{"product_id":"9781944668099","title":"Mordred, Bastard Son","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eI was born during the fires of Beltane. My mother was called the Witch-Queen and my father, Arthur, King of the Britons.\u003c\/strong\u003e From \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author Douglas Clegg comes a spellbinding novel of Arthurian historical fantasy. \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eConceived in violence, born of royalty, and raised in exile,\u003c\/strong\u003e Mordred grows to manhood torn between his powerful mother's desire for revenge, his own conflicted feelings towards the father who betrayed him, and his passionate coming of age into first love with one of the greatest knights of Camelot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews of \u003cem\u003eMordred, Bastard Son\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*Starred Review* \"Riveting...Clegg puts an inspired wrinkle in the hoary tale of Arthur and the grail by casting Arthur's kindred enemy, Mordred, as a gay man. An injured stranger in a cloak and odd, paganish mask, is captured and held in a monastery, igniting wild speculation among the locals, who believe him a notorious traitor. And so he is. He is Mordred, the bastard son of Arthur Pendragon and his half sister, the witch-queen Morgan Le Fay, and he now awaits trial for murder and treason...How excellent.\" - \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Douglas Clegg's stunning Mordred, Bastard Son will inspire and refresh...\" - Michael Rowe, \u003cem\u003eAdvocate Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Clegg (The Priest of Blood) maintains a nice balance between the human and mythic dimensions of his characters, portraying the familiar elements of their story from refreshingly original angles.\" - \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Well-crafted. Written in lyrical prose with colorful characters and historical depth. Lovers of both history and fantasy will discover...an enchanting read.\" - \u003cem\u003eEdge Boston\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Clegg beautifully skewers the Arthurian legends, weaving a compelling story, single-handedly reinventing Mordred's sexuality. He is no longer the betrayer of Arthur, the knight Lancelot, and Guinevere, Queen of the Britons; he is now the seductive and passionate hero, a lover of men given the almost insurmountable task of finding the cauldron of rebirth...\" - Michael Leonard, \u003cem\u003eCurled Up with a Good Book Blog\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...Magic-true magic that really works-takes center stage in...Mordred, Bastard Son...a refreshing return to the myth and magic of the legends...Clegg's approach recalls Sir Thomas Mallory, Chrétien de Troyes, and even Edmund Spenser at times; his setting is never made temporally explicit but rather melds Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and high medieval British elements.\" - \u003cem\u003eStrange Horizons\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDiscover Douglas Clegg's fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLights Out \u003cbr\u003eNeverland \u003cbr\u003eThe Children's Hour \u003cbr\u003eThe Halloween Man \u003cbr\u003eYou Come When I Call You \u003cbr\u003eThe Hour Before Dark \u003cbr\u003eNightmare House \u003cbr\u003eMischief\u003cbr\u003eThe Infinite\u003cbr\u003eThe Abandoned\u003cbr\u003eIsis\u003cbr\u003eThe Necromancer\u003cbr\u003eGoat Dance \u003cbr\u003eBreeder \u003cbr\u003eAfterlife \u003cbr\u003ePurity \u003cbr\u003eDark of the Eye \u003cbr\u003eThe Words \u003cbr\u003eWild Things\u003cbr\u003eBad Karma \u003cbr\u003eRed Angel \u003cbr\u003eNight Cage \u003cbr\u003eNaomi \u003cbr\u003eThe Nightmare Chronicles \u003cbr\u003eThe Attraction \u003cbr\u003eNight Asylum \u003cbr\u003eThe Priest of Blood \u003cbr\u003eThe Lady of Serpents \u003cbr\u003eThe Queen of Wolves \u003cbr\u003eDinner with the Cannibal Sisters\u003cbr\u003eMordred, Bastard Son\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alkemara Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063111926000,"sku":"9781944668099","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781944668099_p0.jpg?v=1763769201","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781944668099","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}