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      The Wicked Day

      by Mary Stewart
      Published
      Oct 1983
      Main Genre
      Paranormal Romance Paranormal Romance
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      370
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      Merlin & Arthur Saga Book 4

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      The Wicked Day is the gripping story of Mordred, bastard son of King Arthur by incest with his half-sister Morgause, witch-queen of Lothian and Orkney. Morgause sent the child to the Orkney Islands to be reared there in secret, in the hope that one day he would become, as Merlin the Enchanter had prophesied, the doom of her hated half-brother.

      When Mordred is taken from his rude life as a fisherboy in the islands and suddenly thrust into the full panoply of the High King Arthur's court, he learns of his true parentage and rises to a position of trust in his father's kingdom. But, as the plots and counterplots of the last part of Arthur's reign unfold, Mordred is drawn into the tangled web of tragedy that is the climactic drama of the Arthurian legend.

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      Genres & Themes

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      Speculative Fiction

      Subgenres

      Epic Fantasy Historical

      Themes

      Arthurian Legend

      Characters & Occupations

      Celts Witch / Warlock / Mage / Wizard

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      Jul 1984 Fawcett ISBN13 9780449205198 ISBN10 0449205193
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      Jan 1984 G.K. Hall & Company ISBN13 9780816136841 ISBN10 081613684X
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