Written on the Dark, Guy Gavriel Kay

Special edition from Inkstone, Written on the Dark. Read once, excellent used condition. Signed and numbered. I loved this book! But I'm running out of shelf space and hard decisions have had to be made.

From the publisher: Tavern poet Thierry Villar is notorious for his bawdy and rousing verse. Intimately familiar with rogues and scandals, and a stranger to the halls of power, he is the most unlikely of people to be swept into the deadly contests for the throne and brutal warfare.

But Thierry is indeed drawn into all these things on a savagely cold night, when he is forced into solving a vicious royal murder. Thrown into the deadly machinations of aristocratic society, he meets his poetic equal, and crosses paths with a young woman driven to lead her country's army into glorious battle.

As the fight for the crown merges with a decades-long war, Thierry must form improbable alliances and use all the charm he can muster if he wants a chance at survival...