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The Arkhel Conundrum (The Tears of Artamon Book 4)

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by Ash, Sarah


  Bogatyr Askold (leader of the druzhina)

  Gorian One-Eye, Askold’s second-in-command

  Semyon, lieutenant

  Dunai, Askold’s son (steward of Kastel Nagarian)

  Vasili, Dunai’s younger brother

  Vartik, Ilsi’s younger brother

  Tarakh and Radakh, Gorian’s twin sons

  Ivar and Movar, grooms

  Ilsi, housekeeper of Kastel Nagarian

  Sosia, Kiukiu’s aunt

  Ninusha, housemaid

  Kion, Ninusha’s baby son (by Lieutenant Andars of Tielen)

  Lord Boris Stoyan, boyar of Azhkendir and governor of Azhgorod

  Oris Avorian, the Nagarian family lawyer

  Abbot Yephimy of Saint Serzhei’s Monastery

  TOURMALISE

  Lilias Arbelian/Arkhel, an adventuress from Muscobar

  Dysis, her maid and companion

  Lord Ranulph Arkhel

  The Hon. Lady Tanaisie, his wife (Tansie) nee Caradas

  Toran Arkhel, their son and heir

  Fleurie and Clarisse Arkhel, Toran’s younger sisters

  Ryndin, Iarko, Temir, retainers

  Captain Montpelier, Master of Ceremonies at the Sulien Pump Room

  Aristide Touchet, bailiff

  Cardin’s Iron Works in Paladur

  Gerard Bernay, ingenieur

  Rasse Cardin, owner of the Iron Works

  Mahieu, foreman of the Iron Works

  Paladur Military Academy

  The Hon. Elyot Branville, Second Year cadet

  Lorris, Aubin, Morsan, First and Second Year cadets

  Colonel Mouzillon

  Major Bauldry

  KHITARI

  Chinua, tea merchant, shapeshifter and shaman (his name means ‘wolf’)

  Khulan, praise singer to Khan Vachir

  TIELEN/ROSSIYA

  Emperor Eugene

  Empress Astasia

  Crown Prince Rostevan (their baby son)

  Princess Karila

  Stavyomir Arkhel, Lilias’s young son, the Emperor’s ward

  Count Gustave, private secretary to the Emperor

  Baron Sylvius, imperial spymaster

  Chancellor Maltheus, chief minister

  Colonel Nils Lindgren

  Lovisa, Countess of Aspelin (Eugene’s cousin)

  Tielborg University

  Professor Altan Kazimir

  Doctor Guy Maulevrier

  SAPAUDIA (canton of Allegonde)

  Kaspar Linnaius, the Magus

  Azhkanizkael, Nahaliel, Serapiel, Auphiel and Asamkis, his wouivres

  In Exile in Serindher

  Andrei Orlov, the Empress’s brother

  Oskar Alvborg, the Emperor’s illegitimate half-brother

  Guardians of the Second Heaven (Raquia)

  Prince Galizur, Ruling Prince of the Second Heaven

  Ardarel, Angel of Fire

  Taliahad, Angel of Water (of the Seven Seas)

  Sehibiel, Angel of Healing

  A modified version of the Prologue and Chapter 8 first appeared as “Song for a Naming Day” in the anthology Anniversaries edited by Ian Whates and Ian Watson (2010) Newcon Press

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  My thanks to my editor, Colin Murray for his attention to detail and asking those essential questions every writer needs to be reminded of!

  For the breathtakingly beautiful cover art, my thanks go to Edward Miller (and Les and Val Edwards)

  For the distinctive wouivre chapter header my thanks go to the ever-creative Marcelle Natisin

  And my thanks to Chantal Chevalier and all at eBook Partnership too!

  The Arkhel Conundrum is dedicated to all those kind readers who liked The Tears of Artamon enough to ask me what happened next to Gavril, Kiukiu, Eugene and Kaspar Linnaius. The tale is far from finished...and will continue in Book 5...

  Sarah Ash

  www.sarah-ash.com

  Moths to a Flame

  Songspinners

  The Lost Child

  The Tears of Artamon Trilogy

  1/ Lord of Snow and Shadows

  2/Prisoner of the Iron Tower

  3/Children of the Serpent Gate

  4/ The Arkhel Conundrum

  Alchymist’s Legacy

  1/ Tracing the Shadow

  2/ Flight into Darkness

  Tide Dragons (2014-16)

  1/ The Flood Dragon’s Sacrifice

  2/ Emperor of the Fireflies

  Scent of Lilies 2019 (published by Manifold Press)

 

 

 


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