Books like The Lions of Al-Rassan
In a peninsula like medieval Spain, where the old caliphate has crumbled into city-states and northern kings are gathering, a poet-assassin, a famous captain and a woman physician find themselves allies in exile.
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Under Heaven
Shen Tai, second son of a great general, spends two years burying the dead of both armies at a remote battlefield lake, and is rewarded by a foreign princess with 250 Sardian horses, a gift that could get him killed.
Tigana
Twenty years after a sorcerer-king laid a spell on the province that killed his son, so that no one born outside it can hear or remember its name, a handful of its exiles, among them a young singer, plot to bring it back.
The Sword of Kaigen
On the Kusanagi peninsula, where the Matsuda family has trained elemental warriors for generations, fourteen-year-old Mamoru begins to doubt what he has been taught, and his mother Misaki, who gave up a fighter's life for marriage, keeps her past hidden as war reaches their shores.
The Grace of Kings
In the islands of Dara, held together by a tyrant emperor, Kuni Garu, a charming idler turned bandit, and Mata Zyndu, the giant last son of a deposed noble clan, are drawn into the rebellion that follows his death.
The Pariah
Alwyn, raised among the outlaws of the Shavine Forest, is captured after his band is ambushed and sent to the mines, where he learns to read and write, and the road that follows leads him to Lady Evadine Courlain, a captain whose visions speak of a coming apocalypse.
The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Baru Cormorant, whose island was conquered by the Empire of Masks when she was a child, rises through the empire's service as an accountant, planning to destroy it from within, whatever it costs her.
The Jasmine Throne
Malini, a princess exiled by her brother the emperor to a ruined temple to repent, is waited on by Priya, a maidservant hiding the powers she was born with, as a rot spreads through the land.
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Yeine Darr, chieftain of a small northern people, is summoned to the floating palace of Sky after her mother's death and named one of three heirs to the world's throne, in a court that keeps enslaved gods as weapons.
Witchmark
Miles Singer, a war veteran working as a psychiatric doctor under a false name to hide his magic, is asked by a dying man to find his killer, alongside a beautiful stranger named Tristan Hunter.
The Winner's Curse
Kestrel, the daughter of a conquering general who would rather play music than fight, impulsively buys a young slave named Arin at auction, and the price of that choice grows as she discovers what he is hiding.
The Poppy War
A war orphan with shamanic powers is drafted into a military academy where she must survive both the brutality of training and the awakening of ancient gods.
The Last Wish
Geralt of Rivia, a witcher who hunts monsters for pay, rests at a temple of the goddess Melitele after a hard fight and remembers the jobs that brought him there.