To Ride Hell's Chasm

To Ride Hell's Chasm

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name = To Ride Hell's Chasm
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author = Janny Wurts
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Fantasy novel
publisher = Meisha Merlin Publishing
release_date = 20 June 2005
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 672 pp
isbn = ISBN 978-1592220243
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"To Ride Hell's Chasm" is a standalone novel taking place in a unique universe by Janny Wurts.

Plot summary

To Ride Hell's Chasm takes place in a few short days in the tiny kingdom of Sessalie. On the day the High Prince of Devall arrives in Sessalie to formalize his betrothal to Anja, Anja disappears and sorcery is suspected. Her intended fiance and her brother both want her found, the King of Sessalie orders Mykkael to find her and protect her. Has she been abducted or has she run?

Mykkael is an outsider in both colour and origin and suspicion quickly falls on him, the populace of Sessalie easily led to this conclusion. With sorcery afoot in Sessalie, Mykkael is forced to re-live his previous failure to protect a princess from sorcerous pursuit. With Sessalie turned against him, Mykkael must master both the real demons in Sessalie and the demons from his past. Forced to choose between obeying his King and obeying Taskin, Commander of the Royal Guard, Mykkael chooses the former with devasting and potentially fatal consequences for all of Sessalie.

As the reasons for Anja's flight become revealed and with a sorcerous invasion set to use Sessalie as the foothold for the continent, Mykkael's charge to save Anja becomes the same as saving Sessalie - and can Mykkael save himself along the way?

This book is as much a study of a principled character of robust integrity set under immense pressure as any "simple" chase story.

Editorial Comments

"Publisher's Weekly": "Wurts is an accomplished builder of worlds."

External links

* [http://www.paravia.com/JannyWurts/website/Books/ToRideHellsChasm.html To Ride Hell's Chasm Webpage]
* [http://www.paravia.com/JannyWurts/website/Excerpts/ToRideHellsChasmExcerpt.html To Ride Hell's Chasm Excerpt]


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