Luck in the Shadows
The Nightrunner Series, Book I
Published on 3. November 2010
496 pages
978-0-307-77499-6 (ISBN)
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"A new star is rising in the fantasy firmament...teems with magic and spine-chilling amounts of skullduggery."-Dave Duncan, author of The Great Game
When young Alec of Kerry is taken prisoner for a crime he didn't commit, he is certain that his life is at an end. But one thing he never expected was his cellmate. Spy, rogue, thief, and noble, Seregil of Rhiminee is many things-none of them predictable. And when he offers to take on Alec as his apprentice, things may never be the same for either of them. Soon Alec is traveling roads he never knew existed, toward a war he never suspected was brewing. Before long he and Seregil are embroiled in a sinister plot that runs deeper than either can imagine, and that may cost them far more than their lives if they fail. But fortune is as unpredictable as Alec's new mentor, and this time there just might be...Luck in the Shadows.
When young Alec of Kerry is taken prisoner for a crime he didn't commit, he is certain that his life is at an end. But one thing he never expected was his cellmate. Spy, rogue, thief, and noble, Seregil of Rhiminee is many things-none of them predictable. And when he offers to take on Alec as his apprentice, things may never be the same for either of them. Soon Alec is traveling roads he never knew existed, toward a war he never suspected was brewing. Before long he and Seregil are embroiled in a sinister plot that runs deeper than either can imagine, and that may cost them far more than their lives if they fail. But fortune is as unpredictable as Alec's new mentor, and this time there just might be...Luck in the Shadows.
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Lynn Flewelling grew up in Presque Isle, Maine. Since receiving a degree in English from the University of Maine in 1981, she has studied veternary medicine at Oregon State, classical Greek at Georgetown University, and worked as a personnel generalist, landlord, teacher, necropsy technician, advertising copywriter, and freelance journalist, more or less in that order. She currently lives in western New York.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Author's Note
- Map
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: Luck in the Shadows
- Chapter 2: Across the Downs
- Chapter 3: Seregil Makes an Offer
- Chapter 4: Wolde
- Chapter 5: Friends Met, Enemies Made
- Chapter 6: Alec Earns His Bow
- Chapter 7: South to Boersby
- Chapter 8: The Captain and the Lady
- Chapter 9: The Lady Is Indisposed
- Chapter 10: Seregil Descending
- Chapter 11: Dark Pursuit
- Chapter 12: Alone
- Chapter 13: Inquiries Are Made
- Chapter 14: Sailing South
- Chapter 15: Rhíminee at Last
- Chapter 16: Dinner With Nysander
- Chapter 17: Watcher Business
- Chapter 18: Around the Ring
- Chapter 19: Uneasy Secrets
- Chapter 20: Homecoming
- Chapter 21: Swords and Etiquette
- Chapter 22: One Horse, Two Swans, and Three Daughters
- Chapter 23: A Little Night Work
- Chapter 24: Watermead
- Chapter 25: Return to rhíminee
- Chapter 26: Plans at the Cockerel
- Chapter 27: Hind Street
- Chapter 28: A Midnight Inquisition
- Chapter 29: An Abrupt change of Scenery
- Chapter 30: Down to Business at Last
- Chapter 31: Kassarie
- Chapter 32: Nasty Surprises
- Chapter 33: Among the Scavengers
- Chapter 34: Phoria's Confession
- Chapter 35: Cirna
- Chapter 36: Trouble on the Highroad
- Chapter 37: Backtracking
- Chapter 38: The Key to a Poor Girl's Heart
- Chapter 39: The Tower
- Chapter 40: Flight
- Chapter 41: Scars
- About the Author
