Lois McMaster Bujold. A “living classic” of modern science fiction. Creator of the unique science fiction saga about Miles Vorkosigan. And also the author of amazing, original fantasy, the most famous of which is the Chalion cycle. The world of “sword and sorcery.” The world of high houses , who have been fighting each other for so long that no one remembers the reasons for these wars. A world in which the dowager queen of the House of Chalion Ista and a motley company of her companions - a desperate horsewoman, a cheerful fat priest and beautiful and merciless brothers - “mercenary blades" - go on a pilgrimage to a distant temple... and miraculously escape death at the hands of a mysterious sect of heretics. Read "Paladin of Souls" - the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel, the sequel to the famous "Curse of Chalion"!