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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: family trade
  name:
    name part: Stross, Charles.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Fantasy fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2004
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 303 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: A bold fantasy in the tradition of Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber, The Merchant Princes is a sweeping new series from the hottest new writer in science fiction! Miriam Beckstein is happy in her life. She's a successful reporter for a hi-tech magazine in Boston, making good money doing what she loves. When her researcher brings her iron-clad evidence of a money-laundering scheme, Miriam thinks she's found the story of the year. But when she takes it to her editor, she's fired on the spot and gets a death threat from the criminals she has uncovered. Before the day is over, she's received a locket left by the mother she never knew-the mother who was murdered when she was an infant. Within is a knotwork pattern, which has a hypnotic effect on her. Before she knows it, she's transported herself to a parallel Earth, a world where knights on horseback chase their prey with automatic weapons, and where world-skipping assassins lurk just on the other side of reality - a world where her true family runs things. The six families of the Clan rule the kingdom of Gruinmarkt from behind the scenes, a mixture of nobility and criminal conspirators whose power to walk between the worlds makes them rich in both. Braids of family loyalty and intermarriage provide a fragile guarantee of peace, but a recently-ended civil war has left the families shaken and suspicious. Taken in by her mother's people, she becomes the star of the story of the century-as Cinderella without a fairy godmother. As her mother's heir, Miriam is hailed as the prodigal countess Helge Thorold-Hjorth, and feted and feasted. Caught up in schemes and plots centuries in the making, Miriam is surrounded by unlikely allies, forbidden loves, lethal contraband, and, most dangerous of all, her family. Her unexpected return will supercede the claims of other clan members to her mother's fortune and power, and whoever killed her mother will be happy to see her dead, too. Behind all this lie deeper secrets still, which t…
  note: Charles Stross.
  note: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
  subject:
    topic: Murder victims' families
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Inheritance and succession
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Women journalists
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PR6119.T79 F36 2004
  classification: 813/.6
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Merchant princes ; bk. 1
    name:
      name part: Stross, Charles
  identifier: 0765309297
  identifier: 2004049576
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 040416
    record change date: 20151101180942.0
    record identifier: in00002049668