Chains of Honor: the Prequels (Tales 1-3)

Chains of Honor: the Prequels (Tales 1-3)

Save money by grabbing all three Swords & Salt tales in one collection.

Tale 1: A Question of Honor

With less than six months until his entrance exams for the famed Nurian warrior-mage academy, Yanko is sent to his uncleâ€™s salt mine for â€œhardening,â€ as his father calls it. He expects endless days of physical labor; what he doesnâ€™t expect is to have to choose one of the mineâ€™s prisoners as a sparring partner.

Not wanting his uncle to think him a coward, Yanko picks a big scarred man from Turgonia, a land known for its ruthless warriors. Only after his selection does he learn that heâ€™ll be expected to kill his opponentâ€¦ before his opponent kills him.

A Question of Honor is a 19,000-word novella.

Tale 2: Labyrinths of the Heart

After months of working in his uncleâ€™s mine, Yanko longs to see his family and friends again, especially Arayevo, the woman he has adored from afar since he was a boy. When she travels two days and asks to see him, his mind dances at the possibilities.

But the mines are busy: thereâ€™s a political delegate to humor, a maiden in distress to help, and a wedding that must go perfectlyâ€”or else. Yanko will be lucky if he finds a chance to talk to Arayevo before she disappears from his life forever.

Labyrinths of the Heart is a 21,000-word novella.

Tale 3: Death from Below

A visit from Yankoâ€™s older brother is interrupted when an alarm blasts through the mine. Mutilated workers have been found dead in a newly opened tunnel.

Yanko has been studying to become a mage, and his brother is a soldier, so they believe they are prepared to deal with this unknown threat, but what awaits them in the subterranean depths is nothing the mine has seen in its hundreds of years of operation.

Death from Below is a 13,000-word novella.

Total word count for all three adventures: 53,000 words.
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-12-21
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-12-21
Format	Kindle eBook