![]() Lee was just happy to be home, back in those green, blunted hills tailor-made for a dreamer. Lee didn’t really remember him, but they always burned a beeswax candle for him on the holidays. His brother Jamie had been taken when Lee was just a baby, while they still lived in Pennsylvania. They hunted the descendants of the Silver Bear, harvesting the gifted for the Trade. The Roses had followed the lineages west from the port cities in the east. Knew what these raiders were looking for, and why. Only seven years before, Confederate General John Morgan had led his raiders through these southern Ohio hills. Bandits, their neighbors called them, and speculated that they’d been soldiers in the recent War of the Rebellion. They would sweep through the village on the river, search the outlying farms, and then disappear, sometimes for as long as a year. The Roses’ previous attacks had been hit-or-miss affairs. ![]() Lee knew that, afterward, but his father was a farmer, and a farmer can’t afford to stay out of the fields too long during the growing season. They had been back only a fortnight after a month on the run. ![]() Not lazy, exactly, but largely inefficient. His parents complained that it took him two days to do a day’s worth of work. He was the youngest, a little spoiled, the only one of four children to display the telltale signs of a wizard’s stone. In those days, Lee was slight of build, though his father always said his big hands and feet predicted height and broad shoulders when he was grown. The Roses came for them during his tenth summer. The scent of wood smoke and roses always took him back there, to the boy he was and would never be again. Prologue Old Stories «^» Coalton County, Ohio June, 1870 ![]() Longbranch Chapter Thirteen Cumbria Chapter Fourteen When Lovers Meet Chapter Fifteen Raven’s Ghyll Chapter Sixteen A Summons to Court Chapter Seventeen The Game Chapter Eighteen TrinityĪcknowledgments ^» Heartfelt thanks to my agent, Michelle Wolfson, who made all the difference to my editors, Arianne Lewin and Donna Bray, who believed to Hudson Writers (Deb Abood, Pam Daum, Cathy Fahey-Hunt, Anne Gallagher, Ellen Matthews, Marsha McGregor, James Robinson, and Jane Sahr), who gave the gift that every writer needs: thoughtful and loving critique most of all, thanks to Rod, Eric, and Keith, who understood.įor my mother, Carol Bryan Williams, who told stories Table of Contents Acknowledgments Prologue Old Stories Chapter One The Flying Lobeck Chapter Two The Road Trip Chapter Three Digging Up Dead Relatives Chapter Four Shadowslayer Chapter Five The Warrior Heir Chapter Six Dangerous Games Chapter Seven Beginner Warrioring Chapter Eight The Apprentice Chapter Nine The Bout Chapter Ten The Street Fight Chapter Eleven Under Siege Chapter Twelve A Visit with Dr. The Warrior Heir Book 1 of the Heir Series ![]()
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