Description
A hunted slave, Dekteon, flees his master’s cruelty only to stumble into a stranger fate—one that swaps his identity and thrusts him into the orbit of power. As an eerie horse and cart carry him beyond the familiar world, he finds himself entangled with a ruler’s consort who, like him, seems to be trapped by the roles fate has reassigned. In a landscape of shifting identities and ominous inevitability, both characters confront the cost of survival when every choice feels prewritten. With Tanith Lee’s signature flair for dark fantasy and lyrical, imaginative storytelling, this novel explores themes of freedom versus control, the masks people wear, and the unsettling question of whether escape can ever truly change what is coming.
Available Editions
paperback
Hodder Children's Books
Published Dec 6, 2001
175 pages
ISBN: 9780340843727
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First Published
1977
Language
eng
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