Jamethiel Knorth, Priest's Bane and Dream-Weaver, has returned victorious from Tai-tastigon, but trouble dogs the Kencyrath.
There is intrigue among the Highborn. The Randir and his allies want the larger houses to decide for all nine, which would strip the Highlordship from the Knorth. At Omiroth, a senile king struggles against his venal son-in-lawâbut if neither of these can rule, the next in line is a mother-dominated child. Kindrie Soul-Walker is captured and thrown in a secret dungeon, a political prisoner. And a Kendar administrator, dissatisfied with the use that Jame is making of the gates, schemes against her, and then against her house and her brother, Torisen Black Lord, Highlord of the Kencyrath.
While Tori defends Gothregor and Kindrie rots a secret captive, Jame rides south to Bashti. Here she confronts an unready and presumptuous heir, a withholding and manipulative paymaster, and invisible assassins. Her formal errand, meanwhile, is to compete in martial games with secret stakesâwhich she fears are a cloak for a massacre, or worse.
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About The Gates of Tagmeth:
"The Kencyr live in one of the most deeply realized worlds in fantasy, a rich and complicated space that includes many cultures and riveting, three-dimensional characters. Full of dark wonder, wry humor, and the quirks of Jameâs inimitable personality, the newest installment in Hodgellâs lifeâs work demonstrates why it can be worthwhile for a writer to spend 40 years writing the same series."âPublishers Weekly
About P.C. Hodgellâs Kencyrath Series:
âP.C. Hodgell writes the most strikingly weird and wonderful stories in epic fantasy today.ââCharles Stross
âHodgell has crafted an . . . intricate fantasy with humor, tragedy, and a capable and charming female hero.ââLibrary Journal
The Kencyrath Saga
Seekerâs Bane
Bound in Blood
Honor's Paradox
Sea of Time
The Gates of Tagmeth
By Demons Possessed
Omnibus Editions
The Godstalker Chronicles
Contains Kencyrath prequel novels God Stalk and Dark of the Moon
P.C. Hodgell earned her doctorate at the University of Minnesota with a dissertation on Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, and is a graduate of both the Clarion and the Milford Writers Workshops. Recently retired, she was a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in modern British literature and composition, and teaches an online course on science fiction and fantasy for the University of Minnesota. Hodgell lives in her familyâs ancestral nineteenth-century wood-framed house in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.