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THE TIDE LORDS: BOOK ONE From the bestselling author of Medalon and Wolfblade comes an outstanding new epic fantasy quartet. 'He's insisting he's a tide Lord and he's begging us to try again ... to kill him, that is.' When a routine hanging goes wrong, the survivor announces he is Cayal the Immortal Prince, a tide Lord. However, the only known record of the immortal beings of Amyrantha is the tide Lord tarot ... and everyone knows it is just a parlour-game, an amusement. Arkady Desean, an expert on the legends of the Crasii - a part-animal, part-human race - is sent to interrogate Cayal. But, in exposing this would-be immortal, Arkady's own web of deceit threatens to unravel. Nothing is really as it seems around the Immortal Prince. the lies seem plausible, his stories improbable ... and the truth is more than any of them bargained for.

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First of a new doorstopper fantasy series from the Australian author of Warlord (2006).On Amyrantha, magic swings through thousand-year cycles; when the immortal Tide Lords reach the height of their powers, they invariably quarrel and fight and heedlessly destroy human civilization. Now, at low tide, the powerless Lords have faded into myth and only the Cabal of the Tarot remembers the danger they represent. Lord Cayal, utterly bored and despairing of eternal life, comes to Lebec and murders seven people, knowing he faces beheading as punishment. (He'll grow a new head, of course, but it won't contain any of Cayal's memories.) Unfortunately for Cayal, it's the headsman's day off, so he's hanged instead - and, several agonizing hours later, he's as good as new, with his memories intact. However, the King's Spymaster arranges for physician-historian Arkady Desean to interrogate Cayal and disprove his claims of immortality. Not wishing to torture the prisoner in case he's a foreign citizen, Arkady encourages Cayal to tell her his story. Meanwhile, confined in a cell opposite, Warlock, a dangerously independent Crasii (of mixed human and dog ancestry, bred to serve the Tide Lords, now enslaved to humans) knows Cayal is what he claims. As Arkady probes Cayal's past, so her own circumstances (she's low-born, her husband is gay and will never help produce the heir demanded by the king) slowly unravel.Convincing in broad outline, though the details don't bear close scrutiny: a modestly gratifying yarn for readers desiring to settle in for the long haul. (Kirkus Reviews)

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Jennifer Fallon, is the bestselling author of the Hythrun Chronicles, the Second Sons Trilogy and the Tide Lords. She has also co-authored books and short stories for the Stargate TV series. She lives near Christchurch in NZ with her daughter and grandson.

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