The Treachery of Kings
Mass Market Paperback
326 Pages
Published 2001
Bantam Books
ISBN: 0553581961

Mad Monarchs, Magicians, Mischief, and More...

Even in a magical world where animals have been given semi-human form and chaos can be the nature of the day, universal truths remain: War, foolish leaders and prejudice against those 'who are not the same as us.'

Still, Master Lizard Maker Finn has no quarrel with the Newlie folk, or creatures of any sort. Back from a traumatic vacation, he wants only to be with his fetching Mycer lover Letitia, and his sassy silver lizard, Julia Jessica Slagg.

Fate, though, never leaves the good in peace. Prince Fyxedia has commissioned Finn to build a tacky lizard timepeace for his archrival, the king of Heldessia--an odd request since the two have been at war for 700 years.

Worse, Finn is ordered to deliver the clock himself, flying over the war zone in a patched-up balloon.

This hazardous journey, though, is the least of Finn's problems, for Heldessia is a place of intrigue, murder, treason and more lethal magic than one Lizard Maker can handle--without a little help from his friends...