# The Sworn

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- Book: [The Sworn](https://www.bookquiver.com/gail-z-martin/the-sworn) ([The Sworn.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gail-z-martin/the-sworn.md))
- Authors: [Gail Z. Martin](https://www.bookquiver.com/gail-z-martin)
- Publisher: orbit
- ISBN: 978-18-4149-913-0
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2011-02-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

As plague and famine scourge the Winter Kingdoms, a vast invasion force is mustering from beyond the Northern Sea. And at its heart, a dark spirit mage wields the blood magic of ancient, vanquished gods. Summoner-King Martris Drayke must attempt to meet this great threat, gathering an army from a country ravaged by civil war. And neighbouring lands reel toward anarchy while plague decimates their leaders. Drayke must seek new allies from among the living - and the dead - as an untested generation of rulers face their first battle. Then someone disturbs the legendary Dread as they rest in a millennia-long slumber beneath sacred barrows. Their warrior guardians, the Sworn, know the Dread could be pivotal as a force for great good or evil. But if it's the latter, could even the Summoner-King's sorcery prevail?