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The Bone Doll’s Twin
Lynn Flewelling
The first volume of a thrilling fantasy adventure trilogy filled with necromancy and bone-chilling magic from the bestselling US author of the Nightrunner series.Long ago, during the dark days of the Great War with Pleinmar, King Thelatimos journeyed to the Oracle of the God Illior at Afra to save his warn-torn kingdom. Here he was presented with a prophecy ‘So long as a daughter of Thelatimos’s line defends and rules, Skala shall never be subjugated.’ And that is how the line of queens ruling over Skala was established…However, as generations went by the male heirs to the throne became intensely resentful of the prophecy that emasculated their claim to power. Finally Queen Agnalain took the throne and the people of Skala suffered under her erratic and selfish command. Prompted by the people’s outcry over this mad queen, her son Prince Erius claimed primogeniture, and seized the throne.Erius’s ascent may have pleased the people of Skala, but a faction of the population, one who had not forgotten the prophecy, were worried. Plague, drought and famine spread throughout the kingdom weakening it’s defences and offering easy pickings to Skala’s old enemy and neighbour, Plenimar.As people start to recall the Oracle’s prophecy, Erius begins to quietly kill of his female relatives who pose the only threat to his monarchy. Constantly in fear for her life, Princess Ariani the King’s sister, gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. But Ariani is married to Lord Rhius, the patron of the powerful wizard Iya, and Iya has sinister plans for the babes…
THE BONE DOLL’S TWIN
Book One of the Tamír Triad
Lynn Flewelling
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First published in Great Britain by Voyager 2001
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CONTENTS
Cover (#u7e69832d-514a-5f5c-ba56-7e70bdb595ed)
Title Page (#u0aa1c2ea-7e73-5e27-af10-4094ba1b1ee2)
Copyright (#u007cdcb8-1652-5942-8d86-93cab658b9da)
Dedication (#u91ab2458-4762-5ba5-be2a-7dfe442c37a2)
The Skalan Year (#u7b704cde-1036-5736-af59-bd7076f0ddcf)
Maps (#u438bc9d7-0f17-50ba-90ab-9abb6f277b7c)
Part One (#ue2ffa51d-0f40-5533-8035-6b67e787f33c)
Chapter One (#u64f053bd-2abe-56f9-905a-e1cc26714cf3)
Chapter Two (#uae52e459-debe-5ab3-b4d0-42ff9e1798c7)
Chapter Three (#u9018dec0-da13-56cf-92f2-030e5c97a430)
Chapter Four (#u59deac1f-b745-5ebe-b26b-f4aff734146f)
Chapter Five (#u6a254cb5-1c4b-5178-9eee-fe2b03292adf)
Part Two (#uad57e1e4-fa41-5ab8-b9db-0ef989399864)
Chapter Six (#ua0e613ae-e623-5fcc-b419-fcd36f8040d6)
Chapter Seven (#uad66f7e3-54a4-51e1-9fe3-0e6dc76adac1)
Chapter Eight (#u2e78cba2-3d48-517d-85e1-c640363df84c)
Chapter Nine (#uc328ee45-5b81-5132-9393-145e235a9c36)
Chapter Ten (#u31fd28ad-cff7-5554-a408-e4bfa9dec3ce)
Chapter Eleven (#u2c36c907-0719-5c6a-875e-661f471e39a8)
Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-Three (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-Four (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-Five (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-Six (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-Seven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-Eight (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-Nine (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty-One (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty-Three (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty-Four (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty-Five (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty-Six (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty-Seven (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Three (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty-Eight (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty-Nine (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Forty (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Forty-One (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Forty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Forty-Three (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Forty-Four (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Forty-Five (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Forty-Six (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Forty-Seven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Forty-Eight (#litres_trial_promo)
Keep Reading (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
THE SKALAN YEAR (#ulink_edc759b5-0e48-57e9-9949-67fc6e2fb34f)
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I. Winter Solstice – Mourning Night and Festival of Sakor; observance of the longest night and celebration of the lengthening of days to come.
1. Sarisin Calving.
2. Dostin Hedges and ditches seen to. Peas and beans sown for cattle food.
3. Klesin Sowing of oats, wheat, barley (for malting), rye. Beginning of fishing season. Open water sailing resumes.
II. Vernal Equinox – Festival of the Flowers in Mycena. Preparation for planting, celebration of fertility.
4. Lithion Butter and cheese making (sheep’s milk pref.) Hemp and flax sown.
5. Nythin Fallow ground ploughed.
6. Gorathin Corn weeded. Sheep washed and sheared.
III. Summer Solstice
7. Shemin Beginning of the month – hay mowing. End of the month and into Lenthin – grain harvest in full swing.
8. Lenthin Grain harvest.
9. Rhythin Harvest brought in. Fields plowed and planted with winter wheat or rye.
IV. Harvest Home – finish of harvest, time of thankfulness.
10. Erasin Pigs turned out into the woods to forage for acorns and beechnuts.
11. Kemmin More plowing for spring. Oxen and other meat animals slaughtered and cured. End of the fishing season. Storms make open water sailing dangerous.
12. Cinrin Indoor work, including threshing.
(#ulink_58f548e5-5e35-5d72-9375-4ca359195f13) A 360-day year with four 3-day seasonal festivals.
MAPS (#ulink_3f0434d4-b483-574f-82c6-d3e39dc7a842)
PART ONE (#ulink_987cb486-89cd-5b56-b0ae-94891d49472e)
