Been reading the Dagger and the Coin series by Daniel Abraham. It's a slightly different take on epic fantasy, where one of the main characters is a girl who grew up in a banking household. She was raised to be a banker, so much of the intrigue is related to finance and banking at the time. There is some little magic, but not much at all. The plots are mostly courtly intrigue, wars, border plots, murder, and of course the financial aspect of the kingdoms.
Written very well indeed.
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