First Last Chance

<p><strong><em>What you wanted lad was palace intrigues with poison and daggers maybe you get to wave around your fancy little sword in a rooftop duel at the end of a long chase hey? Turnabouts betrayals all that fun stuff? But here on the Ten-Thousand Seas it's mostly war. Mud guns and bombs by land; salt guns and torpedoes by sea.</em></strong></p><p></p><p>The Stone Unfurled is a long flat world surrounded by walls of golden ice covered by the Ten-Thousand Seas which are speckled with many islands whose inhabitants must make their way in a beautiful but harsh world. For the spoiled young governor who controls one of the tiniest islands this world has to offer the extent of that harshness is about to be fully revealed. Thrown into a chaotic war between diverse factions he must learn to make his way in the company of two women who are almost as frightening and dangerous as his enemies. Follow Arlo Haradin-Harkon on the first step of his slow transformation from a vain bratty dandy to a swashbuckling hero in...<span> </span><strong><em>First Last Chance</em></strong></p><p></p><p>There's adventure romance humor cool boats a bit of sword play strong women violence fatalism and lots (and lots) of salt water.</p><p></p><p><em>Trigger warning: This book contains a lot of graphic violence and at one point they say the title out loud.</em></p>