Misery's Child (The Cadian Chronicles)
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Osane shot a quick glance towards her, then sighed.
“Perhaps. I don’t know. All I do know is that he’s in Varden’s chambers even now inciting him to war with Jeptalla for Scearce’s blasphemy.”
Osane walked to the door, then turned. “I shouldn’t be telling you this. You’re but a child and I’m sorry for your loss today. Rest here as long as you like, then go and see your mother. She’s been asking for you.”
“Where are you going? What are you going to do?”
“I have work to do, child. Someone has to be the voice of reason. I’m afraid the duty falls to me.”
With a flick of scarlet skirts, the dedre was gone.
Marta sank to the floor, suddenly too afraid to cry, her anger swept away by complete terror. Her father was dead and the Realm tottered on the brink of war. All because of Lillitha.
What would happen to her? What would happen to any of them?
For the first time in her life, Marta wished she was one of Oman’s true believers. She needed a god she could turn to now for even the smallest hope….
Instead, all she had was a sick certainty that things had gone very, very wrong.
So ends Book I of Misery’s Child
Table of Contents
Text Copyright © 2013 J. Belinda YandellAll Rights Reserved
As always, for my mother, Bobbie McMillian Yandell,
Foreword
Chapter 1: Consecratia
Chapter 2: Marta
Chapter 3: The Grail of the Dead
Chapter 4: Yannamarie
Chapter 5: A Visit from an Old Friend
Chapter 6: Scearce
Chapter 7: Osane
Chapter 8: The Single Moon
Chapter 9: The Road to Shamonoza
Chapter 10: Bandits
Chapter 11: Lillitha’s Return
Chapter 12: The Isle of Omana Teret
Chapter 13: The Golden Lock
Chapter 14: The Sisters of the Shadows
Chapter 15: The Ceremony of the Choosing
Chapter 16: The Flight and the Beginning of the End