01369cam a2200253 4500 202026350 TxAuBib 20150127120000.0 150127s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781597803861 hardcover $26.99 1597803863 hardcover $26.99 TxAuBib Williams, Mazarkis. Knife Sworn / Mazarkis Williams. 1st Ed. San Francisco, CA : Night Shade Books, 2012. 307 p. ; 24 cm. Tower and knife trilogy ; 2 After spending most of his life in captivity, Sarmin now sits upon the Throne of Cerana. But his reign is an uneasy one. And the emperor’s own heart is torn between two very different women: Mesema, a Windreader princess, and Grada, a lowborn untouchable with whom Sarmin shares a unique bond. In times past, a royal assassin known as the Emperor’s Knife served to defend the throne from menace, but the last Knife has perished and his successor has yet to be named. Sarmin must choose his own loyal death-dealer . . . but upon whom can be he bestow the burden of the Knife-Sworn? 20150127. Emperors Fiction. Fantasy fiction. Tower and knife trilogy ; 2.