Overview
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The miraculous invention of a Time Tube has given Great Britainās mighty FUP corporation unprecedented power, granting it unlimited access to the rich natural resources of the past. Opening a portal into sixteenth-century Scotland, the company has sent representatives back five hundred years to deal with the Sterkarms, a lawless barbarian clan that has plundered both sides of the English-Scottish border for generations.
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Among the first of the companyās representatives to arrive from the future, young anthropologist Andrea Mitchell finds herself strangely drawn to this primitive tribe of raiders and pillagers who, not surprisingly, view her as magical. As translator and liaison, she becomes enmeshed in the personal lives of these proud, savage folk, developing an especially strong emotional bond with Per, the handsome son of the ruthless Sterkarm chieftain, Toorkild.
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But the Sterkarmsā welcome does not extend to the FUP corporate despoilers from the futureāand soon a fragile agreement between the untamable Scots and the interloping āElvesā begins to crumble. Suddenly war looms on the horizon, and when treachery on both sides ignites a firestorm of violence, Andrea will have to choose where her loyalties truly lie: with her coldhearted employers or with the barbarous kinfolk of the man she has come to love.
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A winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize and a finalist for the Carnegie Medal, called āenthrallingā by Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials novels, Susan Priceās Sterkarm Handshake is a masterful blend of historical and science fiction critics have called ādazzling,ā āexciting,ā āmemorable,ā āthought provoking,ā and āa thumping good page-turner.ā
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This book title, The Sterkarm Handshake, ISBN: 9781504021012, by Susan Price, published by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (July 26, 2016) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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