HBO's successful series Game of Thrones is based on George R. R. Martin's international bestseller A Song of Ice and Fire, the greatest fantasy epic of modern times. 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 submit to the will of the old tyrant Walder Frey if he wants to keep his crown. While his youngest sister Arya has escaped the clutches of the corrupt Cersei Lannister and her petulant son, the boy king Joffrey, Sansa Stark remains her prisoner. Meanwhile, Daenerys Stormborn, the last heir of the Dragon King, brings death to the cities of Astapor and Yunkai, which are involved in the slave trade, as she sails with vengeance in her heart towards Westeros.