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The Quest for Saint Camber

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1986
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Fantasy fiction
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Prologue - Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. -Job 4:3
I - I will make him my firstborn. -Psalms 89:27
II - Open thy mouth, and drink what I give thee to drink. -II Esdras 14:38
III - Many seek the ruler's favor. -Proverbs 29:26
IV - It is good to keep close the secret of a king. -Tobit 12:7
V - A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry. -Ecclesiastes 10:19
VI - For he offereth the bread of thy God; he shall be holy unto thee. -Leviticus 21:8
VII - Ye have set at naught all my counsel. -Proverbs 1:25
VIII - Teach me, and I will hold my tongue. -Job 6:24
IX - An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. -Proverbs 20:21
X - A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness. -Joel 2:2
XI - We will return and build the desolate places. -Malachi 1:4
XII - The way of a fool is right in his own eyes. -Proverbs 12:15
XIII - Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee. -Job 33:7
XIV - Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave. -Job 33:22
XV - I am clean without transgression, I am innocent. -Job 33:9
XVI - Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. -Proverbs 19:18
XVII - And they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son. -Zechariah 12:10
XVIII - The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. -Proverbs 4:19
XIX - Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. -Proverbs 9:17
XX - The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. -Proverbs 21:6
XXI - They have pierced my hand. -Psalms 22:16
XXII - If I wait, the grave is my house. -Job 17:13
XXIII - Fear not the sentence of death, remember them that have been before thee, and that come after. -Ecclesiasticus 41:3
XXIV - And his brightness was as the light... and there was the hiding of his powers. -Habakkuk 3:4
XXV - Do no secret thing before a stranger: for thou knowest not what he will bring forth. -Ecclesiasticus 8:18
XXVI - In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men. -Job 33:15
XXVII - Ask now the priests concerning the law. -Haggai 2:11
XXVIII - A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. -Proverbs 20:8
Epilogue - Thou hast granted me life and favor, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. -Job 10:12
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 Deryni*
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 Histories of King Kelson
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Histories of King Kelson     See series as if on a bookshelf
A series within the Deryni world.

1) The Bishop's Heir
2) The King's Justice
3) The Quest for Saint Camber
4) King Kelson's Bride
Copyright © 1986 by Katherine Kurtz
For
Chevalier Scott Roderick MacMillan, GCJJ
"Steel True,
Blade Straight,
A Knight."
Thunder rumbled not far away, low and ominous, as Prince Conall Haldane, first cousin to King Kelson of Gwynedd, pulled up with his squire in the meager shelter of a winter-bare tree and huddled deeper into his oiled leather cloak, squinting against the spatter of increasingly large raindrops.
May contain spoilers
Perhaps the quest for Saint Camber was not ended after all, but was just beginning.
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Added: 06-Aug-2019
Last Updated: 17-Oct-2023

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 01-Sep-1987
Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Sep-1987
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$3.95
Pages*:
436
Internal ID:
33343
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-345-30099-8
ISBN-13:
978-0-345-30099-7
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Shelly Shapiro - Map
Darrell K Sweet  - Cover Artist
THE IMPOSSIBLE SAINT


Time after time, the legendary Camber - one-time Saint of the half-magic race of Deryni - had intervened in the affairs of young Kelson, King of Gwynedd.  Yet Camber was known to have died two hundred years before!

Now Kelson set forth with his blood brother Dhugal to search out relics of this mysterious patron of his, leaving his uncle Nigel to rule in his absence.

Then word came that Kelson and Dhugal had fallen from a crumbling cliff during a storm.  No trace of their bodies could be found in the raging waters below.  The king was dead and Nigel must become king.

But to Conall, son of Nigel, the temptation of the throne was too great.  In rage, he struck down his father with secretly gained Deryni power.  Now he would be king!

But Conall had overlooked Saint Camber...

FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK
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Notes and Comments:
First Hardcover Edition: September 1986
First Mass Market Edition: September 1987
Presumed first printing - back cover: "FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK"

Includes:
Appendix I: Index of Characters
Appendix II: Index of Places
Appendix III: Partial Lineage of the Haldane Kings
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01-Sep-1987
Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback

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Author(s)

 Katherine Kurtz
Birth: 18 Oct 1944 Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Notes:
From About the Author in Bishop's Heir:

Katherine Kurtz was awarded a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Miami and attended medical school for a year before deciding she would rather write about medicine than practice it.  She earned an M.A. in medieval English history from UCLA while writing her first two novels, and worked as an instructional designer for the Los Angeles Police Academy for the next ten years.  She is also a professionally trained hypnotist, an avid horsewoman, and an avowed cat person.  She has a husband who wears kilts, a ten-year-old son named Cameron, a vintage Bentley motorcar once owned by HRH the Duke of Kent, and hopes soon to live in a castle in Ireland.  Besides the Deryni Trilogy, the Camber Trilogy, and several short stories set in the Deryni universe, she has recently published a World War II thriller, Lammas Night, dealing with magic worked to keep Hitler from invading England in the summer of 1940.  She is currently at work on the second and third books of the Histories of King Kelson, with at least two more trilogies planned.

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