City at the edge of time
By: Janet and Chris Morris.
Contributors: Morris, Chris, 1946-
Series: Baen fantasy
Publisher: Baen
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Sacred Band of Stepsons
Genres: mythic fantasy
First sentence: The city crouched like a thirsty lion on the rock-strewn coast of Memory, as if it had always been there.
Description: Nikodemos, Tempus's partner and member of the Sacred Band of Stepsons,  falls out of the sky in a rain of fish and into a young girl's arms.  So begins the City at the Edge of Time, the only Sacred Band of Stepsons novel focused on Niko, Tempus's partner, over whom gods and numinous powers contest in this stand-alone adventure that is, none the less, Book 5 in the Sacred Band of Stepsons series.

In this Stepsons adventure, a princess of the City falls in love with Niko and all hell breaks loose as, separated from Tempus, the young fighter must become an avatar of the god Enlil, or lose his life in a test no man can survive.

Gentler than some of the books in this series, City at the Edge of Time is charming, sexy, and mystical.  This is a pivotal Sacred Band of Stepsons novel and one long-awaited by fans of Niko, Tempus's young partner, in this satisfying and mythic tale of honor tested and evil run amok.
Notes: "A Baen books original."  Back cover:  "An exciting and brilliantly colored sortie out of Thieves' World" -- David Drake 

"Join Tempus and Niko on the triple shores of land, sea, and eternity...where a young girl trembles between love and sorcerous obsession...where a prince's refusal to admit his flaws makes him a pawn of Hell...where a city of immortals learns that Death has not forgotten it....  In the catacombs beneath a warlock's citadel, swords and courage face the jaws of demons -- with a girl's life and a god's vengeance resting on the outcome."