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First published by HarperVoyager 2005
Copyright © Raymond E. Feist 2005
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For Andy and Rich,
long overdue thanks for stepping in and being there at the right time
Epigraph
Fate will bring together those a thousand miles apart; without fate, they will miss each other though they come face to face.
Chinese proverb
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Map
Prologue: Harbinger
Chapter One: Brothers
Chapter Two: Council
Chapter Three: Journey
Chapter Four: Dark Goddess
Chapter Five: Sorcerers Isle
Chapter Six: Apprentices
Chapter Seven: Ralan Bek
Chapter Eight: Homecoming
Chapter Nine: Kesh
Chapter Ten: Threat
Chapter Eleven: Conspiracy
Chapter Twelve: Discovery
Chapter Thirteen: Icons
Chapter Fourteen: Breakthrough
Chapter Fifteen: Deception
Chapter Sixteen: Waiting
Chapter Seventeen: Intelligence
Chapter Eighteen: Plans
Chapter Nineteen: Traps
Chapter Twenty: Varen
Chapter Twenty-One: Anticipation
Chapter Twenty-Two: Confrontation
Epilogue: Redux
Keep Reading
Continue the Adventure...
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also by the Author
About the Publisher
Map
PROLOGUE
Harbinger
THE STORM HAD BROKEN.
Pug danced along the edge of the rocks, his feet finding scant purchase as he made his way among the tide pools. His dark eyes darted about as he peered into each pool under the cliff face, seeking the spiny creatures driven into the shallows by the recently passed storm.
His boyish muscles bunched under his light shirt as he shifted the sack of sandcrawlers, rockclaws, and crabs plucked from this water garden. The afternoon sun sent sparkles through the sea spray swirling around him, as the west wind blew his sun-streaked brown hair about. Pug set his sack down, checked to make sure it was securely tied, then squatted on a clear patch of sand. The sack was not quite full, but Pug relished the extra hour or so that he could relax. Megar the cook wouldnt trouble him about the time as long as the sack was almost full. Resting with his back against a large rock, Pug settled in to relax. He opened his eyes suddenly. He had fallen asleep, or at least he knew he had fallen asleep here once He sat up.
A cool wet spray struck him in the face. Without having closed his eyes, somehow time had passed. Fear rose up within his chest, and he knew he had stayed much too long. Westward, over the sea, dark thunderheads were forming above the black outline of the Six Sisters, the small islands on the horizon. The roiling, surging clouds, with rain trailing below like some sooty veil, heralded another of the sudden storms common to this part of the coast in early summer. The winds drove the clouds with unnatural fury and distant thunder grew louder by the moment.