Part of Series
No último livro desta saga épica têm lugar confrontos de poderes e energias inconcebíveis, personagens veem o seu destino cumprido e os desígnios para Acácia serão elevados até à glória redentora. A Rainha Corinn restaurou a dinastia Akaran ao conseguir manipular a magia terrível sobre o mundo conhecido. O seu irmão mais novo, Dariel, prossegue na sua jornada pelas Outras Terras, tendo-se tornado num defensor da liberdade dos escravos. E Mena avança para norte liderando um exército para aniquilar uma ameaça latente a Acácia, o povo semi-imortal Auldek. Com punho de ferro e hábeis estratégias políticas, a jovem Rainha reprime uma insurreição e impede a violência de se alastrar no reino… mas à noite é atormentada com sonhos horrendos. Resta-lhe manter a força de espírito para assegurar algo quase impossível: a prosperidade e união pacífica de todas as raças.
Author
David Anthony Durham was born in New York City to parents of Caribbean descent. He grew up mostly in Maryland, but has spent the last fifteen years on the move, jumping from East to West Coast to the Rocky Mountains, and back and forth to Scotland and France several times. He currently lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. Or... actually, no he doesn't. He's back in New England at the moment. He is the author of a trilogy of fantasy novels set in Acacia: The Sacred Band, The Other Lands, and The War With The Mein, as well as the historical novels The Risen, Pride of Carthage, Walk Through Darkness, and Gabriel’s Story. He’s won the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer, a Legacy Award, was a Finalist for the Prix Imaginales and has twice had his books named NY Times Notable Book of the year. His novels have been published in the UK and in French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. Three of his novels have been optioned for development as feature films. David received an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Maryland. He has taught at the University of Maryland, the University of Massachusetts, The Colorado College, for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, Cal State University, and at Hampshire College. He's currently on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA Program. He reviews for The Washington Post and The Raleigh News & Observer, and has served as a judge for the Pen/Faulkner Awards. He also writes in George RR Martin's weird and wonderful Wild Cards universe. He feels like the process makes him exercise a whole new set of creative muscles, and he loves the feeling.
