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The Bloodline Feud: The Family Trade / The Hidden Family (Merchant Princes, Bks 1-2)
The Bloodline Feud The Family Trade / The Hidden Family - Merchant Princes, Bks 1-2 Author:Charles Stross In The Merchant Princes series, some humans have an ability to travel between parallel Earths, which have differing levels of technology. — The Family Trade (Merchant Princes, Bk 1) — 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... more ». 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. 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 threaten everyone and everything she has ever known. Patterns of deception and interlocking lies, as intricate as the knotwork between the universes. But Miriam is no one's pawn, and is determined to conquer her new home on her own terms.
The Hidden Family (Merchant Princes, Bk 2)
Miriam, a hip tech journalist from Boston, discovered her alternate world relatives (in The Family Trade) and with them an elite identity, as Lady Helge, she didn't know was hers. Now, in order to avoid a slippery slope down to an unmarked grave, Miriam, starts applying modern business practices and scientific knowledge to a trade dominated by mercantilists in three other worlds, including the quasi-Victorian one exploited by the hidden family, with unexpected consequences.« less
ISBN-13: 9781447237617 ISBN-10: 1447237617 Publication Date: 4/11/2013 Pages:564 Edition:Bind up ed Rating: