Blood of Amber (Chronicles of Amber: The Merlin Cycle, Book II)

**Book 7 of the Chronicles of Amber.** Merlin, pursued by furies, searches through Shadow for his enemies, his friends, and his father. The question remains: will he know one from the other, when he finds them? Or has he fallen down a rabbit-hole of illusion and deception, where nothing is quite what it seems? Pursued by a fiendish enemy Merle must battle through an intricate web of vengeance and murder that threatens more than just the bay area. For Merle Corey of San Francisco is also Merlin, son of Corwin, vanished Prince of Amber; and the forces, seeking to destroy the Royal House, have unleashed mad sorceries than can strike anywhere. Even the heart of Amber. . Merle Corey, hero of Trumps of Doom (1985), escapes from prison with the help of a woman who has many shapes. Merle Corey escapes from prison into Amber, a world of wonders and confusions where friends and foes are sometimes indistinguishable, where a man is out to kill him and a woman to help him. This is the seventh Amber novel