In Great Waters (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780345491657)

During a time of great upheaval, the citizens of Venice make a pact that will change the world. The landsmen of the city broker a treaty with a water-dwelling tribe of deepsmen, cementing the alliance through marriage. The mingling of the two races produces a fresh, peerless strain of royal blood. To protect their shores, other nations make their own partnerships with this new breed-and then, jealous of their power, ban any further unions between the two peoples. Dalliance with a deepswoman becomes punishable by death. Any "bastard" child must be destroyed.

This is an Earth where the legends of the deep are true-where the people of the ocean are as real and as dangerous as the people of the land. This is the world of intrigue and betrayal that Kit Whitfield brings to life in an unforgettable alternate history: the tale of Anne, the youngest princess of a faltering England, struggling to survive in a troubled court, and Henry, a bastard abandoned on the shore to face his bewildering destiny, finding himself a pawn in a game he does not understand.

Yet even a pawn may checkmate a king.

Author: Kit Whitfield
ISBN-10: 0345491653
ISBN-13: 9780345491657
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Language: English
Published: 10/27/2009
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.34h x 6.52w x 0.85d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/28/2009 pg. 48
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2009
Romantic Times 12/01/2009 pg. 66 - Excellent
Booklist 11/15/2009 pg. 27