ISBN: 9798996991952 - the sea-begotten (4 resultados)

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A world on the edge. A child gone missing. A war waiting to begin.South Wales, AD 51. Antonia crosses the sea to seal an alliance Rome believes it has already won - a Roman bride for a king the empire calls tame. The first thing her new country shows her is a dead man staked at the tideline, wearing a strip of cloth from her own wedding chest.Beyond the river waits a land Rome's mapmakers left blank: a drowned country of tides and hidden roads, of a people who keep no law but the law of the hearth - and who are done giving their children to the sea, to the legions, or to anyone else.When a child goes missing, the fragile peace between two ways of ruling begins to come apart, and everyone - bride, king, queen, and household - must decide what they will spend to bring their own home.'Neither cruelty nor clemency changed them.' - Tacitus, on the SiluresA literary historical epic of household and covenant, of what a crown keeps and what it relinquishes, and of what it costs, in any age, to come home changed. First in a new series from the author of In Her Own Hand.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A world on the edge. A child gone missing. A war waiting to begin.South Wales, AD 51. Antonia crosses the sea to seal an alliance Rome believes it has already won - a Roman bride for a king the empire calls tame. The first thing her new country shows her is a dead man staked at the tideline, wearing a strip of cloth from her own wedding chest.Beyond the river waits a land Rome's mapmakers left blank: a drowned country of tides and hidden roads, of a people who keep no law but the law of the hearth - and who are done giving their children to the sea, to the legions, or to anyone else.When a child goes missing, the fragile peace between two ways of ruling begins to come apart, and everyone - bride, king, queen, and household - must decide what they will spend to bring their own home."Neither cruelty nor clemency changed them." - Tacitus, on the SiluresA literary historical epic of household and covenant, of what a crown keeps and what it relinquishes, and of what it costs, in any age, to come home changed. First in a new series from the author of In Her Own Hand. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A world on the edge. A child gone missing. A war waiting to begin.South Wales, AD 51. Antonia crosses the sea to seal an alliance Rome believes it has already won - a Roman bride for a king the empire calls tame. The first thing her new country shows her is a dead man staked at the tideline, wearing a strip of cloth from her own wedding chest.Beyond the river waits a land Rome's mapmakers left blank: a drowned country of tides and hidden roads, of a people who keep no law but the law of the hearth - and who are done giving their children to the sea, to the legions, or to anyone else.When a child goes missing, the fragile peace between two ways of ruling begins to come apart, and everyone - bride, king, queen, and household - must decide what they will spend to bring their own home."Neither cruelty nor clemency changed them." - Tacitus, on the SiluresA literary historical epic of household and covenant, of what a crown keeps and what it relinquishes, and of what it costs, in any age, to come home changed. First in a new series from the author of In Her Own Hand. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…