A Most Vehement Flame

Formerly Iron Ash and Blood

von Amos Brightman

414 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Two nights ago, in a lamplit hall, a healer named Meira read an old word off an inked plate and gave a whole season of horror its true name. Now the page that told how to end the thing has been cut out of every book in the river country. Someone wanted Haven to know exactly what was waking in its ground. Someone made very sure Haven would never read how to stop it.By day the fields are full of grey stones. By night the stones unfold, and drink, and leave what they drink still walking.Kai Cinder is nineteen, a farmer's son with a blade at his hip and a place on the wall nobody has said aloud. Meira came out of the dead country at twelve on bleeding feet and grew into the best pair of hands the healers' house has. Between them stands a promise already made and a house not yet built. Against them stands a war the wall has no answer for: beasts that wear stone, a host of the dead marching in locked ranks, giants that swallow men whole and keep them, and a crowned thing on a dead horse whose helm the eye cannot hold.Then the dead come over the wall, and they take her.He goes after her into the grey. And what the two of them bring back out of the river at dawn will decide whether Haven stands, and whether the man who could not say the words finally builds the house.For love is strong as death; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. Song of Solomon 8:6-7The Sorken Chronicles continue the story begun in Until the Day Breaks: clean water and patient darkness, a settlement learning what its wall was for, and two people who have already declared, and now must live long enough to build.Includes a reader's glossary of the river country and "Scripture Behind the Story."

• ISBN: 9798193358350
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp