The Onyx Crown: Part I of a Trilogy - Alan Hurst
From the searing heat of the desert to the vastness of the savannah, The Onyx Crown tells the story of Jorann, Gesi, and Sania, threechildren who grow up in a pre-medieval era of wars and successions, not fifteen years after the greatest king in the history of thecontinent has been deposed and assassinated.When the legendary warrior of Numerian history, K'Nan of Loffri ishired to guide a hunting expedition he is astonished to discover thatone of the hunter's slaves, Jorann, a boy of thirteen, bears..