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
Book Preview Prologue He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him; he hath broken his covenant. I Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. II Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. III And if it be meet that I go … Read more
Book Preview RNRQCWFJHE Kurtz, Katherine – Heirs of Saint Camber 2 – King Javan’s Year 1-2-2004 THE MAGIC OF THE KING “Excellency, may I speak with you?’ Javan said. “I-have need of a priest.’ Archbishop Huber lowered his bulk into the largest of the three chairs set before the fire. He gestured for Javan to … Read more
Book Preview WHO SHALL KNOW A SAINT Evaine sank to her knees beside the body of her father. Camber’s well-loved face was peaceful in repose. It was nearly a week since she had found him in the snow, but there was no sign of corruption. Joram set his hand on her shoulder as he … Read more
Book Preview Camber drew back and watched Dom Queron blink and tense for just an instant in sheer, naked panic, then twist around and stare at Rhys in undisguised horror. Emrys looked equally stunned, the only time Camber had ever seen the abbot’s composure shaken. “Sweet Jesu, what have you done to me?” Queron cried, … Read more
Book Preview Camber could feel himself slipping even deeper into trance. Images formed and reformed on the blackness of the spellbound water before him, only to fade before he could read them. But he must read them. He dared not fail. At the very limits of awareness, he touched Ariella’s sleeping mind. And abruptly he … Read more
Book Preview Volume I in The Legends of Camber of Culdi In the multitude of people is the kings honour; but in the want of the people is the destruction of the prince. Though it was but late September, a wintry wind howled and battered at the ramparts of Tor Caerrorie, rattling the narrow, glazed … Read more
Book Preview Katherine Kurtz – Adept 05 – Death of an Adept Mystic and historian, Sir Adam Sinclair is Master of the Hunt, leader of a secret brotherhood at war with the dark and unholy Powers that menace our world. In his time, he has challenged the forces of evil and been victorious. … Read more