Peril’s Gate. Janny Wurts

      

      Janny Wurts

      PERIL’S GATE

      The Wars of Light and Shadow

       VOLUME 6

      THIRD BOOK OF THE ALLIANCE OF LIGHT

       Copyright

      HarperVoyager An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF, UK

      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1999

      Copyright © Janny Wurts 1997

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      Source ISBN: 9780007101085

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      Contents

       Third Book

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Acknowledgements

      Map

       I. Retribution

       II. Recoil

       III. Baiyen Gap

       IV. Prime Successor

       V. Spinner of Darkness

       VI. Clan War Band

       VII. Threshold

       VIII. Evasion

       IX. Caithdein

       X. False Step

       XI. Nightfall

       XII. Rockfell Peak

       XIII. Teir’s’Ffalenn

       XIV. Hunted

       XV. Peril’s Gate

       XVI. Path of the Damned

       XVII. Second Recovery

       Keep Reading

       Glossary

       About the Author

       By the same author

       About the Publisher

       Map

      Winter Solstice Night 5670

       I.

       Retribution

      Arithon s’Ffalenn, called Master of Shadow! For the sake of your crimes against our fair city of Jaelot, your spirit shall be delivered by sword and by fire to your rightful hour of death…

      – Mayor of Jaelot, decree of execution

      Third Age Year 5669

      The storm settled over the Eltair coast just after the advent of nightfall. Like the worst winter gales, it stole in on cat feet. The fitful, fine sleet dusting over sere landscape changed on a breath into muffling snow as the temperature plunged below freezing. The moment caught Arithon s’Ffalenn, last living Prince of Rathain and birth-born Master of Shadow, crouched in the iced brush of a hedgerow.

      Each labored breath burned his lungs like cold fire. His sprint was cut short, though the city of Jaelot’s stone walls lay scarcely a bowshot behind him. A skulking fugitive hard-pressed by enemies who hunted by sword and by spellcraft, he shot a concerned glance sidewards as Fionn Areth folded, gasping, beside