The Serpent Bride
by:
Sara Douglass (author)
Rescued from unspeakable horror, Ishbel Brunelle has devoted her life to the Order of the Coil, a sacred cult that reads the future in the entrails of its human sacrifices. But the Serpent has loftier plans for the archpriestess, and an eerie, eldritch warning: Prepare for the Lord of Elcho...
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Rescued from unspeakable horror, Ishbel Brunelle has devoted her life to the Order of the Coil, a sacred cult that reads the future in the entrails of its human sacrifices. But the Serpent has loftier plans for the archpriestess, and an eerie, eldritch warning: Prepare for the Lord of Elcho Falling . . . Perils abound in a realm beset by treachery, and above all looms the DarkGlass Mountain—once known as the Threshold—as the terrible Dark God Kanubai prepares to emerge from his prison in exile.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060882136 (0060882131)
ASIN: 60882131
Publish date: May 22nd 2007
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Pages no: 640
Edition language: English
Series: Darkglass Mountain (#1)
The story opens with Ishbel losing her family at a young age and being rescued by the Coil, where she is brought up and becomes the arch priestess of that order. Then she's ordered to go to Maximilian in Escator and become his wife. Maximilian is torn, the coil have a terrible reputation but he n...