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First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2019

Copyright © Den Patrick 2019

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Source ISBN: 9780008228163

Ebook Edition © September 2019 ISBN: 9780008228187

Version: 2019-04-18

Dedication

For Matt

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Map

Chapter One: Steiner

Chapter Two: Kimi

Chapter Three: Kjellrunn

Chapter Four: Silverdust

Chapter Five: Steiner

Chapter Six: Kimi

Chapter Seven: Kjellrunn

Chapter Eight: Steiner

Chapter Nine: Silverdust

Chapter Ten: Steiner

Chapter Eleven: Kjellrunn

Chapter Twelve: Kimi

Chapter Thirteen: Silverdust

Chapter Fourteen: Steiner

Chapter Fifteen: Kjellrunn

Chapter Sixteen: Kimi

Chapter Seventeen: Silverdust

Chapter Eighteen: Steiner

Chapter Nineteen: Kimi

Chapter Twenty: Kjellrunn

Chapter Twenty-One: Silverdust

Chapter Twenty-Two: Steiner

Chapter Twenty-Three: Taiga

Chapter Twenty-Four: Kjellrunn

Chapter Twenty-Five: Silverdust

Chapter Twenty-Six: Steiner

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Kimi

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Kjellrunn

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Silverdust

Chapter Thirty: Steiner

Chapter Thirty-One: Kimi

Chapter Thirty-Two: Kjellrunn

Chapter Thirty-Three: Silverdust

Chapter Thirty-Four: Steiner

Chapter Thirty-Five: Kimi

Chapter Thirty-Six: Kjellrunn

Chapter Thirty-Seven: Silverdust

Chapter Thirty-Eight: Steiner

Chapter Thirty-Nine: Taiga

Chapter Forty: Kjellrunn

Chapter Forty-One: Silverdust

Chapter Forty-Two: Steiner

Chapter Forty-Three: Kimi

Chapter Forty-Four: Kjellrunn

Chapter Forty-Five: Steiner

Chapter Forty-Six: Kimi

Chapter Forty-Seven: Silverdust

Chapter Forty-Eight: Steiner

Chapter Forty-Nine: Kimi

Chapter Fifty: Steiner

Chapter Fifty-One: Kimi

Acknowledgements

Also by Den Patrick

About the Publisher

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CHAPTER ONE

Steiner

It was just before dawn; a prelude to the sun lay across the horizon like shimmering gold. The few clouds that scudded across the sky were a spectral white, travelling over a sea of deep and majestic blue.

Steiner stood at the prow of the Watcher’s Wait in awe, adoring every second of the early morning. Cinderfell, his home of eighteen years, had always existed under a pall of permanent grey cloud. The winters promised grey snow and the spring gritty rain. There were few places more bleak in all of Nordvlast, few places more grim in the whole of Vinterkveld. But not so today. They were many leagues from Cinderfell and the dark red frigate sailed ever further south. Steiner basked under the blue skies, savouring the briny tang of the sea with every league travelled.