The Bloodline Feud: an omnibus edition of the first two novels in Charles Stross's The Merchant
Princes seriesThe six families of the Clan rule the kingdom of Gruinmarkt from behind the
scenes. They are a mixture of nobility and criminal conspirators whose power to walk between
their world and ours makes them rich in both. Miriam a hip tech journalist from Boston
discovers her alternate-world relatives with explosive results that shake three worlds. Now as
the prodigal Countess Helge Thorold-Hjorth she finds herself ensnared in schemes and plots
centuries in the making. She is surrounded by unlikely allies lethal contraband and-most
dangerous of all-her family. To avoid a slippery slope down to an unmarked grave Miriam must
build a power base of her own-with unexpected consequences for three different time lines
including the quasi-Victorian one exploited by the hidden family.
