Mars has grown to be divided through love. Not one, but two princes and a Jeddak are vying for the love of Thuvia of Ptarth. When she is mysteriously abducted, treachery threatens to throw Barsoom into bloody warfare. Now Cathoris should observe inside the footsteps of his father, John Carter, and conquer phantom armies, dangerous spies and savage beasts as he attempts to save his proper love and reunite Mars. The fourth Martian novel from Burroughs.Excerpt:Upon a huge bench of polished ersite under the appropriate blooms of a large pimalia, a girl sat. Her shapely, sandalled foot tapped impatiently upon the jewel-strewn walk that wound underneath the stately sorapus timber throughout the scarlet sward of the royal gardens of Thuvan Dihn, Jeddak of Ptarth, as a darkish-haired, crimson-skinned warrior bent low closer to her, whispering heated phrases close to her ear. "Ah, Thuvia of Ptarth," he cried, "you are cold even before the fiery blasts of my consuming love! No tougher than your heart, nor colder is the difficult, cold ersite of this thrice satisfied bench which helps your divine and fadeless form! Tell me, O Thuvia of Ptarth, that I may additionally still wish-that though you do not love me now, yet a few days, someday, my princess, I-" The girl sprang to her toes with an exclamation of surprise and displeasure. Her queenly head changed into poised haughtily upon her smooth purple shoulders. Her darkish eyes looked angrily into those of the person.
