Chapters (73)
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- 1 ON ORDINARY LANES AND BEHIND UNPROTECTED WALLS
- 2 THE DEPUTY COURIER
- 3 A THIRD PRESENCE
- 4 THE HOLYSTONE PAVEMENT
- 5 THE HAUNT
- 6 THE MOON-BRIGHT MIRAGE
- 7 THE SOLE FRAGILE DEFENSE
- 8 THE SPORE
- 9 THREE WELL-SPRUNG CARRIAGES
- 10 A SWIRLING RIOT OF ACTIVITY
- 11 OF COURSE HE WAS HANDSOME
- 12 A GAMBIT TO RUIN HIM
- 13 A SLICE OF FESTIVAL CAKE
- 14 ORDER CREATES TRANQUILITY
- 15 THE THIRD ATONER
- 16 A FALSE AND ROTTEN HEART
- 17 BAIT
- 18 ALL WE HAD TO LOSE WAS OUR LIVES
- 19 THE OPENING
- 20 THERE IS ANOTHER WAY
- 21 AN EFFUSION OF UGLY SATISFACTION
- 22 BEST ADMIRED FROM A DISTANCE
- 23 SOMETHING HAD CAUGHT IN HIS THROAT
- 24 TO THIS DAY
- 25 THE THIEF
- 26 A PRAGMATIC SUGGESTION
- 27 DESTINED TO BE A CHARMING ADVENTURE AND NOT A TEDIOUS SLOG
- 28 SHOULD THEY LIVE THAT LONG
- 29 A PERILOUS DELIGHT
- 30 THAT UNEASY TIME
- 31 TEARS ARE A LUXURY
- 32 WISHFUL THINKING
- 33 EVEN IF THEY DO NOT LOOK IT
- 34 A SLOWLY HEAVING MOVEMENT
- 35 THE SOBER SEARCH FOR TRUTH
- 36 THE CONUNDRUM SHE WRESTLED WITH
- 37 FIVE BASKETS FULL!
- 38 SOMEWHERE AMONG THE ROCKS
- 39 THE MORNING OF THEIR DEATH
- 40 THE CLOUDBERRY BREW
- 41 THEIR PURSUERS
- 42 A SWALTER DELVING
- 43 THE ROPE BRIDGE
- 44 DON’T LOOK DOWN
- 45 THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY
- 46 A MORE COMPLICATED STORY
- 47 THE AFTERMATH
- 48 INTRUSIVE AND RUDE
- 49 A DOUSE OF ICY WATER
- 50 MORE LIKE A JOKE
- 51 AS THE EMPIRE DECREES
- 52 IF THAT IS YOUR PREFERENCE
- 53 THE VIGIL
- 54 NO ANSWER
- 55 A WILD AND ALLURING STORY
- 56 THE PULSE OF THE EMPIRE
- 57 HALF-TOLD LIES AND FRAGMENTS OF TRUTH
- 58 THE GREAT LINEAGES
- 59 A FUNNEL CLOUD
- 60 BATH
- 61 A PINCH OF JEALOUSY
- 62 TOO MANY BLANK SPOTS
- 63 THE LAST VIGIL
- 64 THE BEAT OF ITS HEART
- 65 THE DISTURBED VIPER
- 66 IMAGINE THERE IS A NAMELESS LAND
- 67 THE PERFECT WEAPON
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Also by Kate Elliott
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- Newsletter Sign-up
Spirit Gate
Shadow Gate
Traitors’ Gate
THE CROWN OF STARS SERIES
King’s Dragon
Prince of Dogs
The Burning Stone
Child of Flame
The Gathering Storm
In the Ruins
Crown of Stars
THE NOVELS OF THE JARAN
Jaran
An Earthly Crown
His Conquering Sword
The Law of Becoming
THE HIGHROAD TRILOGY
A Passage of Stars
Revolution’s Shore
The Price of Ransom
THE SUN CHRONICLES
Unconquerable Sun
Furious Heaven
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
KATE ELLIOTT has been publishing fiction for more than thirty years, with a particular focus on immersive world-building and epic stories of adventure and transformative cultural change. She’s written fantasy; science fiction; space opera based on the life of Alexander the Great (Unconquerable Sun); young adult fantasy; the seven-volume (complete!) Crown of Stars epic fantasy series set in a landscape reminiscent of early medieval Europe; the Afro-Celtic post-Roman alternate-history fantasy with lawyer dinosaurs, Cold Magic; and two novellas set in the Magic: The Gathering multiverse. Her work has been nominated for the Nebula, World Fantasy, Andre Norton, and Locus Awards. Her novel Black Wolves won the 2015 RT Award for Best Epic Fantasy Novel. She lives in Hawaii, paddles outrigger canoes, and spoils her Schnauzer. You can sign up for email updates here.
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