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New York Times bestselling author Richelle Mead takes readers back to the Otherworld, an embattled realm mystically entwined with our world -- and ruled by one woman's dangerous choice...
Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham is the best at banishing entities trespassing in the mortal realm.... read more
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Characters edit
- Eugenie Markham: Lead character. She's half human and a half fae. She's the Queen of the Thorn Land and Daugther of Storm King. She works as Shaman-for-hire in the human world.
- Dorian: King if the Oak Land. Lover of Eugenie.
- Kiyo Marquez: He's half kitsune and half human. Eugenie's ex-boyfriend and the father of Maiwenn's child.
- Jasmine Delaney: Eugenie's teenager half-sister. She wants to be the mother of the Storm King grandson.
- Volusian: Eugenie's minion; a very powerful spirit.
- Deanna: A ghost that seeks Eugenie's help to solve her murder.
- Maiwenn: The Willow Queen. Former lover of Kiyo.
- Katrice: The Rowan Queen that wages a war with the Thorn Land and Oak Land.
- Masthera: Oak Land citizen. She has a seer ability.
- Ysabel: Former concubine of Dorian. She hates Eugenie.
- Roland Markham: Eugenie's step-father and shaman.
- Shaya: The regent of the Thorn Land.
- Rurik: Takes care of the Thorn Land politics and affairs.
- Lara: Eugenie's secretary in the Human world. Tiny blond with baby blue eyes.
- Enrique Valdez: Private investigator that is hired to investigate Deanna's murder.
- Timothy Red Horse: Eugenie's room-mate. "Poet"
- Imanuelle de la Colline: Girar's sister. An illusionist and assassin.
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“Please. Don't start with the mock wounded pride over your capabilities. You're a great warrior; I accept that. You defeat fetches and tables and all sorts of fiends.”
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“I can only assume this is human logic. Achieving peace by bending the truth is deceitful. The greatest sin in the world. But infidelity is moral and just.”
King Dorian -
“What do you expect me to do?” My voice was louder. I didn’t care who heard. “This is wartime. I kill their leader. I win. Otherwise, I let hell loose in here, and these people die. Which do you want, Kiyo? Pick—or else find another way.”
Eugenie Markham -
“I got stuck with another kingdom.”
Eugenie Markham
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I’d loved him so much, I’d faced Death herself. How did love like that change?
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My life is dirty, harsh, and deadly, the kind of life no frilly dress could withstand.
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His progress was halted when a small end table slammed into his back. I tell you, those things are lethal.
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I heard a rumor the Honeysuckle Land might join with Katrice. Honestly, how anyone could call their kingdom that and keep a straight face is beyond me.”
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“I too shall wait,” said Volusian, “in the hopes that you meet your death and that it is your spirit that emerges, so that I may torment it for all eternity.”
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“You have to,” she repeated, ignoring my questions. Her expression grew bleaker. “If you don’t get rid of your children, Kiyo will kill you.”
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Dorian claimed me with mind games and exquisite acts of dominance. Kiyo had always done it through strength and ferocity, an animal taking his mate.
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In the end, it didn’t matter what his plan was. What mattered was that he’d betrayed me. I’d opened myself to him, loved him. That was over now.
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“I heard their heartbeats,” I said at last. “And I saw them.” Well, kind of. Those blurs still didn’t look like much to me, but the point was irrelevant. “And when I did …” I groped to explain my feelings. “I just … I just wanted them. Both of them. None of the rest mattered.” A slow, strange smile spread across Dorian’s face. “That,” he declared, “is the most gentry thing I’ve ever heard you say.”
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“Her Royal Majesty, Queen Eugenie Markham, Called Odile Dark Swan, Daughter of Tirigan the Storm King, Protector of the Thorn Land, Beloved of the Triple Moon Goddess.”
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Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
Don’t confuse fairy queens with fairy princesses.
Table of Contents edit
Chapter 1 - 26
Glossary edit
- Iron Crown: A crown made of iron, which gives it's bearer the ability to separate a monarch from his/her land, without having to kill the monarch first.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 3 of 4 in Dark Swan. (standard series)
Preceded by Thorn Queen, and followed by Shadow Heir.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Richelle Mead (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Kensington
Country: United States
Publication Date: February 22, 2011
ISBN: 1420111795
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Kensington
Country: United States
Publication Date: February 22, 2011
ISBN: 1420111795
Page Count: 352
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- Dewey: 813
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