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A thrilling saga of a boy, Gallin, and a girl, Alexine, lifelong friends, who escape an assassin on their shared 16th birthday only to face mortal danger on a different world,

TYRANT'S CROWN: Brothers and Sisters is international best-selling author Joseph Amiel's thrilling saga of a boy, Gallin, and a girl, Alexine, lifelong friends, who escape an assassin on their shared 16th birthday only to face mortal danger on a different world, but also the prospect of greater power and purpose than they could have ever imagined. It is the first book in the TYRANT'S CROWN series.

Dropped into a strange version of London in the 1770s, they join the crowd outside Westminster Abbey viewing the national 16th birthday celebration of the king's son and the latter's future bride. Shockingly, the two look exactly like Gallin and Alexine, who must go on the run to evade arrest for the capital crime of impersonating royalty. When captured, Gallin cleverly evades their execution by claiming the ancient right of Trials by Combat against their look-alikes, death duels to become sole heirs to the king and queen. They have only a month at the Royal Academy to learn the lethal combat skills their foes have trained in there for years. The increasingly deranged tyrant king has own reasons for their elimination and, in that effort, reveals to a populace kept ignorant for centuries much of the ruling class's astonishing secret technology.

The battles shift from London's palace and alleys to a TV spectacle fought with swords in mid-air over Philadelphia, the city where their new friends, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, are debating independence from the Crown. As dark mysteries hidden in the past unravel and their alliances shift, Gallin and Alexine are plunged into the perils of an American Revolution far different from what they studied in school.

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