The Hallowed Hunt

Hardcover, 470 pages

English language

Published Feb. 18, 2005 by Eos.

ISBN:
978-0-06-057462-8
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An acclaimed legend in the field of fantasy and science fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold returns to the vivid and perilous world of her previous masterworks, the Hugo Award-winning Paladin of Souls and Hugo and World Fantasy Award-nominated The Curse of Chalion, with an epic tale of devotion and strange destiny.Prince Boleso is dead -- slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile.Lord Ingrey kin Wolfcliff has been dispatched to the remote castle of the late, exiled, half-mad royal to transport the body to its burial place and the accused killer, the Lady Ijada, to judgment. Ingrey's mission is an ugly and delicate one, for the imminent death of the old Hallow King has placed the crown in play, and the murder of his youngest son threatens to further roil already treacherous political waters. But there is more here than a prince's degenerate lusts and the fatal retribution it engendered. …

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Subjects

  • Kings and rulers -- Succession -- Fiction
  • Rites and ceremonies -- Fiction
  • Animal sacrifice -- Fiction
  • Rape victims -- Fiction