IN GREAT WATERS
Book ID/图书代码： 04300008B24519
English Summary/英文概要： In a tense, divided court, a young princess watches her mother struggle to hold the throne. On a remote coastal estate, a scholar finds a child washed up on the shore. Anne. Henry. A Christian princess of the royal blood. A pagan bastard, groomed all his hidden, lonely life to make a grab for the crown.
In this work of stunning imagination, Kit Whitfield has written a fictional history at once familiar and alien. Since the ninth century, when the deepsmen invaded Venice, an uneasy alliance has held between the people of the land and the sea. That alliance was brokered by the warrior queen, Angelica, half landsman, half deepsman, the mother of the royal houses of Europe. Now, centuries later, no navy can cross the seas without allies in the ocean - and without deepsmen guarding its shores, no nation can withstand invasion. The hybrid kings keep the treaty between both sides, protecting their people from the threat of war.
The royal blood is the key to peace, and ferociously protected. The penalties for any landsman who tries to breed with a deepsman are severe; the fate of any ’bastard’ child, born of such an illegitimate union, is terrible. But the royal house of England is staggering, collapsing under the weight of centuries of inbreeding.
Anne prays for guidance, a way into the future without hatred or bloodshed. Henry holds with fierce certainty that only the strong survive. But if either of them is to outlive the coming conflict, they may need more than faith alone…
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 九世紀初當Deepsmen要入侵威尼斯時，一個由地上及海上的居民共同建立的聯盟阻止了這場種族的爭鬥，而這同盟的主事者便是流著兩族（Deepsmen及Landsman）的歐洲皇后Angelica。百年來，兩族就在這前人所訂的契約下，互不侵犯，直到皇后死後，雙方便開始相互暗自較勁…年輕的繼承者Anne公主，身上雖留著往是的血液，不過卻沒有其母親的對「王權」的野心，其皇族地位似乎將從她之後從此結束…
由Deepsmen的婦女和水手所生的私生子Henry，從小就受他人歧視的眼光，讓他磨練出堅忍的求生意志。不過就在被一位野心勃勃的貴族收養後，命運似乎也將重新改寫，就因其繼父的計畫也讓他一步步朝王位前進…
Henry是否成保護公主Anne的性命及其王位，而他自己是否也能從此脫離其不堪的身世，還是他們兩人仍受控於命運之神的掌握，終究難逃宿命的安排？(Vincent)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Kit Whitfield is a graduate of Christ’s College, Cambridge. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and now lives in London. Visit her website www.kitwhitfield.com
基特‧威特菲爾德（Kit Whitfield）畢業於牛津基督學院（Christ’s College, Cambridge），首部著作《月夜變身》（BAREBACK）一推出便一鳴驚人，目前該書的電影將由華納兄弟製作及紐西蘭新銳導演Andrew Adamson（納尼亞傳奇系列導演）負責執導。
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