The Council of Blades (Forgotten Realms, The Nobles Series , No. 5)
by Paul Kidd
Category: Fiction

War cares little for the troubles of the aristocracy. As a terrible new weapon obliterates the age of courtly battle, an intelligent but plain princess and her companions--an addled young inventor and a kleptomaniac firebird--find themselves forced into a battle for survival in a suddenly very deadly world.