Chapters (75)
- Praise
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- WEAVER OF DREAMS - Long, long ago . . .
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- THE PRINCE OF EBON RIH - This story takes place after the events in Heir to the Shadows
- ONE
- TWO
- THREE
- FOUR
- FIVE
- SIX
- SEVEN
- EIGHT
- NINE
- TEN
- ELEVEN
- TWELVE
- THIRTEEN
- FOURTEEN
- FIFTEEN
- SIXTEEN
- SEVENTEEN
- EIGHTEEN
- NINETEEN
- TWENTY
- TWENTY-ONE
- TWENTY-TWO
- TWENTY-THREE
- TWENTY-FOUR
- ZUULAMAN - A story from Saetan’s past
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- KAELEER’S HEART - This story takes place after the events in Queen of the Darkness
- 1
- TWO
- THREE
- 1
- 1
- SIX
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- SIXTEEN
- SEVENTEEN
- Present
She pulled back. Her eyes danced with laughter as she bared her teeth and snarled at him.
His laughter filled the room. He scooped her up and spun her around. When he finally set her on her feet again, she clutched his jacket and swore at him.
He grinned at her as the people around them laughed and applauded. “That’s my feisty hearth witch.”
ZUULAMAN - A story from Saetan’s past
ZUULAMAN
A story from Saetan’s past
Chapter 1
1
Saetan set aside the latest letter from the Zuulaman ambassador, leaned back in the chair behind his blackwood desk, and rubbed his eyes. A half dozen meetings with the man and nothing had changed. The same complaints filled this letter as had filled the last three. He understood the concerns, even sympathized with them up to a point. But he wouldn’t order Dhemlan merchants to buy coral and pearls exclusively from Zuulaman traders at a higher price than other Territories offered to sell sea gems of the same quality. He’d already checked on the complaints that Dhemlan ships were encroaching on the fishing grounds that belonged to the Zuulaman Islands. Hayllian ships were certainly plying the same waters and competing for catches, but the Queens who ruled the fishing towns in Dhemlan were quick to penalize any boat that fished beyond the Territory’s established waters—just as they were quick to send the Warlord Princes who served them out to confiscate the catch of any boat that encroached on Dhemlan’s fishing grounds.
Of course, he hadn’t heard so much as a whisper of complaint about Hayll. Not yet, anyway. Sooner or later, the Zuulaman Queens would become less enamored with Hayll’s Hundred Families—the aristo families that heavily influenced the Hayllian courts if they didn’t rule them outright. He might be Hayllian by birth, might have lived his early years in the slums of Draega, Hayll’s capital, but, thank the Darkness, he’d shed himself of that self-centered race centuries ago. For the most part. He had no interest in the Hundred Families, except to keep a watchful eye on their intrigues to be sure the people he ruled came to no harm because of them.