This collection includes the first three short stories in the explosive, award-winning action thriller series Seventeen.First Death1570. Carpathian Mountains, Moldavia.Ten-year-old Lucas's life is a simple but happy one. All that changes when the Hunters finally track down his whereabouts.Forced to bear witness to horrific scenes that forever shatter his innocence, he discovers the shocking secret behind his less than ordinary existence. What follows is a fight for survival that will define the nature of a boy bound to an incredible destiny whose origins have been lost to the tides of time.Dancing Blades1624. Edo period. Japan.When hunted half-breed immortal Lucas Soul hears tales of legendary samurai Musashi Miyamoto during his travels in the Far East, he sails to Japan to meet the great man and convince him to take him on as an apprentice.Musashi refuses to agree to his request, leaving Soul with no option but to shadow the samurai and repeatedly challenge him to duel, in the...