num_pages: 564
description: The Bloodline Feud: an omnibus edition of the first two novels in Charles Stross's The Merchant Princes seriesThe six families of the Clan rule the kingdom of Gruinmarkt from behind the scenes. They are a mixture of nobility and criminal conspirators whose power to walk between their world and ours makes them rich in both.Miriam a hip tech journalist from Boston discovers her alternate-world relatives with explosive results that shake three worlds. Now as the prodigal Countess Helge Thorold-Hjorth she finds herself ensnared in schemes and plots centuries in the making. She is surrounded by unlikely allies lethal contraband andmost dangerous of allher family.To avoid a slippery slope down to an unmarked grave Miriam must build a power base of her ownwith unexpected consequences for three different time lines including the quasi-Victorian one exploited by the hidden family.
language: English
title: The Bloodline Feud
publisher: Tor UK