They call it the City of a Hundred Rows. The ancient city of Thaiburley is a vast, multi-tiered metropolis, where the poor live in the City Below and demons are said to dwell in the Upper Heights.Having witnessed a murder in a part of the city he should never have been in, Tom, a lowly street-nic...
Droplets darted across the pools of illumination cast by the streetlamps in serried ranks like swarms of migrating insects. Night fell early, here in the tropics. Terri Gilkes pulled up her collar, hunched her shoulders, and tried to walk faster without lifting her eyes from the section of sidewa...
The goddess, facing them, was the teacher, and they were there to learn. "How did you first become aware of your talents?" Thaiss asked. Tom hesitated, needing a few seconds to frame his reply. Fortunately Mildra stepped into the breach, evident...
Not bad for someone who'd been convinced they wouldn't manage another wink for the rest of the night. True to his word, Dewar had returned before the sun rose. His mood seemed even blacker than before he'd ridden off and he refused to discuss where he'd been or what had happened. All of which irr...
He stared out of the window at the rain, which had been falling incessantly all morning and showed no sign of relenting any time soon, and wished fervently that he was somewhere else. The weather had been much the same since they landed and he had yet to find anywhere decent to eat in this misera...
Here are the first two chapters.ONEThe Four Spoke Inn failed to be all manner of things. It wasn’t the cheapest place around, nor was it the warmest, the most welcoming, the largest, the busiest, not even the most convenient. Yet it was a little of all of these. The landlord, Seth Bryant, was wel...