A Game of Thrones

When King Robert Baratheon names his old friend Eddard Stark the Hand of the King, Ned trades Winterfell's solitude for the treachery of King's Landing, where a dead Hand's secret threatens House Lannister itself. Across the Narrow Sea, exiled Daenerys Targaryen is married into the Dothraki horde to win back a throne she has never seen. The first novel of A Song of Ice and Fire sets a war for the Iron Throne against an ancient cold stirring beyond the Wall.