ULRICKA'S GAMBIT

<p><strong>What if heresy proves the only way to avoid a holy war?</strong></p><p> </p><p>Such a war threatens the Inland Empire and the Holy Oregon. It stalks the Mother Metropolitan as confident of its success as a Malheur Cobra hunting a barn rat.</p><p> </p><p>Only the unification of two powerful clans offers any chance of escape. But the proposed bride despises the thought of marriage and the groom might carry a genetic weakness that will doom the effort entirely.</p><p> </p><p>The situation appears hopeless and the auguries speak of annihilation and the wrath of the Goddess and the God.</p><p> </p><p>As the clans prepare for war Vlod magus to the bride's clan Clan Iredale works to reinvent an invincible weapon.</p><p> </p><p>A fine precaution. A secret ray of hope.</p><p> </p><p>But the weapon embodies an ancient and malignant heresy. Its use might save Clan Iredale but its very existence will drown the clans in a river of heresy and blood.</p><p> </p><p>Ulricka's Gambit The Assassins of Harmony Book 2 weaves a dystopian tale set several centuries in the future in which the forces of orthodoxy and heresy break loose threatening to obliterate everything before them.</p><p><br></p>