Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Map


Part One: THE TOWER

Chapter One: SALT-BLOODED

Chapter Two: RAN’S HUMOR

Chapter Three: THE STERN MAIDEN

Chapter Four: THE HOUSE OF MICHAL PSELLOS

Chapter Five: THE KING OF THIEVES

Chapter Six: WORTHY OF HIS HIRE

Chapter Seven: SCIMITARS AND SEAMSTRESSES

Chapter Eight: NAMING A BLADE

Chapter Nine: THE FEAST OF HARVEST

Chapter Ten: THE HEIR

Chapter Eleven: A KILLING

Chapter Twelve: THE KEY

Chapter Thirteen: A PARTING GIFT


Part Two: THE SEA

Chapter Fourteen: USSA’S MANE

Chapter Fifteen: THE PASSAGE OF THE NARROWS

Chapter Sixteen: THE SHORE PARTY

Chapter Seventeen: THE BIRTHPLACE OF MAN

Chapter Eighteen: THE GORTHOR FLATS

Chapter Nineteen: THE HIDDEN CITY

Chapter Twenty: THE REVENANT

Chapter Twenty-one: MEN OF WAR

Chapter Twenty-two: THE BITERS BIT


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