Michelle West - The Sun Sword 03 - The Shining Court

(The Sun Sword Book Three)

Dedication:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Annagarian Ranks

PROLOGUE
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
CHAPTER THIRTY
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

Copyright © 1999 by Michelle Sagara. All Rights Reserved.

Cover art by Jody Lee.

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This is for Daniel and Ross and their father,

the three men I'm looking forward to sharing the rest of my life with.

Almost too many to go into, and the karmic burden will haunt me for lifetimes, I'm certain.

My mother and my father, my husband and my oldest son, were all particularly forgiving in the last eight weeks of the book's harried life when I didn't join them for lunch or dinner and turned the entire household schedule upside down.

My son's godfather, John Chew—also one of my closest friends—who picked my son up every day after school while I worked on this book, thereby earning me the envy of almost every mother in the neighborhood, and with just cause. He also ran interference by telling the
rest
of our friends that, in fact, I was completely psychotic with stress and should not be disturbed if one valued life, which I suppose was one way of putting it… but I hope not an entirely accurate one…

And last, thanks to the usual suspects at DAW: Sheila Gilbert and Debra Euler who are busy trying to keep a business based on art and artistic temperament running smoothly, with the usual frenetic results one would expect.

I have no idea who the guys in the production department are, but if I ever see them, I imagine I owe them a whole lot more than just a round of drinks.