Sharing Knife

Young Fawn Bluefield has been kidnapped by an inhuman entity known as a malice. To her rescue comes Dag, one of the enigmatic soldier-sorcerers known as Lakewalkers. But in the ensuing struggle, an uncanny accident befalls Dag's sharing knife, which unexpectedly binds their two fates together.

In this gripping adventure-romance filled with heroic deeds and wondrous magic, Fawn and Dag have been married all of two hours when they depart her family's farm for Dag's home. But their arrival is met with prejudice and suspicion, setting many in the camp against them, some even threatening permanent exile for Dag.

Filled with magic, heroism, and all-too-human characters, Bujold's Sharing Knife saga is both a gripping adventure and a poignant romance. In this third volume, Fawn, the clever young farm girl, and Dag, the seasoned soldier-sorcerer, set off to find fresh solutions to the perilous split between their peoples. Along the way they acquire comrades and encounter a new world of hazards both human and uncanny.

In a world where malices, remnants of ancient magic, can erupt with life-destroying power, only the soldier-sorcerer Lakewalkers have mastered the ability to kill them. But Lakewalkers keep their uncanny secrets—and themselves—from the farmers they protect. So when patroller Dag rescued farm girl Fawn, neither expected to fall in love, marry, and defy both their kin to seek new solutions to the split between their peoples. As Dag's powers have grown, so has his frustration with the Lakewalkers' rigid mores. Fawn and Dag see that their world is changing and that the traditional Lakewalker practices cannot hold the malices at bay forever. Yet for all the customs that Dag and Fawn have challenged, they will soon be confronted with a crisis beyond imagining. When the old ways fail, can their untried new ways stand against their world's deadliest foe?

Lakewalker Barr Foxbrush returns from two years of patrolling the bitter wilds of Luthlia against the enigmatic, destructive entities called malices, only to find that the secret daughter he'd left behind in the hinterland of Oleana has disappeared from her home after a terrible accusation. The search for her will call on more of Barr's mind and heart than just his mage powers, as he tries to balance his mistakes of the past and his most personal duties to the future. A stand-alone story set in the world of the Sharing Knife.