Book Preview JARAN NAMES HAVE BEEN transliterated into their Earth equivalencies. For instance, U’rhyinhias (pronounced You-rye-EEN-yas) has been simplified into Yurinya (pronounced You-RHEEN-ya or YOU-rhee). This has proved easier on the eye for those inexperienced in Xenolinguistics, as well as lending a certain flavor to the jaran culture because of this superficial similarity to a … Read more
Book Preview PROLOGUE BEYOND Gent, moving into the east toward the marchlands, the king’s progress journeyed slowly because of the immense damage caused by the great winds of autumn. Along the roads and in every village they passed through the regnant heard the same desperate complaints: the farmers dared not plant because frost kept coming … Read more
Book Preview FEATHER Cloak was fertile, the only pregnant woman left among her people. Indeed, she was the only woman living who had quickened more than once. Therefore, she presided over the council of tribes because she had power the others did not possess, power that had been draining from the land during their exile. … Read more
Book Preview PROLOUGE SHE dreamed. In the vault of heaven spin wheels of gold, winking and dazzling. The thrum of their turning births a wind that spills throughout creation, so hot and wet that it becomes a haze. This mist clears to reveal the tomb of the Emperor Taillefer, his carved effigy atop a marble … Read more
Book Preview KATE ELLIOT Child of Flame PROLOGUE OFF to the southeast, thunder rolled on and on. But in the broad ditch where three youths and two gravely injured soldiers had taken refuge from the battle, the rain had, mercifully, slackened. A wind out of the … Read more
Book Preview KATE ELLIOT **VOLUME Three of CROWN OF STARS** The Burning Stone PROLOGUE HE had ran this far without being caught, but he knew his Quman master still followed him. Convulsive shudders shook him where he huddled in the … Read more
Book Preview KATE ELLIOT **VOLUME Two of CROWN OF STARS** PRINCE OF DOGS PROLOGUE ALL spring they managed to stay alive by hiding in the abandoned tannery quarter, coming out only at night to scrounge for food. After a … Read more
Book Preview My thanks to Katharine Kerr for supplying me with a title when all seemed lost; to my husband, Jay Silverstein, for his continued support while he has himself been engaged in a great enterprise; to the Reverend Jeanne Reames Zimmerman, O.S.L., for her immense aid with matters classical and linguistic; to my sister, … Read more