CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

MAP

PROLOGUE

Part One
THE DEEP DARK OF THE SEA

Chapter One SIMPLICITY ITSELF

Chapter Two THE SLAVER

Chapter Three HOMECOMING

Chapter Four BAR HETHRUN’S CHILDREN

Chapter Five A MATTER OF SHIPS

Chapter Six BOATS IN THE MIST

Chapter Seven THE NECESSITIES OF WAR

Chapter Eight THE ROAD SOUTH

Chapter Nine THE EMBRUN RIVER

Chapter Ten GHOSTS OF MEMORY

Part Two
KING OF THIEVES

Chapter Eleven COLDER THAN KEUTTA

Chapter Twelve CLIMBING A WALL

Chapter Thirteen THE QUEEN OF BIONAR

Chapter Fourteen PICTURES IN THE DARK

Chapter Fifteen THE DANCE BEFORE DAWN

Chapter Sixteen A GAUNTLET OF GUNS

Chapter Seventeen THE DARK HORSE

Chapter Eighteen THE MOUNTAIN ROAD

Chapter Nineteen THE BEGGARS OF THE SEA

Chapter Twenty THE BLACK SHIP

Chapter Twenty-one THE MARK OF RAN


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ALSO BY PAUL KEARNEY

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