponfearto keep the people, and his children, in line. For a hundred years, Rhea and Lexos have been each others only ally, defending themselves and their younger siblings against their fathers increasingly unpredictable anger while also trying to keep up the appearance of unity and prosperity within their borders. Now, with an independence movement gaining ground, other nations jockeying for power, and their fathers iron grip weakening, the twins must take matters into their own hands to keep the world from crashing down around them. But as Rhea and Lexos travel beyond the security of their home to try to save their family, they begin to draw very different conclusions about their fathers style of rule. And if the siblings arent careful, theyll end up facing each other on the battlefield. In a Garden Burning Gold is a captivating saga of love and legacy that explores the limits of power and the bonds of familyand how far both can be bent before they break. N° de ref. del artículo GOR012190038

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Acerca del autor: Rory Power is the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls and Burn Our Bodies Down. She grew up in New England, where she lives and works as a crime fiction editor and story consultant for TV adaptation. She received a Masters in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia, and thinks fondly of her time there, partially because she learned a lot but mostly because there were a ton of bunnies on campus. She tweets @itsrorypower