Graynelore. Stephen Moore

      Graynelore

      STEPHEN MOORE

      HarperVoyager

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2015

      Copyright © Stephen Moore 2015

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      Stephen Moore asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

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      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Ebook Edition © August 2015 ISBN: 978-0-00-810353-8

      Version: 2016-10-31

      For Carol

      ‘Whenever you think I’m lost, and you cannot find me, look here. I am always here.’

       Epigraph

      If every man’s life has the makings of a story, the comings and the goings and the things in-between, where does my story truly begin?

      For want of a narrator, for want of a name and the soul it belongs to, I fear, it must begin here…

      [From: A Beggar Bard’s Tale. Anon.]

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Prologue

       Part One: The Beggar Bard’s Tale

       Chapter One: Graynelore

       Chapter Two: How the World was Made

       Chapter Three: The Beggar Bard’s Burden

       Part Two: The Bereaved

       Chapter Four: At the Mark of the Wishards

       Chapter Five: The Elfwych Riding

       Chapter Six: The Killing Field

       Chapter Seven: The Unspoken Voice

       Chapter Eight: The Broken Tower

      

       Chapter Nine: Aftermath

      

       Chapter Ten: Against the Grayne

      

       Part Three: The Wycken Mire

      

       Chapter Eleven: Into the Mire

      

       Chapter Twelve: Wycken-on-the-Mire

      

       Chapter Thirteen: Faeries

      

       Chapter Fourteen: Joining the Dance

      

       Chapter Fifteen: The Secret Meet

      

       Part Four: The Faerie Riding

      

       Chapter Sixteen: The Changelings

      

       Chapter Seventeen: A Brief and Intimate Respite

      

       Chapter Eighteen: Upon the Threshold and a Dream

      

       Chapter Nineteen: The Gateway