The Sarantine Mosaic series
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| Author(s) | Guy Gavriel Kay |
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| Publisher | Harpercollins |
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| One of the world's foremost masters of fantasy, Guy Gavriel Kay has thrilled readers around the globe with his talent for skillfully interweaving history and myth, colorful characterization, and a rich sense of time and place. The Sarantine Mosaic is his most powerful work to date. | |
One of the world's foremost masters of fantasy, Guy Gavriel Kay has thrilled readers around the globe with his talent for skillfully interweaving history and myth, colorful characterization, and a rich sense of time and place. The Sarantine Mosaic is his most powerful work to date.
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Sailing to Sarantium: Book 1 of The Sarantine Mosaic
Crispin is a mosaicist, a layer of bright tiles. Still grieving for the family he lost to the plaque, he lives only for his arcane craft. But an imperial summons from Valerius the Trakesian to Sarantium, the most magnificent place in the world, is difficult to resist.
In a world half-wild and tangled with magic, a journey to Sarantium means a walk into destiny. Bearing with him a deadly secret and a Queen’s seductive promise, guarded only by his own wits and a talisman from an alchemist’s treasury, Crispin sets out for the fabled city. Along the way he will…
Lord of Emperors: Book 2 of The Sarantine Mosaic
In Sailing to Sarantium, the first volume in the Sarantine Mosaic, renowned mosaicist Crispin—beckoned by an imperial summons of the Emperor Valerius—made his way to the fabled city of Sarantium. A man who lives only for his craft, who cares little for ambition, less for money, and nothing for intrigue, Crispin now wants only to confront the challenges of his art high upon a dome that will become the emperor’s magnificent sanctuary and legacy.
But Crispin’s desire for solitude will not be fulfilled. Beneath him the city swirls with rumors of war…
