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Beguilement (novel)

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Beguilement
Dust jacket of first edition (hardbound)
AuthorLois McMaster Bujold
Cover artistJulie Bell
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Sharing Knife, Vol. 1
GenreFantasy
PublisherEos (HarperCollins)
Publication date
10 October 2006
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint Hardbound & PaperbackAudiobook
Pages355 (first edition, hardbound)
ISBN0-06-113758-8
OCLC65197991
813/.54 22
LC ClassPS3552.U397 S54 2006
Followed byLegacy 

The Sharing Knife: Beguilement is a fantasy novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold, published in 2006. It is the first book in the series The Sharing Knife.

Plot

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Fawn, a farmer girl of about 20, has run away from her family, because another farmer has impregnated her and made it clear that he will not acknowledge the baby as his own. Dag, a Lakewalker patroller, first encounters Fawn hiding up in a tree. Later, they meet again, when Dag saves her from some slaves of a malice. Then she assists him in killing the malice, and, in the process, the ground of her unborn child creates a new sharing knife. Eventually, they realize that they are in love, against the customs of both their cultures, and the real story begins.