BLADE OF FIRE from the Icemark Chronicles
By Stuart Hill

Many years have passed since Queen Thirrin and her allies defended the Icemark against a brutal invasion. But now General Bellorum is back, along with his bloodthirsty spawn, twin sons even more vicious than him. Thirrin and Oskan also have a family: two girls and three boys. But darkness lurks within the House of Lindenshield: Medea, the couple's cold-hearted, fifteen-year-old daughter, who's just coming into her magical powers, may be the downfall of the kingdom. It's up to her brother, Charlemagne, crippled by polio as a child, to return from exile and rescue the land he loves.

Excerpt:
Charlemagne and Mekhmet were riding south across the desert.  With them were an escort of fifty cavalry and a baggage train of twenty camels, and as Sharley turned in his saddle to look back over the twin lines of the column he felt a swelling pride.  To his inexperienced eyes the glittering cavalcade and stately pacing camels looked like an army.  But best of all, actually riding away from the city and its intrigues had brought with it an invigorating sense of freedom.  With every mile they put between themselves and the complicated politics and plottings of the Sultan’s court, both princes felt like a weight was being lifted from their shoulders.  Soon they were chatting and giggling like a couple of schoolboys with no more worries than how much homework they had to hand in the next day.

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