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"The people, the politics, the details of warfare and daily life all ring as true as the steel
sword the heroine wields so doughtily. This is much more than a retooling of the Matter of
Britain: It is a fully imagined, living, magical world."
—Delia Sherman




The King's Peace

Sulien ap Gwien was seventeen when the Jarnish raiders came. Had she been armed
when they found her, she could have taken them all. As it was, it took six of them to
subdue her. She will never forgive them.
Thus begins her story—a story that takes her back to her family, with its ancient ties
to the Vincan empire that once ruled in Tir Tanagiri, and forward to Caer Tanaga, where
the greatest man of his time, King Urdo, struggles to bind together the squabbling nobles
and petty princes into a unified force that will drive out the barbarian invader and restore
the King's Peace.
King Urdo will change Sulien's life. She will see him for what he is: the greatest hope
the country has. And he will see her for what she is: the greatest warrior of her day.
Together they will fight and suffer for an age of the world, for the things that the world
always needs and which never last.
Ringing with the clash of arms and the songs of its people, rich with high magic and
everyday. The King's Peace begins an epic of great deeds and down-to-earth people, told
in language with the strength and flexibility of sharpened steel.




An epic of real heroism, real loyalty, and real love of country.



"The Kings Peace beautifully and thought-provokingly tells a story set in a world and
a history almost like ours, but different enough to be in itself a kind of elvenland. It's good
to know that there will be more."
—Poul Anderson
 Walton writes with an authenticity that never loses heart, a rare combination in a
genre where we are so often offered one or the other. The King's Peace is proof that no
matter how mined out a subject may seem, a dedicated writer can dig down to a true vein
of legend and hammer out gold."

—Robin Hobb