A Seat for the Rabble

<p>Centuries ago the peasants of Loran killed their king. The more powerful classes--lords priests and merchants--exacted revenge by stripping the lowborn of their seats in the Worthy Assembly where subjects make laws with the crown. Consumed by unchecked greed and corruption Loran now teeters on a knife's edge . . . and there is no end to the terror and injustice visited on Commoners.</p><p><br></p><p>As the priestking's loyalists ruthlessly seize peasant children and plot their coup Jason Warchild sees a war coming--a war he means to prevent. Aided by his cunning sister and traitor uncle the bastard prince enters a deadly tournament to claim his crown unite the land against his family's enemies--and return peasants to power for the first time in hundreds of years.</p><p><br></p><p>Amid tournament politics and threats of violent revolution two children embark on quests that will shake the kingdom to its core. One a boy hostage accompanies a sorcerer to confront an ancient evil sowing the seeds of strife. The other a peasant girl stakes her soul on a gambit to raise her father from the dead.</p><p><br></p><p>Lord knight hostage peasant: the fires will engulf them all in the fight for a voice in their own rule.</p>