Graynelore

Graynelore
Stephen Moore

Rogrig Wishard is a killer, a liar and a thief.Rogrig is the last person the fey would turn to for help. But they know something he doesn’t.In a world without government or law, where a man’s loyalty is to his family and faerie tales are strictly for children, Rogrig is not happy to discover that he’s carrying faerie blood. Especially when he starts to see them wherever he goes.To get his life back, he’s going to have to journey further from home than he’s ever been before and find out what the fey could possibly want from him. But that’s easier said than done when the punishment for abandoning your family is death.

Graynelore

STEPHEN MOORE

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First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2015

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Version: 2016-10-31

For Carol

‘Whenever you think I’m lost, and you cannot find me, look here. I am always here.’

Epigraph (#u983b8df8-1683-5bb8-b6ad-b6bf17865eaa)

If every man’s life has the makings of a story, the comings and the goings and the things in-between, where does my story truly begin?

For want of a narrator, for want of a name and the soul it belongs to, I fear, it must begin here…

[From: A Beggar Bard’s Tale. Anon.]

Contents

Cover (#u9af68964-39e6-5231-8824-5d794dc7af83)

Title Page (#uca7a9e7f-1fa9-5acf-864f-a81bc16f8225)

Copyright (#ua3633a06-920f-597b-99e4-0964a910770d)

Dedication (#u7b90933d-8192-5f06-a756-de0dcb9e8df8)

Epigraph (#u1df2a6c1-2b13-5b32-ab2d-fe5d2b449d22)

Prologue (#uca1da0ed-0162-5625-8083-6c057d025a2a)

Part One: The Beggar Bard’s Tale (#ub98af344-832c-53e8-8325-98150a6c5eb2)

Chapter One: Graynelore (#udccdb840-deae-5f93-8d10-4849b9de6448)

Chapter Two: How the World was Made (#u3064686b-88c1-589b-85f4-1ca031f0089d)

Chapter Three: The Beggar Bard’s Burden (#u3bac71f9-caec-5149-b446-7a18898605c8)

Part Two: The Bereaved (#ue6432940-8f24-5885-abf8-2de0ca4e0d32)

Chapter Four: At the Mark of the Wishards (#u9cb9b0d6-b686-5aaf-b0a7-7a01adaf5fad)

Chapter Five: The Elfwych Riding (#ufcc171a8-2927-5525-a52c-e423d0a15c0c)

Chapter Six: The Killing Field (#u074ca34e-25df-5c49-ab3f-2dbb465b8fa4)

Chapter Seven: The Unspoken Voice (#u14bd26e5-0b88-567b-85fb-8deb9553af8a)

Chapter Eight: The Broken Tower (#u55211633-ccb7-5162-a252-18616fd6d1e1)

Chapter Nine: Aftermath (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten: Against the Grayne (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Three: The Wycken Mire (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven: Into the Mire (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve: Wycken-on-the-Mire (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen: Faeries (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen: Joining the Dance (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen: The Secret Meet (#litres_trial_promo)