The Peace Child - Couverture souple

Name: The Peace Child
Author: Nethery, Nick
ISBN: 9781971507729

Nethery, Nick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1971507725 ISBN 13 : 9781971507729

Editeur : Raconteur Press, 2026

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Colonel Red Redgrave is done. Thirty years of raiding behind enemy lines for the King of Cordoba - ending unwinnable sieges, performing impossible missions, losing people who mattered - has earned him exactly one thing: a modest estate on the Alestian coast and permission to spend his remaining years fishing, drinking, and reading until he quietly falls apart. Then his king makes one final request. The Peace Child - Caden, six-year-old Leone-born royal hostage and living guarantee of the fragile ceasefire between two kingdoms - is about to be murdered. A conspiracy within Cordoba's own court wants the boy dead and the war reignited. Red is the only man the king trusts. He must move tonight. With him: Namura, the boy's novice nun minder, who has barely left her convent and is discovering the outside world at the worst possible time. And Caden himself - a child of enormous opinions, limitless energy, and a profound inability to be quiet when quietness is most required. What follows is a chase across a city crawling with soldiers, down river channels, through smuggler's markets on a neutral island, and across treacherous mountain terrain - while hunted by assassins disguised as pilgrims, monks who abandoned their sacred vows for coin, and Red's oldest friend, who has been leaving a trail for their pursuers the entire time. The abbey they reach for sanctuary doesn't hold. The estate Red inherits is occupied by the enemy. The allies they find are mercenaries with their own complicated reasons for helping. Set in a secondary world evoking seventeenth-century Europe - with working runic magic, flintlock weapons, and a society caught between tradition and upheaval - The Peace Child is a gritty, wryly funny military fantasy built on found family, reluctant heroism, and the stubborn belief that some things are worth protecting even when the cost is everything. For fans of morally complex military fantasy, swashbuckling adventure, and stories that refuse to flinch from the cost of war while insisting that peace is worth fighting for.

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