Swordplay, scandal, and sex—welcome to the world of Tremontaine, a glittering new entry in Ellen Kushner's classic Riverside series. This is the 11th episode in the third season of Tremontaine, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Karen Lord. Micah helps protect the students at Rafe’s school. Davenant unexpectedly thwarts Diane’s plans in council. The city merchants demand justice for Florian, allowing Kaab to use this against the Cocom. Esha gives Diane a key piece of advice, but it comes at a cost. Welcome to Tremontaine, where ambition, love affairs, and rivalries dance with deadly results. A Duchess whose beauty is matched only by her cunning; a handsome young scholar with more passion than sense; a foreigner in a playground of swordplay and secrets; and a mathematical genius whose discoveries herald revolution when games of politics begin, no one is safe. Keep your wit as sharp as your steel in this world where politics is everything, and outcasts are the tastemakers.

Welcome to Tremontaine, where ambition, love affairs, and rivalries dance with deadly results. In 1987 Ellen Kushner swept readers away to a world of scandal and swordplay with her novel Swordspoint that quickly became a cult-classic. Now joined by a team of writers, she returns to her beloved world with this prequel serial. Tremontaine follows Diane, Duchess Tremontaine, whose beauty is matched only by her cunning; Rafe Fenton, a handsome young scholar with more passion than sense; Ixkaab Balam, a tradeswoman from afar with skill for swords and secrets; and Micah, a gentle genius whose discoveries herald revolution. Sparks fly as these four lives intersect in a world where politics is everything, and outcasts are the tastemakers – so tread carefully, dear reader, and keep your wit as sharp as your steel.

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"A duchess's beauty matched only by her cunning; her husband's dangerous affair with a handsome scholar; a foreigner in a playground of swordplay and secrets; and a mathematical genius on the brink of revolution. Suddenly long-buried lies threaten to come to light and betrayal and treachery run rampant in this story of sparkling wit and political intrigue."--Amazon.com.