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Darien is the king’s favourite – cool, aloof and quick to conspire. Akaten is warm, sensuous and full of life – and a captive of war. Darien is driven by desire. Akaten by love. This is the story of their passion – and what happens when the king chooses a new favourite. Set in the world of the Magravandias trilogy, ‘The Thorn Boy’ is a tale of love and revenge and of the lessons in survival learned hard in the dangerous territory of a royal court, where everyone seeks to secure their place in a fragile and treacherous hierarchy. Librarian note: this edition from Eidolon Publications ISBN 0958686432 is for the novella The Thorn Boy published individually in 1999. This novella was later included in the anthology The Thorn Boy and Other Dreams of Dark Desire .