Epona Sequence Series by Judith Tarr
Epona Sequence #1
White Mare's Daughter
Judith Tarr
In a time before history, in a land of legend, where wild horsemen wage endless war across a sea of grass, the last descendant of the White Mare's servants follows a sacred vision beyond the edge of the world. There she finds a land ruled by women, whose people have no word for war. But the horsemen are coming. The White Mare's daughter must try to stop them, and both save and change the world.
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Epona Sequence #2
Lady of Horses
Judith Tarr
In the grandfathers' time, when few yet living had been born, the People worshipped the horse, and served him, and took the gifts that he gave them: his meat, his hide, the milk of his mares. But he had not yet granted to men the greatest gift of all: the gift of riding on his back, and racing the wind.Sparrow is a shaman's daughter in a tribe that forbids women to be kings, to be shamans, to be anything but silent and tractable servants to the all-powerful men. They may not ever ride the horses that are the life and soul of the tribe, or even approach them, for fear of angering the gods.But Sparrow knows another story, a story of the woman who first rode a horse, and her brother who took both the horse and the glory away from her. Sparrow sees visions and dreams dreams—and her brother the shaman takes them from her and presents them as his own.
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Epona Sequence #3
Daughter of Lir
Judith Tarr
Long years after the White Mare came to the people of the Mothers, bringing the wild horsemen from the sea of grass and changing the world forever, the world is changing again. The Mother of Lir is dead in childbirth, her infant heir cast out amid dire omens. War is coming—such a war as the people have never seen, fought with a new and terrible weapon: the chariot.Rhian, potter's child and White Mare's chosen, ventures with Emry the prince of Lir into the sea of grass and undertakes to steal the enemy's weapon. But that enemy is not at all what they expected. In Minas, prince and maker of chariots, and his mother Aera, they find a remarkable and deadly kinship—and forge an alliance that will be both the destruction and the salvation of Lir.
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Epona Sequence #4
The Shepherd Kings
Judith Tarr
For a hundred years the ancient kingdom of Lower Egypt has been crushed beneath the wheels of foreign chariots. Its rightful king has striven to win it back, but failed; the bearded invaders, the Shepherd Kings, whom Egyptians call the Hyksos, cast him down in defeat. Kemni, kinsman of an old noble house, the Sun Ascendant, was lost in the last battle and presumed dead. But his life was saved by the Pharaoh's son, and he was taken away into Upper Egypt, where he has become a royal favorite. The Pharaoh has a new plan to win back the Lower Kingdom, and entrusts Kemni with the task of winning new and powerful allies who may help Egypt at last to become whole. Iry, daughter of the Sun Ascendant, has lost her father and brothers and cousins in the rebellion. Now she is a slave, forced to serve the conquerors—and their old lord is dead. A new master has come to the Sun Ascendant, and he is not like the rest of his people. His mother comes from the distant east, from a tribe in...
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