Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay (Bookplate)

PRE-ORDER: TUESDAY, APRIL 22ND AT 11AM PTAuthor: Guy Gavriel KayPublisher: AceHardcover: 320 pagesPrinting: 1stISBN: ‎ 978-0593953983Release Date: May 27, 2025Signing Date: May 27, 2025Note: Signed on bookplate by Guy Gavriel Kay Book Description: Both sweeping and intimate, a majestic novel of love and war that brilliantly evokes the drama and turbulence of medieval FranceThierry Villar is a well-known—even notorious— tavern poet, familiar with the rogues and shadows of that world, but not at all with courts and power. He is an unlikely person, despite his quickness, to be caught up in the deadly contests of ambitious royals, assassins, and invading armies.But he is indeed drawn into all these things on a savagely cold night in his beloved city of Orane. And so Thierry must use all the intelligence and charm he can muster as political struggles merge with a decades-long war to bring his country to the brink of destruction.As he does, he meets his poetic equal in an aristocratic wom