A Dance with Fate
core novel 2020 Warrior Bards
Record
| First published | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.24 (3,127 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 507 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780451492807 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
A Dance with Fate, the second book of the Warrior Bards trilogy, picks up with Liobhan back on Swan Island for advanced training after the loss of her brother to the Otherworld in the previous volume. During a training exercise she accidentally injures her comrade Dau, and in taking responsibility for the harm she becomes a bond servant for a year at Oakhill, Dau's family estate. There the two uncover troubling secrets within the household and find themselves threatened by the Crow Folk, supernatural beings whose presence endangers both the human world and the Otherworld. As Liobhan and Dau dig into the corruption they find at the heart of Oakhill, their investigation places them in real danger, drawing on both their warrior training and abilities that go beyond ordinary combat.
Where it sits
- Universe: Warrior Bards
- Series: Warrior Bards core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Juliet Marillier
Notes
- From the series record (Warrior Bards): Marillier's most recent completed trilogy, set in early-medieval Erin (Ireland) -- a separate world/cast from Sevenwaters despite the shared broad setting-region, per independent research (no crossover characters or continuity link found).
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Warrior Bards: position 2 of 3: previous The Harp of Kings (2019) · next A Song of Flight (2021)
Sources
- julietmarillier.com -- Warrior Bards
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliet_Marillier
- https://julietmarillier.com/books/a-dance-with-fate/
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