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    A Demon in the Knight
    A Demon in the Knight
    A Demon in the Knight
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    A Demon in the Knight

    By Robert Taylor

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    First of a 4 part series: Secret of the Demon.
    The young Duke TecDemon rises to his father's throne after his death. He yearns to be free of the burdens of being a leader and to set off and see the world. His craving for adventure is soon met when his kingdom is destroyed by vicious beasts and his beloved is missing! His only hope is in discovering a secret power linked to his family's past.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Taylor
    Release dateJan 12, 2011
    ISBN9781458065940
    A Demon in the Knight
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    Robert Taylor

    Robert Taylor was formerly Director of the Centre for Chinese Studies and Reader in Modern Chinese Studies at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of a number of studies and academic articles relating to Chinese business management and China’s foreign policy, including Greater China and Japan and the edited volume, International Business in China: Understanding the Global Economic Crisis. He also contributed a chapter on China to the volume, edited by H.Hasegawa and C.Noronha, Asian Business and Management: Theory, Practice and Perspectives.

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      A Demon in the Knight - Robert Taylor

      A Demon in the Knight

      Robert Taylor

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      Copyright 2011 Robert Taylor

      Original Cover Image: http://projects.ericshalov.com/freeimages/742/Coucy; originally from 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 5, Page 478

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      CHAPTER ONE

      He sat looking out of the stone-framed arch window of the palace throne room. TecDemon. Duke of Teclessa, the western country on the island of Norttl. He had been raised on the tales of how these lands were forged from bitter waste to prosperous country by his ancestors from his father. The young TecDemon modeled his life out of these fables until the day he became ruler. His aspiration to travel the world and conquer its adventures crumbled into his reality of the lifelong responsibility he would face. Over time, he took all that he had for granted: his lands, peoples, riches, even much of his own person. His sense of royal duty challenged every day by his inherited love of adventure. It was always pulling him in a way he did not understand, a way that he almost feared.

      It was a cold day. It was a dreary day. Foggy. Bitter. Humid. Rainy. It was his kind of day. Since his first memories he could recall the overcast grey skies, the chill breezes, the mist and fog, and his love for them. Not one single person in his realm was as physically able to endure in this weather as

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