A Mirror for Princes Author:Tom de Haan "In a lonely remote peasant village, Reyhnard, third son of a morderous tyrant, whites of his past life and as a prince and king. It is the tale of a royal family doomed by the lust for power and the burdens imposed by that power; a king who has usurped his throne by murder and marriage; of the king's mistress; the narrator and his sister."