{"id":2,"date":"2012-01-04T00:54:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T08:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larisawalk.com\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2012-06-17T13:32:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T20:32:07","slug":"book-stuff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/larisawalk.com\/blog\/book-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"A Handful of Earth (historical fantasy novel)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As the Mongol Horde draws near her tiny Russian principality, a spinster princess Yaroslava fears the worst. Her father is too old and ill to organize the defense. Yet her people would not follow her because she is a woman. The princes from the neighboring city-states and principalities won\u2019t come to help because of the old feuds. Worse yet, Yaroslava receives a foretelling that she will betray her people.<\/p>\n

Yelnik, the principality\u2019s throne town, falls. Most of its defenders perish. Attractive women and craftsmen are taken into slavery. Yaroslava herself becomes a slave, destined to serve the Mongol khan as his concubine. In captivity she faces many enemies. Among them are: a Russian slave with a grudge; a fellow concubine that can kill with the power of the evil eye; her uncle whom Yaroslava mistakenly thinks she can trust. To survive and regain freedom for herself and the other slaves from Yelnik, she will break a religious taboo against using magic, commit treason and defeat vodyanoy, an elemental being that wishes to imprison her soul in its river for eternity.<\/p>\n

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