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The kings of Tremont have ruled for almost a thousand years. Officially, they have all ruled for the sake of the people. Officially, women have had no royal influence--especially not as ruling queens.

And officially, there is not now nor has there ever been magic in Tremont, or anywhere else. Only country bumpkins believe in it.

Prince Temmin may be a bumpkin, though he doesn't believe in magic. He's grown up far away from his father King Harsin's court, along with his two older sisters, the brilliant Sedra and the cheerful, frivolous Ellika. But now it's time to join his family at court to learn how to be king, even if he thinks Sedra would do a better job of ruling.

But what he learns from his mysterious new Teacher upends his world.

The Kings of Tremont were ruthless.

The Kingdom's influential women have been erased from history.

And magic is real. Teacher's been with the family for nearly a thousand years, holding the magic the Kings themselves lost, and that Temmin may retrieve.

He'll need it.

His father's illegitimate brothers are trying to kill him.

The conquered Inchar territories are revolting, and Tremontine workers and farmers are ready to rebel as Inchari slaves take their places.

The Nijan Empire is challenging Tremont at last, and Tremont must ally with Sairland to hold onto power--an alliance to be cemented with Sedra's marriage to Sairland's ruler, whether she wants him or not.

The Lovers are meddling in Temmin's sex life, in the form of beautiful twins those Gods occasionally possess. The queen of a group of vagabonds called the Travelers keeps appearing at odd times. Ellika may be making a dangerous alliance of her own.

And throughout, Teacher reads to him from a magic book called "An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom" about what really has gone on over the past thousand years.

The more Temmin learns, the less sure he is that the Kingdom is worth the price paid for it, and the more he wonders what Teacher and the Gods really want from him...

More than a thousand daily readers devour "An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom," now in draft installments three times weekly online. The first fully edited book in the series will be issued in paperback and ebook some time in late 2009.

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An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom by MeiLin Miranda
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