Paperback. Pub Date :2014-03-27 Pages: 656 Language: English Publisher: Harper Collins HBO"s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George RR Martin"s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE. the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age A STORM OF SWORDS:. BLOOD AND GOLD is the SECOND part of the third volume in the series The Starks are scattered Robb Stark may be King in the North. but he must bend to the will of the old tyrant Walder Frey if.. he is to hold his crown. And while his youngest sister. Arya. has escaped the clutches of the depraved Cersei Lannister and her son. the capricious boy-king Joffrey. Sansa Stark remains their captive. Meanwhile. across the ocean. Daenerys Stormborn. the last heir of the Dragon King. delivers death to the slave-trading cities of Astapor and Yunkai as she approaches Westeros with vengeance in her heart.