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One Mountain, Two Tigers — Vol 3
by Jeff Olsen
Ten men who all claim to be the prince stand in one hall, and only one thing can prove it. A woman in the capital has run out of patience and out of time. And a girl who cannot see is the only person who has worked out what the twins are.
Everything arrives at once.
A household on the river loses its people one by one. A woman in the capital, doing arithmetic nobody else can see, decides there is no longer time to be careful — and moves against a princess with something worse than a lie: the truth. An old exchange in a sealed house, twenty-three years ago, witnessed by handmaidens who never understood what they saw.
You cannot lie to an Emperor. An Emperor cannot kill his own princess. So he takes everything from her instead and puts her out into the street, where nobody recognises her, and it rains.
And in a hall in front of the throne, ten men who all claim to be the Crown Prince are made to stand together, because there is one proof left and it is written on their shoulders.
Volume Three of three. Parts Seven to Nine — The House Comes Apart, The Proof and the Fall, and The Petition.
It ends with a petition, a wedding, and an Emperor who has to pause before he can finish saying my little princess.
A complete screenplay adaptation of this novel is also available from the author.
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