King Javan's Year

UNEASY LIES THE HEAD

The young King Alroy was dying, and so the power-hungry former Regents began their plotting anew, conspiring to immure the rightful successor--the Deryni-sympathizing Prince Javan--in the monastery where he had taken holy vows.

Javan proved to be a formidable opponent: the Deryni-like powers bequeathed to the Haldane kings were already stirring in him. Javan was determined to claim his rightful crown and to restore justice to the kingdom. But the former Regents would stop at nothing to wrest back control of Gwynedd. They would use every political alliance they had cemented-during the prince's minority, as well as the might of a fanatical new religious order, to keep Javan from ever becoming a true ruler.

To prevail against the Regents, to rule his kingdom justly, and even to lie, Javan would have to be strong. He would have to be clever. And he would have to be very lucky indeed...