Servant of the Dragon

Chapter One
 
 
Prince Garric of Haft, Heir Presumptive of Valence III, King of the Isles—and already by any real measure the ruler of the kingdom—faced his Council of Advisors. Down the table from him were the chief nobles of the island of Ornifal, some of the most powerful men in all the Isles. They were waiting for him to make known his wishes as Lord Waldron, commander of the Royal Army, argued with Lord Attaper, commander of the Blood Eagles—the royal bodyguards.
Garric’s wishes were to be back home in Barca’s Hamlet, the village on Haft where he’d been raised for all but the first days of his eighteen years. Life was a lot simpler then, although it had seemed complicated enough at the time.
“You can’t go back, lad,” whispered the ghost in Garric’s mind: Carus, the last king of the united Isles, whom wizardly had drowned a thousand years before. “Even i ... read full excerpt from Servant of the Dragon ebook