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Prince Gareth thinks his coming of age ceremony will be mere pageantry, but during the celebration a dark family secret comes to light. A secret that leads to a suicide, a murder, and his exile. Now Prince Gareth must become the man he is proclaimed to be, or die.
Set in a post-apocalypse future, The Prince & the Jester follows Gareth as he flees across a nightmarish landscape. Mutant beasts, human-hating cyborgs, a horde of barbarians . . . nothing match the horror of what chases him.
The Jester, the king’s twin, hidden behind his painted face all these years because of a prophecy, is a man with dark powers. Gareth has stolen one of his objects of power, an ancient stone dubbed Demon’s Eye, and the Jester will not rest until he recovers it. Worse still, the insidious stone begins to twist his mind, and he faces a terrible decision. Using its powers might be the only way to save the last vestiges of civilization, but doing so might destroy everything.
