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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The legendary city of Ys was built against the sea. According to Breton legend, it was destroyed in a single night when its gates were opened and the ocean came rushing in. This is the story of the woman blamed for its fall.
King Gradlon has spent his life conquering everything placed before him. But when a storm wrecks his ship off the wild coast of Brittany, the sea takes him instead.
Beneath the waves, he is saved by Gwenn-an ancient keeper of the drowned who has watched him for years and chosen him to father a daughter powerful enough to belong to both land and sea.
That daughter is Dahut.
For Gwenn and their child, Gradlon builds Ys: a magnificent walled city raised on a tidal island in the Baie de Douarnenez, its gates holding back the ocean and its canals filling with every tide. But when Gwenn is forced to return to the sea, Gradlon makes a promise to let their daughter know the world she inherited from her mother.
Then fear changes everything.
Terrified that the sea will take Dahut from him too, Gradlon hides the truth of her birth, tells her that her mother is dead, and turns the extraordinary city he built for her into a prison.
But Dahut can hear the water calling.
And walls cannot hold back the tide forever.
A dark, sensual reimagining of the Breton legend of Ys, Ys transforms the story of the wicked princess who doomed a city into a tragedy of fathers and daughters, broken promises, forbidden inheritance, and the terrible difference between loving someone and possessing them.
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