A Storm of Swords, Part 2: Blood and Gold

The Stark family is scattered across the Seven Kingdoms and beyond. Robb Stark holds the title of King in the North, but keeping it means bowing to the demands of Walder Frey.

Arya has slipped away from Cersei and Joffrey. Her sister Sansa has no such luck and stays at court as their captive.

Across the sea, Daenerys Stormborn, the last heir of the Dragon King, is making her way towards Westeros. Along the route she brings death to the slave-trading cities of Astapor and Yunkai.

In the UK and several other markets, A Storm of Swords, third book of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, came out as two paperbacks. This one is the latter volume. It picks up directly from Steel and Snow and is best read after it.

The story moves between rotating points of view, as the series does throughout. The full novel won the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Robb's crown depends on a man he must placate, while two sisters sit at opposite ends of the same danger.