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Life in the Order of the Widowed Dragon has never been easy. For
countless centuries, a lone Steward has protected and served the
people of Aachen, living amongst and yet apart from them, never
knowing kinship, gratitude or love. Martin had accepted this long
before he took up the mantle himself. However, his late mentor
failed to warn him that preserving the Pact between Aachen and the
Dragon would break his heart. For it was his duty, every handful of
years, to escort the Bride of Winter Roses up to the Tree of Souls,
to be devoured before his eyes. Duty warred with his growing sense
of injustice, but the conflict had become more personal for him;
the last woman he took to be wed to the Dragon had quietly stolen
his heart, and he has lived with remorse these past five years. And
now, as if the Maker were mocking him, he finds himself falling
once more, for Cassandra, the newly chosen Bride. With only the aid
of Cassandra and her companion Leanne, the younger sibling of his
ghostly love, Maria, and Bishop Vavers, a man whose faith in a
loving creator is flagging, Martin has less than three days to end
the Dragon's reign, unaware that the stakes are higher than mere
star-crossed love or the fate of a forsaken mountain village. For
the first time in over a millennium, the magic sustaining the
Dragon and the Pact is in flux, as the cycle of sacrifice has come
around to completion once more. If Martin can learn the Dragon's
weakness, Aachen can be spared another millennium of bloody
tyranny. However, forces eldritch and political are moving to
abolish the Pact prematurely, which could unleash a greater evil
upon an unsuspecting world.
A private dick gets shot up to keep him from giving away trade
secrets. A child remembers the monster he called friend. A secret
agent discovers he is being watched while waiting for the man he is
assigned to kill. A rich Sultan has second thoughts about a magic
transaction he has hired a Djinn to process for him. A thief tries
to steal a magic orb and gets more than he bargained for. A brother
and sister get lost in the woods on a winter's night. Another
private eye tries to rescue his client, and discovers they're up
against the most dangerous creatures around: angels. A man reflects
on the loss of his best friend. A woman goes to her night job and
accidentally stumbles upon an ugly secret about the world she lives
in when a stranger gives her a special stone. Yet another private
detective's Girl Friday makes Christmas Dinner for two and then
tries to help him solve a case. A game developer finds his true
medium when he starts writing an interactive novel about a singing
detective. A member of the Sisterhood of Brianna sets out to
prevent a Darkling from corrupting a nobleman's innocent daughter.
Another secret agent tries to find and rescue his young protege,
who has been captured by a secret worldwide criminal organisation.
The Sultan discovers the price for trying to scotch the deal with
the Djinn is much higher than he ever imagined These are just a
small handful of the story ideas from the mind of Lee Edward
McIlmoyle, author of the novels The Bride of War and Terminal
Monday, and the novellas The Dark Guild (LinkTales Volume One) and
ASHES: Infinite Redress. This is just the beginning. Once you're on
the Road to Limbo, you can never go home again.
It's the fall of 2007, and Richard Burley is riding a losing
streak. Not only is his marriage on rocky ground, but his writing
career has devolved from co-writing one best seller thirteen years
ago to writing freelance ad copy for brochures and radio
commercials. And he has a dark secret; an under-the-table script
doctoring gig he's doing for some movie producers whose head writer
is out on the picket line. The only thing keeping Richard sane is
his rock opera, and even that might not be as healthy an outlet as
he needs it to be, as it tells the story of a cartoonist who loses
everything including his mind. Then one day, Richard runs into an
ex-girlfriend who reminds him that he used to be an ambitious
novellist, and introduces him to a group of fellow aspiring
authors, which reawakens his desire to write fiction. However, his
wife Kara becomes angry at him for associating with the woman who
left him for the man who stole the rights to the book series he
spawned, and, accusing him of infidelity, sends him packing. From
there, Richard drifts from sofa to sofa and into the arms of one
woman after another, trying desperately to reinvent himself and
preserve the dwindling remains of his own self-respect, all the
while fearing he is being haunted by the ghost of his not-dead,
not-yet-ex-wife. He begins having real-life encounters with the
characters of his various writing projects, even as the
relationships with his friends are eroding. And his fear that the
scab movie script project will be discovered finally comes true
when he receives an email from an unhappy Edwin McKay, the author
and head writer of the movie. Can Richard save his marriage, revive
his writing career, avoid being blacklisted, stage his rock opera
and keep his sanity, or will he lose everyone he loves and
everything he has worked so hard to build for himself? And if he
loses, will he be in any condition to tell the difference?
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