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Authors: Kevin Harkness

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“Enough!” Branet said. “Stop teasing the girl. Garet will travel with you. You all go as trade emissaries, so you cannot wear your uniforms, I fear.”

Trax winked at Garet. “It’s a shame to let you go, since you were finally becoming useful, but I feared Salick’s wrath if I refused.”

Salick faced him and said, “You need not, Your Majesty. Your recent actions have . . . lessened my wrath.”

Trax smiled. “Well, that is more amazing than demon armies and arrow machines! Friends, I must return to the Palace to prepare for the ceremonies at the Temple. Garet, would you go with me please? There is much yet to say.”

Salick stepped up and put a hand on Garet’s shoulder. “I fear that I must steal him from you for the day, Your Majesty. We also have much to say before we go to the Temple.”

Trax dismissed them with a wave of his fingers, and they left the room together, hand in hand.


 

 

About the Author

 

 

 

Kevin Harkness is a Vancouver writer who has just finished a third career as a high-school teacher. His first two careers: industrial 911 operator and late-blooming university student, were nowhere near as dangerous and exciting as teaching Grade 10s the mysteries of grammar and the joys of To Kill a Mockingbird. He also taught Mandarin Chinese— but that’s another story. Outside of family and friends, he has three passions: a guitar he can’t really play, martial arts of any kind from karate to fencing, and reading really good stories.

 

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Dedication

 

For my family, for my friends, and for all those who read when they should be asleep.

 

 

 

Acknowledgement

 

A deep and echoing 'thank you' to Wendy Phillips and Margaret Curelas for making this book better

 

 

 

 

Other Tyche Titles:

 

 

City of Demons by Kevin Harkness

Garet’s life is forever changed when his family is attacked by a demon. Can he fight the fear, or will be become the Demon’s prey?

 

 

 

Marick and the Rat Demon by Kevin Harkness

A night’s adventure goes wrong when a young thief encounters a Demon, a sickle-clawed monster that preys on humans.

 

 

 

 

Heritage by David L. Craddock

Banished from his home, Prince Aidan must uncover the dark forces manipulating the lands of Crotaria.

 

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Demon and Mask

Chapter 2 The Duties of a Green

Chapter 3 The Heights and the Depths

Chapter 4 Beneath the Plaza

Chapter 5 The Other Demon

Chapter 6 Rumour and Research

Chapter 7 Masks and Their Master

Chapter 8 Deadly Reunion

Chapter 9 Caught between the Hallmaster and the Historian

Chapter 10 Secret Meetings

Chapter 11 Secrets Shared

Chapter 12 What Shall be Done?

Chapter 13 Marick’s Adventure

Chapter 14 The Masks Revealed

Chapter 15 Twists, Turns, and Talk

Chapter 16 Talk at the Point of a Spear

Chapter 17 Dealing with Power

Chapter 18 A Falling Out

Chapter 19 The Beast at the Gate

Chapter 20 The Enemies of Sleep

Chapter 21 Change

Chapter 22 Partings and a New Purpose

Chapter 23 Going to the Temple

Chapter 24 Agents

Chapter 25 The Shouting Room

Chapter 26 A Fight with Fear

Chapter 27 The Masks Removed

Chapter 28 Between Claws and Rushing Water

Chapter 29 The Divided Board

Chapter 30 A Bitter Wind

Chapter 31 The Exile Returns

Chapter 32 Allies

Chapter 33 The Clawed Wall

Chapter 34 The Bloody Bridge

Chapter 35 A New Day

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