Books are listed alphabetically by author. Only books received are noted. Where available, links to SF Site reviews and book excerpts are provided. July 2000 Sequel to Winterhold and a nominee for the Frankfurt e-Book Award.
Blood plays a key role in the lives of the people who inhabit a planet locked in perpetual winter.
A young novice Interpreter is brought from the far North to the Hold by the Queen's own bodyguard. He becomes enmeshed in the violent political and social battles which riddle the Hold. Revolutionaries try to tear apart the ancient social fabric, while the aristocracy attempts to preserve it. And the Interpreters use both factions to further their own ends. When he finds out the truth concerning his birth, he must struggle even more to free himself from the meshes of both Hold and Camp.