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龍后丹妮莉絲帶領所剩無幾的族人，乘船航向維斯特洛大陸；她用盡一切努力招兵買馬，並苦苦等待小龍茁壯，以助她復國大業。布蘭的狼夢漸趨頻繁，在夢裡，他化身為狼、自由奔跑。然而夢醒之後，他又是那名落難的王子、被追捕的臨冬城遺孤。

南至君臨，在被蘭尼斯特雄獅佔據的皇城之中，喬佛里將迎娶提利爾家的瑪格麗，珊莎雖逃離暴君的魔爪，卻被許配給在黑水灣之戰中面目全非的小惡魔提利昂。遠在北境，於奔流城與攣河城聯姻前夕，羅柏將一名陌生女子帶到凱特琳面前，宣稱她是自己的真命天女。

凱特琳因兒子的舉動感到惶惶不安、終日難眠。原本將締結姻緣的兩大家族，都因此蒙上了陰影。瓊恩雖然遭擄，但統治境外的王者卻非他所想像殘暴不仁；艾莉亞成功逃離赫倫堡，身後仍有冷血無情的追兵跟隨，但她一路向北，依舊抱持著終有一日回歸故園的想望……


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A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: BOOK THREE

Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the Seven Kingdoms.

His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, victim of the sorceress who holds him in her thrall. Young Robb still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons left in the world.

And as opposing forces maneuver for the final showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost limits of civilization, accompanied by a horde of mythical Others—a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable.

As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords.