By Andrew Mayden
A Brightness Long Ago is the latest fantasy novel by Guy Gavriel Kay. It is set in the same world that contain most of his other novels. However, it is not necessary to be familiar with that world, all the information you need for these characters and this world is included in the book.
The opening chapter reads almost like a stand alone short story and is probably intended as a hook. It introduces the narrator and tells of his boss allowing a woman to enter the bedchamber of their lord where she proceeds to murder him. He is the one to discover her and because the lord is a very bad man, helps her flee.
Andrew Mayden 
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