Bloodtide

In the not-too-distant future, in a London wracked by war, famine, economic collapse, and chaos, two warring families--the Volsons and the Conors--vie for control, until a proposed agreement to cement an alliance with the marriage of young Signy Volson to the rival Conor, but new treachery soon threatens to unleash a bloodbath on the city. Reprint.