Book description
The six families of the Clan rule the kingdom of Gruinmarkt from behind
the scenes, a mixture of nobility and criminal conspirators whose power
to walk between their world and ours makes them rich in both. Braids of
family loyalty and intermarriage provide a fragile guarantee of peace,
but a recently ended civil war has left the families shaken and
suspicious. Miriam, a hip tech journalist from Boston, discovered her
alternate-world relatives with explosive results that shook the worlds.
Now, as the prodigal Countess Helge Thorold-Hjorth, she finds herself
ensnared in schemes and plots centuries in the making. She is surrounded
by unlikely allies, lethal contraband, and, most dangerous of all, her
family. With her modern American attitudes, she's not sure she can fit
in, or if she even wants to, but to stay alive, she really has no choice
. . . Praise for The Family Trade: 'Quirky, original and entertaining. .
. could be The Godfather of all fantasy novels' Kevin J. Anderson
'Light, loaded with tongue-in-cheek humour and deftly plotted' Guardian
Charles Stross lives with his wife in Edinburgh. In addition to
working as a writer of fiction he has worked as a technical author,
freelance journalist, programmer, and pharmacist. His fiction has been
shortlisted for both the Hugo and Nebula awards.
