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The Shadow Prince: Book 1 of Scions of the Gods
How can a person of flesh and blood lack a shadow?
And who is the strange, blind old man people call the Talantine, who seems to be following him?
These are the questions confronting Prince Tupilu, who at the age of nine makes a shocking discovery about himself. The answers lie in the astonishing secret about his mysterious mother, who died shortly after his birth. Yet it will be a further ten years before he discovers the whole of his unique, terrifying destiny; of the peril facing the world; and of the existence of Pellilu, a very talkative daemon, tasked with keeping him safe.
Set in the richly-detailed Late Bronze Age, The Shadow Prince is the first volume of an epic historical fantasy series, Scions of the Gods, which charts the journey of Tupilu and his friends as they strive to avert catastrophe. His path will entangle him in the mythic struggle of warring gods and duplicitous daemons, and with conniving politicians and murderous agents of foreign powers. His journey takes him from the heart of the Hittite empire to the damaged Oracle of Haleb and then the court of the famed King Solomon, where not all is as it seems.
"Armstrong combines fantasy elements with the stunningly realized real world history of Bronze Age Anatolia and Egypt in the opening chapter of a sweeping narrative that is thrilling, moving and at times funny." Philip Meeks
And who is the strange, blind old man people call the Talantine, who seems to be following him?
These are the questions confronting Prince Tupilu, who at the age of nine makes a shocking discovery about himself. The answers lie in the astonishing secret about his mysterious mother, who died shortly after his birth. Yet it will be a further ten years before he discovers the whole of his unique, terrifying destiny; of the peril facing the world; and of the existence of Pellilu, a very talkative daemon, tasked with keeping him safe.
Set in the richly-detailed Late Bronze Age, The Shadow Prince is the first volume of an epic historical fantasy series, Scions of the Gods, which charts the journey of Tupilu and his friends as they strive to avert catastrophe. His path will entangle him in the mythic struggle of warring gods and duplicitous daemons, and with conniving politicians and murderous agents of foreign powers. His journey takes him from the heart of the Hittite empire to the damaged Oracle of Haleb and then the court of the famed King Solomon, where not all is as it seems.
"Armstrong combines fantasy elements with the stunningly realized real world history of Bronze Age Anatolia and Egypt in the opening chapter of a sweeping narrative that is thrilling, moving and at times funny." Philip Meeks
488 pages, Paperback
Published July 17, 2016
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