{"id":6512,"date":"2026-01-10T10:10:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/deryni-chronology-08-childe-morgan-kurtz-katherine\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:10:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:10:53","slug":"deryni-chronology-08-childe-morgan-kurtz-katherine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/deryni-chronology-08-childe-morgan-kurtz-katherine\/","title":{"rendered":"Deryni Chronology 08 &#8211; Childe Morgan &#8211; Kurtz, Katherine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='book-preview'>\n<h3>Book Preview<\/h3>\n<div class=\"annotation\">\n<p>In bestseller Kurtz&#8217;s morbid second tale of her new Deryni trilogy \u2014 following 2003&#8217;s <em>In the King&#8217;s Service<\/em> and set before the King Kelson novels \u2014 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 that Alyce and Kenneth de Morgan&#8217;s toddler son, Alaric, heir to Alyce&#8217;s Deryni magic, can be groomed to take Krispin&#8217;s place. Bishop Oliver de Nore&#8217;s brother, Septimus, was put to death by the king after Alyce used her powers to reveal that he orchestrated Krispin&#8217;s killing; now Oliver is doubly motivated to accelerate the church&#8217;s campaign to exterminate the Deryni, who are feared by many humans in the land of Gwynedd. Kurtz renders even the most plot-twisting demises more dreary than dramatic, which makes for terrific medieval realism but uninteresting narrative.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In bestseller Kurtz&#8217;s morbid second tale of her new Deryni trilogy \u2014 following 2003&#8217;s <em>In the King&#8217;s Service<\/em> and set before the King Kelson novels \u2014 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 that Alyce and Kenneth de Morgan&#8217;s toddler son, Alaric, heir to Alyce&#8217;s Deryni magic, can be groomed to take Krispin&#8217;s place. Bishop Oliver de Nore&#8217;s brother, Septimus, was put to death by the king after Alyce used her powers to reveal that he orchestrated Krispin&#8217;s killing; now Oliver is doubly motivated to accelerate the church&#8217;s campaign to exterminate the Deryni, who are feared by many humans in the land of Gwynedd. Kurtz renders even the most plot-twisting demises more dreary than dramatic, which makes for terrific medieval realism but uninteresting narrative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr style='margin: 30px 0; border-top: 1px solid #eee;'>\n<p style='text-align:center;'>Read the full book by downloading it below.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/download-is-starting\/?url=https%3A\/\/mega.co.nz\/%23%21wwhSXLRD%21Pq1g5nOQpPBnHTJEpFt9U-A-jVNOnj6UfFqieKrTMIw' class='download-btn' target='_blank'>DOWNLOAD EPUB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Preview In bestseller Kurtz&#8217;s morbid second tale of her new Deryni trilogy \u2014 following 2003&#8217;s In the King&#8217;s Service and set before the King Kelson novels \u2014 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 &#8230; <a title=\"Deryni Chronology 08 &#8211; Childe Morgan &#8211; Kurtz, Katherine\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/deryni-chronology-08-childe-morgan-kurtz-katherine\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Deryni Chronology 08 &#8211; Childe Morgan &#8211; Kurtz, Katherine\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[427],"class_list":["post-6512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-katherine-kurtz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}