Dave Duncan
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Tales of the King's Blades are told in The Gilded Chain and Lord of the Fire Lands. Now comes the first in a trilogy about the students of Ironhall, t
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he academy from which the young king's daggers emerge as the finest swordsmen in the realm -- the King's Blades. Young Stalwart, known as Wart to his fellows students, is expelled from the academy for King's Blades_only to be plunged into a current of breathless intrigue and danger. Together with Emerald, a former White Sister, Wart must survive sorcery, swordplay, ambush, a chimera, a quagmarsh, and more, and uncover a devious plot to, assassinate their king...and prove himself worthy of a place among the King's Blades.
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