Glenraven (Hardcover)
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ISBN: 0671877380 / Publisher: Baen, September 1996
Sophie, seeking solace after losing a child, and Jay Jay, who wants to get away from it all when her third marriage fails, become unwitting heroes in the magical kingdom of Glenraven when they help its people to overthrow a monster ruler
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Sophie had lost a child. She was looking for peace and rest. She didn't know what it was, but Glenraven promised her that.JayJay had bad luck with husbands - a three-time loser now, all she wanted was to be a million miles away from her small North Carolina town.Glenraven. It seemed to be an Alpine principality somewhere in the neighborhood of northern Italy - according to the unique guidebook advertising its charms, and indeed obscure, almost non-traversable Alpine passages constituted the only way in. But in reality Glenraven was a magic kingdom detached from our world - a magic kingdom in trouble.All the people of Glenraven wanted was a couple of heroes from the outside to free them from a millennium of rule under a dictator compared to whom Vlad the Impaler was Santa Claus. What the people of Glenraven got were JayJay and Sophie.
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