Emperor Galant heard the merrymaking before he reached the palace walls. The sunlight had not yet faded from the golden spire, so Galant...

It was well past noon when the sun broke between the sycamores through the windows of a cottage low on the seaward side of the western...

Dawn broke on the hazy bay and in the tangled streets of Merendir, and the entire city seemed exhausted with anticipation. It was not yet...

Following the pace set by Berekker and the Islander soldier meant abandoning any notion of stealth, but Marta was drunk and the men were...