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Queen's Hunt
Queen's Hunt
Queen's Hunt
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THE SECOND INSTALLMENT OF AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR CLAIRE O’DELL’S EPIC FANTASY TRILOGY...

Months have passed since Ilse Zhalina abandoned her beloved Raul Kosenmark to start a new life in the garrison city of Osterling Keep. Theirs is a dangerous game, with enemies on both sides of the border. While Raul continues to influence the kingdom’s politics from afar, Ilse is set on her own quest to find the fabled jewels of the goddess Lir. Two have been lost to humankind for centuries. The third is held by Leos Dzavek, king of Károví and sworn enemy of Veraene.

In her search, she encounters a shipwrecked prisoner from another land, a woman who has a secret of her own...and one of the lost jewels. The two women become uneasy allies in their hunt for the third, because finding it could mean salvation for both of their realms.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherClaire O'Dell
Release dateFeb 16, 2021
ISBN9781005730567
Queen's Hunt
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Claire O'Dell

Claire O’Dell is the author of dozens of short stories and a number of SF/F novels, including the SF mystery series, The Janet Watson Chronicles, and the epic fantasy series River of Souls. Her first novel, Passion Play, won the 2010 RT Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Epic Fantasy and was long-listed for the James Tiptree award. Her novel A Study in Honor won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery. She currently lives in Connecticut with her family and two idiosyncratic cats.

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