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The Chosen (SDC Second Edition)

Book 2 of The Stone Dance of the Chameleon

"The groundbreaking The Stone Dance of the Chameleon . . . is that rarest of things—a deeply original fantasy." - SFX

"Panoramic, riveting . . . majestically structured and vivid." - Starlog

"Phantasmagorical brutality . . . gorgeous prose . . . concise and poetic . . . contains no magic and yet retains an atmosphere of occult malevolence." - Strange Horizons

"A luscious picture of a viciously hierarchical and decadent society . . . extremely literate . . . outstanding imagination." - Publisher's Weekly

"Strikes the reader with great force . . . celebrates the evanescence of life and the enduring truth of love with such elan. I envy the visceral power of this book that dares to speculate so inventively, so colourfully, so humanely about our mortal limits." - A. A. Attanasio

"For readers who adore the Anne Rice novels, The Chosen might be a huge revelation . . . a bulging bubble of hallucinogenic imagination." - Bookotron

The Chosen is volume two, of seven, of the Second Edition of The Stone Dance of the Chameleon—a coming of age story—a saga of love and war—an apocalyptic, epic, fantasy adventure about power and redemption.

In the hidden crater of Osrakum, Carnelian finds a way through wonders and terror to love. But amidst the glittering and predatory glory of a Chosen election, as the Great, the Wise and the dowager Empress struggle for dominance, treachery will have its victims.