The Blasted Lands - sample chapters

your father. He did not add the last, but he certainly considered it. He was human after all and currently not enthusiastic about assisting the man who’d tried to have him murdered.

She won the argument not with words but with actions.

Instead of throwing accusations at him or pleading for his interference, she looked down and her lower lip trembled.

Merros started to look away because he knew what would happen next.

Wollis always said women were his weakness and the man was not wrong.

Princess Lanaie looked back up at him and tears fell from her large, dark eyes. She looked so damnably lost and afraid and he had always been raised to believe that a woman in distress needed to be a gentleman’s first priority.

“Damn me. Fine. I’ll arrange for you to see the Regent. Just, please, stop that crying.”

That didn’t work as well as he’d hoped. She just cried more.

Not ten feet away Laister Krous was looking on with a scowl on his wide face. Either he had not been raised as a gentleman or he felt left out. Either way, Merros didn’t much like him.

He kept that opinion to himself. A wise man knows when to keep his mouth shut.