The Duke

“The Duke” is a fantasy novel by Irina Uspenskaya, the second book in the cycle “Practical Psychology.” Genre: heroic fantasy, reincarnation.

In the temple, quarrels tear everything apart, and out on the frontier somewhere, a disgraced bastard of the last king lays the foundations of a new city, loses allies, and finds family. His enemies prepare a cell for him in the most prestigious prison and celebrate their victory. The time of change is coming— the time of the Destroyer. But the one appointed to this position, Alan Vallid, knows nothing about any of it. He is simply trying to survive in a world that is чужий to him. Survive out of spite against the gods playing their own game. And no one knows that within the body of the disgraced count lives the soul of a Russian woman—a woman who has learned to choose her own fate.