Book Preview Tadrith Skandrakae extended his broad gray wings, stretching out his muscles to their fullest extent to take best advantage of the warm wind beneath him. Freedom at last! I thought I’d never get away from that Section meeting. He banked just slightly to his left, slipping sideways for the best line. I know … Read more
Book Preview From crown to talons, tailtip to wingtip, it will be a sculpture of light. Skandranon Rashkae rested his beaked head atop his crossed foreclaws and contemplated the city across the bay. Although his city was considered dazzling at night by the most jaded of observers, even by day, White Gryphon was a city … Read more
Book Preview Cold wind played against Skandranons nares-a wind as frigid as the hearts of the killers below. Their hearts pumped blood unlike any other creatures; thick black blood, warmed when their commanders willed it-only when they flew, only when they hunted, only when they killed. Their blood was cold, and yet it ran warmer … Read more
Book Preview A shrill whistle caught Darians attention, and he looked up and over the lake of kValdemar Vale, shading his eyes with his hand. As he expected, he saw Snowfire waving at him from his balcony, three-quarters of the way up the side of the cliff that edged the far side of the lake. … Read more
Book Preview Keisha? When Keisha didnt answer, the fluting voice calling her name in the distance grew noticeably impatient. Keisha! Keisha Alder ignored her sister Shandis continued calls; she was in the middle of a job she had no intention of cutting short. The sharp smell of vinegar filled Keishas workshop, but she was so … Read more
Book Preview The air was warm, the summer day flawless, and Darian Firkin was stalling, trying to delay the inevitable, and he knew it. He had hopes that if he just lingered enough on this task of wood gathering, his Master might forget about him – or something more urgent than the next lesson might … Read more
Book Preview Dedication I dedicate this book to my wife, Taya, and my kids for sticking it out with me. Thanks for still being here when I got home. I’d also like to dedicate it to the memory of my SEAL brothers Marc and Ryan, for their courageous service to our country and their undying … Read more
Book Preview Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever. — Isaiah 30:8 I In the multitude of people is the king’s honour; but in the want of the people is the destruction of the … Read more
Book Preview PROLOGUE He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own bouse. Proverbs 15:27 M ark me well, my brother, for I tell you truly that Kelson of Gwynedd means to wed. He must, now that he has agreed to allow the return of Liam-Lajos to Torenth. The way of kings … Read more
Book Preview PROLOGUE Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. —Job 4:3 I I will make him my firstborn. —Psalms 89:27 II Open thy mouth, and drink what I give thee to drink. —II Esdras 14:38 III Many seek the ruler’s favor. —Proverbs 29:26 IV It is good to keep … Read more
Book Preview THE KING’S JUSTICE PROLOGUE And the king shall do according to his will. —Daniel 11:30 “I tell you, he isn’t going to change his mind,” the Deryni Bishop Arilan said, slapping the ivory table with both palms for emphasis as his gaze swept the three men and three women seated with … Read more
Book Preview THE BISHOP’S HEIR PROLOGUE And he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal for a cloak. — Isaiah 59:17 Edmund Loris, once the Archbishop of Valoret and Primate of All Gwynedd, stared out to sea through the salt-smeared windowpanes of his tower prison and allowed … Read more
Book Preview The sword liereaveth, at home there is death. The name they had given the boy was Royston Royston Richardson, after his father and the dagger he clutched so fearfully in the deepening twilight was not his own. Around him in the fields of Jennan Vale, the bodies of the dead lay stiffening among … Read more
Book Preview Three things there are which defy prediction: a woman’s whims, the touch of the Devil’s finger, and the weather of Gwynedd in March. MARCH HAS long been a month of storms in the Eleven Kingdoms. It brings the snow sweeping down from the great northern sea to layer a last coat of winter … Read more
Book Preview CARL M. SELLE who knew all along that it would begin this way. .Published by Ballantine Books Copyright (c) 1970 by Katherine Kurtz All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by BaUantine Books, a division of Random House, Iflc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by … Read more
Book Preview For the many followers of the Deryni, and especially the fans who faithfully gather in Chat on Sunday evenings at 7:00 p.m. (eastern standard time) at rhemuthcastle.com, especially Bynw, Shiral, Evie, The Bee, Jemler, Desert Rose, cynicalmedic, Alkari, AnnieUK, Laurna, kirienne, Elkhound, DomMelchior, Aerlys, Jerusha, and the many others whose names have momentarily … Read more
Book Preview In bestseller Kurtz’s morbid second tale of her new Deryni trilogy — following 2003’s In the King’s Service and set before the King Kelson novels — King Donal Haldane is mourning the loss of his bastard son, Krispin, a boy he thought would be companion and protector to Crown Prince Brion, and hoping … Read more
Book Preview “Kurtz is one of the best of those fantasy writers who use medieval-like settings for their novels, and this is one of her better books”. — Chronicle. “Kurtz’s fidelity to the customs and mores of medieval Europe gives a richness of detail to her alternate medieval world”. — Library Journal. “Exquisitely detailed… the scenes of … Read more