The middle two volumes were focused purely on the desert, but this volume opens in Outremer, showing something of what happened to the people who were left behind. Magister Fulke is still intent on war against Surayon, and when he marches out, Sieur Anton marches with him -- still hoping to find ...
When Benedict left home, it was maybe the first time he'd stood up to his family. It was also meant to be the last. No contact, he said, I'm disinvesting.In all honesty, they weren't sorry to see him go. Ben had never had their talent, never had the family spark. When you run a city - especially ...
Jonathan wakes up in hospital and is told he has been involved in a car crash. He doesn't remember the last three months, and the doctors say he's only been there three days. He also doesn't remember the woman by his bedside who says she is his wife, but she has the pictures that seem to prove it.
Ben's back - and this time, he means business. Family business...Benedict Macallan, wonder-worker malgré lui, has travelled the length and breadth of Europe and still discovered no family like his own. Maybe Macallan blood really is a biological sport, a freak of evolution.What Ben does discover ...
Ruth went in search of breakfast and her daily task, feeling obscurely as though everyone at Morwood could be measured for their degrees of ruthlessness and found excessive. She herself was ruthless at need, professionally ruthless; it had been a school-years’ joke that carried through her traini...
Nothing in, nothing out is his own chosen position, nil by mouth. He does understand how that wouldn’t work for me, and he tolerates my eating – which is big of him, I think, I’ve always thought – but he still hates it when I medicate. I guess he’s floating in the stuff himself, he reckons that’s...
Of course there was nothing there. That was the point. She would pull that vivid cloth aside and there would be a terrible absence waiting for her, the emptiness where her baby grew. It used to lurk inside her, like a hollow in her heart. Now it was here, expressing itself. Taking itself literall...