The Blood-Tainted Winter

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By TL Greylock (Taya Latham ’07). Grass Crown Press (via Amazon), November 2015. Raef Skallagrim longs to take to the sea, but is restrained by his father. Then, he learns that the king is dead and gets caught up in the dangerous affair of choosing a successor.