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    Kings
    Kings
    Kings
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    Kings

    By Kim Iverson Headlee and Patricia Duffy Novak

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    From the award-winning pens of Kim Iverson Headlee and short-fiction veteran Patricia Duffy Novak comes this darkly humorous mage-out-of-water tale:

    A funny thing happened on the way to the battlefield.

    Arthur, High King of Brydein, must fight the last of the rebel kings to acknowledge his right to govern them all: his old nemesis, King Urien of Dalriada. Before he can lead his army to where Urien's forces sit ensconced, however, a fey man appears from the midst of a sudden, eerie storm to block the way. The man claims to be the high king of an altogether unknown land… and he wields uncanny power the likes of which Arthur has never seen.

    Garrin, High King of Helvar, steps into a patch of mist. A breath later, he's standing toe to toe with a man claiming to be the high king of an altogether unknown land… and this warrior-king is leading an army into Helvar, wielding a sword that resists Garrin's magic. Only, the man insists that his sword isn't enchanted and that Garrin isn't in Helvar anymore.

    What the bloody hell—or five hells, in Garrin's case—is a high king to do?

    Their encounter reeks of an enemy mage's dark arts, and no one is laughing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPendragon Cove Press
    Release dateJun 15, 2016
    ISBN9780997120240
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    Kim Iverson Headlee

    Kim Headlee lives on a farm in the mountains of southwestern Virginia with her family, cats, fish, goats & assorted wildlife. People and creatures come & go, but the cave and the 250-year-old house ruins-the latter having been occupied as recently as the mid-20th century-seem to be sticking around for a while yet.Other published works by Kim Headlee:Dawnflight, first edition, paperback, Sonnet Books, Simon & Schuster, 1999.Liberty, writing as Kimberly Iverson, paperback, HQN Books, Harlequin, 2006.

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      Kings - Kim Iverson Headlee

      Also by Kim Iverson Headlee

      Arthur Garrin

      The Dragon’s Dove Chronicles

      Dawnflight

      The Color of Vengeance

      Morning’s Journey

      Raging Sea

      The Challenge

      The Challenge Comic Book

      Twins

      Stand-alone Fiction

      King Arthur’s Sister in Washington’s Court

      Liberty

      Snow in July

      Nonfiction

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      Pendragon Cove Press

      Kings

      by Kim Iverson Headlee

      and Patricia Duffy Novak

      Copyright ©2016 by Kim Iverson Headlee

      and Patricia Duffy Novak

      All rights reserved

      Interior Art:

      Garrin’s symbol is from Sea waves set

      ©2016 by Chantalnathalie, Dreamstime ID 32803662

      All other interior art is ©2012 by Kim Headlee

      Pendragon Cove Press logos copyright ©2014 by Natasha Brown

      Cover design ©2016 by Natasha Brown

      Credit for cover photographs:

      Portrait of Viking warrior holding a sword

      ©2015 by mikkelwilliam, iStockphoto ID 000055461592

      Medieval warrior with sword sitting in old church

      ©2015 by likstudio, Depositphotos ID 78689692

      3D illustration of a medieval sword in fire

      ©2010 by mdorottya, Depositphotos ID 24115665

      Young crusader

      ©2011 by ivga, Depositphotos ID 6642274

      Golden crown

      ©2013 by bazil, Depositphotos ID 39858015

      Silver bracelet

      ©2011 by unkas, Depositphotos ID 6165361

      Published by Pendragon Cove Press

      ISBN-10: 0-9971202-4-X

      ISBN-13: 978-0-9971202-4-0

      Audiobook performed by Dave Cruse

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this story or portions thereof in any form, with the exception of brief excerpts for the purpose of review.

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      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be resold. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use, then please purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Chapter 1

      AN INCONVENIENT ENCOUNTER

      ON THE WAY TO WAR

      Arthur

      TWO THOUSAND HOOVES could kick up a hell of a lot of dust.

      Arthur map Uther was accustomed to leading that distant cloud astride his war-horse, not watching it billow and spread like a pale gray-brown blight across the rolling horizon. He was even more unaccustomed to worrying about what would happen when his cavalry collided with the foe it had been dispatched to evaluate while he marched in relative safety back with the bulk of the legion. Now that he was High King of Brydein, proclaimed thus by this very army in the wake of the victory he’d engineered at Caer Alclyd over the allied Saxon and Scotti force last year, his personal safety had become everyone’s concern.

      Most of the Brytoni kings had acquiesced to the legion’s wishes. They viewed the high kingship as a civil extension of the military authority they had granted Arthur as Pendragon—Chief Dragon, commander of the Dragon Legion of Brydein—more than a decade ago. The remaining kings had formed an alliance in protest of Arthur’s rule, though those men coveted the high throne and therefore refused to support one another when Arthur and his troops came to call. Their confrontations had ended with little loss to either side, except for the cost in feeding and sheltering the legion for however many days Arthur had deemed an appropriate penalty—nothing exorbitant; he had no wish to fuel resentment, only to make his point.

      The last holdout to swear allegiance was his brother-by-marriage, King Urien map Dumarec of Dalriada, the most dangerous rebel of the lot. In spite of being married to Arthur’s sister, Morghe, Urien had

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