# By the Sword

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- Book: [By the Sword](https://www.bookquiver.com/mercedes-lackey/by-the-sword) ([By the Sword.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mercedes-lackey/by-the-sword.md))
- Authors: [Mercedes Lackey](https://www.bookquiver.com/mercedes-lackey)
- Publisher: daw
- ISBN: 978-08-8677-463-9
- Pages: 496
- Published: 1991-02-05
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Granddaughter of the sorceress Kethry, daughter of a noble house, Kerowyn had been forced to run the family keep since her mother's untimely death. Yet now at last her brother was preparing to wed, and...