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<p>Evie Manieri's <i>Blood's Pride</i> is the first book of The Shattered Kingdoms, an engaging, action-packed, and "highly imaginative" (<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>) series of fantasy novels with epic scope and "the perfect mix of romance, family ties, betrayals, and agonizing dilemmas" (<i>RT Book Reviews</i>).</p><p></p><p>Rising from their sea-torn ships like vengeful, pale phantoms, the Norlanders laid waste to the Shadar under cover of darkness. They forced the once-peaceful fisher folk into slavery and forged an alliance with their former trading partners, the desert-dwelling Nomas tribe, cutting off any hope of salvation.</p><p>Now, two decades after the invasion, a rebellion gathers strength in the dark corridors of the city. A small faction of Shadari have hired the Mongrel, an infamous mercenary, to aid their fledgling uprising—but with her own shadowy ties to the region, she is a...Pages of Blood's Pride :