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Sinner
Sara Douglass
The first book of the Wayfarerer Redemption, an enthralling continuation of The Axis trilogy, by the bestselling Australian author Sara DouglassForty years have passed, Axis and Azhure have taken their rightful places among the other Star Gods.Their cherished first-born, Caelum Starson, now rules and all appears peaceful. But the Throne of the Stars brings frightful responsibilities, and sometimes Caelum listens to the wrong advice. Old resentments between Acharite and Icari threaten to overwhelm Caelum’s tentative control, and civil war looms on the horizon.As there are tensions in the land and among the peoples of Tencendor, so are there tensions among the SunSoar family itself. Drago, denied his Icari heritage as punishment for a treacherous infancy is constantly reminded that while his brothers and sisters revel in power and youth, he ages under the restrictions of his human blood. Riverstar is now a vain and spiteful young woman, and Zenith, his youngest sister, is experiencing memories that are destroying her peace of mind.But a far more menacing threat to the peace of Tencendor lingers beyond the Star Gate. The children that Wolfstar hurled to their deaths hundreds of years ago want their revenge, their whispering is becoming louder and they are not alone.
SARA DOUGLASS
Sinner
Book One of The Wayfarer Redemption
Contents
Cover (#uc5fcf8da-d953-5802-90dd-c85ce0967214)
Title Page (#u72c9fdd2-7527-5fbe-b7ce-dfa0b7862f56)
Fire-Night (#ub69492b3-097f-515c-b85e-cb94f1bf8a17)
Prologue (#u2bd95571-d33c-5c7c-87c4-f4ac77dd23b7)
1 West and North (#ub1d94dd3-efe2-57c8-b4b6-56fda7bd414c)
2 Master Goldman’s Soiree (#uf4ceb093-0727-5762-8e07-203d48ed4a40)
3 StarSon Caelum (#udfc3c48b-da8e-5445-9112-6a845eebad9f)
4 Beggars on the Floor, Travellers O’er the Bridge (#ubdc51bef-8272-5da2-a8f4-c66cc96a480a)
5 Speaking Treason (#u6dfe91cc-20c2-5cca-a24b-8d79d45cd32f)
6 The SunSoars at Home (#u7def87ef-99fc-5fc6-9208-dc4b3a84aef7)
7 Disturbing Arrivals (#ufaf8005f-dc49-5177-8344-bb6519b368d1)
8 Maze Gate (#udf3a9e90-7777-5232-85c5-90358b7754eb)
9 WolfStar’s Explanation (#u7ad2f6a9-226c-526c-b54c-458eb0557c53)
10 Pastry Magics (#u697a8a24-80ea-5140-a927-4f29ea7b3544)
11 Niah’s Legacy (#uc1c1af06-5fea-50bd-9745-53fb24a91b9a)
12 Council of the Five Families (#uf14bd776-7fa7-515a-911c-4ccfc9e8c0b7)
13 The Throne of Achar (#uee43bf97-43f3-56d4-9a23-77cf9945bb2f)
14 A Moot Point (#litres_trial_promo)
15 Murder! (#litres_trial_promo)
16 SunSoar Justice (#litres_trial_promo)
17 The Lake Guard on Duty (#litres_trial_promo)
18 Hunting Drago (#litres_trial_promo)
19 The Fugitive (#litres_trial_promo)
20 Icebear Coast Camp (#litres_trial_promo)
21 Travelling Home (#litres_trial_promo)
22 Impatient Love (#litres_trial_promo)
23 Minstrelsea (#litres_trial_promo)
24 StarDrifter (#litres_trial_promo)
25 DragonStar (#litres_trial_promo)
26 The Sack (1) (#litres_trial_promo)
27 Niah Triumphant (#litres_trial_promo)
28 River Crossing (#litres_trial_promo)
29 The Ancient Barrows (#litres_trial_promo)
30 The Rainbow Sceptre (#litres_trial_promo)
31 New Existences (#litres_trial_promo)
32 The Questors (#litres_trial_promo)
33 StarLaughter (#litres_trial_promo)
34 Of What Is Lost (#litres_trial_promo)
35 SpikeFeather’s Search (#litres_trial_promo)
36 Kastaleon (#litres_trial_promo)
37 The Leap (#litres_trial_promo)
38 Zenith Lost (#litres_trial_promo)
39 The Maze (#litres_trial_promo)
40 The Maze Gate’s Message (#litres_trial_promo)
41 A Town Gained, a Sceptre Lost (#litres_trial_promo)
42 ForestFlight’s Betrayal (#litres_trial_promo)
43 Faraday’s Lie (#litres_trial_promo)
44 … And Sixty-Nine Fat Pigs (#litres_trial_promo)
45 The Enemy (#litres_trial_promo)
46 The TimeKeepers (#litres_trial_promo)
47 Niah’s Grove (#litres_trial_promo)
48 Carlon’s Welcome (#litres_trial_promo)
49 Caelum Amid the Ruins (#litres_trial_promo)
50 The Shadow-Lands (#litres_trial_promo)
51 The King of Achar (#litres_trial_promo)
52 Voices in the Night (#litres_trial_promo)
53 An Army for the Asking (#litres_trial_promo)
54 Journeying through the Night (#litres_trial_promo)
55 The Blighted Beacon (#litres_trial_promo)
56 Discussing Salvation (#litres_trial_promo)
57 While WolfStar Lay Sleeping (#litres_trial_promo)
58 As Clear as a Temple Bell (#litres_trial_promo)
59 Zenith (#litres_trial_promo)
60 Old Friends (#litres_trial_promo)
61 An Army of Norsmen (#litres_trial_promo)
62 The Warding of the Star Gate (#litres_trial_promo)
63 Leagh’s Loyalties Divided (#litres_trial_promo)
64 A Dagger from Behind (#litres_trial_promo)
65 A Brother to Die For (#litres_trial_promo)
66 In Caelum’s Camp (#litres_trial_promo)
67 Caelum’s Judgment (#litres_trial_promo)
68 Towards the Star Gate (#litres_trial_promo)
69 The Fading of the Dance (#litres_trial_promo)
70 Leap to the Edge (#litres_trial_promo)
71 The Sack (2) (#litres_trial_promo)
Epilogue: The Wasteland (#litres_trial_promo)
Glossary (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
By Sara Douglass (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree
Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us,
If lecherous goats, if serpents envious
Cannot be damned, alas, why should I be?
Why should intent or reason, born in me,
Make sins, else equal, in me more heinous?
John Donne, Holy Sonnet no. V
Fire-Night (#ulink_8e391bf2-391f-539d-b328-bf12c1d1308f)
The four craft crashed through the barriers between the outer universe and the planet, exploding in raging flames, creating the portal that later races would call the Star Gate.
The creatures inside fought for control of the craft, fought even knowing it was a lost cause – the craft had ceased to listen to them hundreds of years previously. But even when death was only moments away, their hands clung to navigation mechanisms, hoping to somehow save their cargo … and maybe even save the world to which they plummeted from their cargo.
It was useless. Most of them were drifting ashes by the time their flaming craft smashed deep into the surface of the planet.
Most of them. One, like the four craft, survived.
Within days the craft had shifted comfortably into the pits created by their violent arrival, accepting the waters that closed over their surface. For three thousand years they dreamed. Then they woke and began to grow, spreading their tentacles deep beneath the land, reaching out, each to the other. Their metalled surfaces andwalkways and panels and compartments hummed with the music they had learned in the millennia they’d travelled the universe. But this music the craft kept to themselves, not letting it mix with the sound of the Star Dance that filtered through the Star Gate.
