num_pages: 475
description: They call her Traitor Kate. Its a title Kate Brighton inherited from her father after he tried to assassinate the high king years ago. Now Kate lives as an outcast clinging to the fringes of society as a member of the Relay the imperial courier service. Only those most skilled in riding and bow hunting ride for the Relay; and only the fastest survive for when dark falls the nightdrakesdeadly flightless dragonscome out to hunt. Fortunately Kate has a secret edge: she is a wilder born with magic that allows her to influence the minds of animals. But its this magic that she needs to keep hidden as being a wilder is forbidden punishable by death or exile. And its this magic that leads her to a caravan massacred by nightdrakes in broad daylightthe only survivor her childhood friend her first love the boy she swore to forget the boy who broke her heart.The high kings second son Corwin Tormane never asked to lead. Even as he waits for the urorthe once-in-a-generation ritual to decide which of the kings children will succeed himhe knows its always been his brother who will assume the throne. And thats fine by him. Hed rather spend his days away from the palace away from the sight of his father broken with sickness from the attempt on his life. But the peacekeeping tour Corwin is on has given him too much time to reflect upon the night he saved his fathers lifethe night he condemned the would-be killer to death and lost the girl he loved. Which is why he takes it on himself to investigate rumors of unrest in one of the remote city-states only for his caravan to be attackedand for him to be saved by Kate.With their paths once more entangled Kate and Corwin have to put the past behind them. The threat of drakes who attack in the daylight is only the beginning of a darker menace stirring in the kingdomone whose origins have dire implications for Kates fathers attack upon the king and will thrust them into the middle of a brewing civil war in the kingdom of Rime.
language: English
title: Onyx and Ivory
publisher: HarperAudio