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Genre: Fantasy
About exoblivioneLocation: Austin Home Region: Age:29 Website: http://www.amandadownum.com Favorite writers: Caitlin R. Kiernan, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Bear, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Andrew Vachss Non-noveling interests: Consuming the flesh of the living |
Joined: October 30, 2006 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 1 NaNoWriMo buddies: 5
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Synopsis: The Bone Palace
When a prostitute dies carrying a royal signet, Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and agent of the Crown, is called to investigate. Her search leads to desecrated tombs below the palace, and the lightless vaults of the vampiric vrykoloi deep beneath the city. She and the Crown Prince must hide their investigation from the King, or risk a war between the living and the undead.
But worse things than vampires are plotting in Erisín--a long-dead sorceress is making a bid not only for renewed life, but for the throne as well, and both Isyllt's former lover and the Prince's mistress are caught in her schemes. Soon Isyllt is torn between the living and the dead, between the man she still loves and the royal family she's sworn to defend.
As a sorcerous plague sweeps the city and demons stalk the streets, the King slips closer to madness, and Isyllt must decide who she's prepared to betray, before the city built on bones falls in blood and fire.
Excerpt: The Bone Palace
In the Sepulcher, death smelled like roses.
Sachets of petals and braziers of incense lined the marble halls and scented oil lamps burned throughout the long vault, twining ribbons of rose and jasmine and myrrh through the chill air. Meant to drown the smell of blood and rot that crept out of the corpse-racks in the walls, but death couldn't be undone so easily. The raw coppery scent of recent violence teased past the sweetness, creeping into Isyllt's sinuses as she studied the dead woman on the slab.
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