R. H. OATHWELL

Ten Thousand Hands

Book One

King Herrold of Oromund has never lost a battle. Swords snap on him and arrows splinter on his cheek, because more than a million people have lent him their hands by oath.

In a long hall of shelves in the capital, Piran Sedge, a careful clerk who loves his rolls, clears a backlog of death notices from the war across the strait. His sum will not come out the way the cathedral’s does.

He is posted to Esk Varrow, the border city the Sarn Marshal is about to besiege. Across the lines, Sarai Corvel, who has never lost either, counts what each win has cost her. And on Candle Row, Oona Bracken has four children, one loaf, and a font at the end of her street.

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