The Destroyer Goddess

Praise for

The Destroyer Goddess

The Silerian Trilogy: Book Three

Year's Best list,
Publisher's Weekly

Year's Best list,
Voya

"Fast-paced, witty and full of action, the book is a marvel of storytelling, but it's the credible, complex relationships among the characters that elevates this far above the usual fantasy standard... Resnick fans have cause to rejoice."

—[starred review]
Publishers Weekly

"The rivalries and feuds continue fast and furious, not to say bloody, and Tansen nearly loses his life. But a mysterious boy from the ranks of the waterlords saves Tansen to continue his struggle to a breathless and satisfactory conclusion. The tale will certainly keep its series audience industriously turning pages and make them hope Resnick has more in store for them."

—
Booklist

"Free will wars with vague prophecy and divine intervention in this epic romantic fantasy, which will stay with readers long after the satisfying conclusion... [Resnick's] mythology and world-building are flawless, the characters are convincing and complex, and Sileria is intoxicatingly believable."

                        —
Romantic Times

"Resnick's writing is as sharp as always. The book may be hefty but every word is essential... Characters are the heart of great writing, and this is great writing. Let's hope Resnick never stops."

—
Cincinnati Enquirer

Copyright

The Destroyer Goddess

Copyright © 2003 & 2011 by Laura Resnick

ISBN: 978-1-61475-881-5

Ebook published by Blonde Trifecta

Maps by Elizabeth Person

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

The copying, reproduction, and distribution of this ebook via any means without permission of the author is illegal and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and refuse to participate in or encourage the electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author's intellectual property rights is greatly appreciated. 

To my cousin Robert, his wife 

Glenda, and their son Brian

Foreword to the E-Book Edition of

The Destroyer Goddess

The Silerian Trilogy: Book Three

This ebook contains some extra features which were not in the original hardcover and paperback editions of
The Destroyer Goddess.

First and foremost are the color maps, which I commissioned from my friend Elizabeth Person. If you have a black-and-white e-reader and would like to see the color versions, or if you'd just like to see a larger image of the maps and some additional information about them, they're posted on my website.

There's also a
Glossary
of various terms created for the world of the novel, as well as directories of
Characters
,
Clans
,
Factions
, and
Place Names
.

The Destroyer Goddess
has been out of print for a few years, and I am delighted to be able to make it available again. I hope you enjoy this novel—as well as the first two books of this trilogy,
In Legend Born
and
The White Dragon.

—Laura Resnick

Interregnum

Dar, the destroyer goddess, chose Sileria 

as Her home... and no one loves 

destruction the way a Silerian does.

—Ambassador Kaynall,

                  former Imperial Advisor in Sileria

The last of the Valdani warships left Sileria and set sail for the mainland, ending centuries of foreign rule as Emperor Jarell's forces withdrew from the mountainous island nation which dominated the Middle Sea, once named Sirkara—heart of the world—by an ancient people whose forgotten empire had been the first of many to rise in glory and descend in flames.

The last of the Valdani ships left Sileria... but not the last of the Valdani. During two hundred years of occupation, generations of Valdani had been born in Sileria, and this was the only home they knew. Although some fled to the imperial city of Valda or sought refuge somewhere in her sprawling empire, many others remained, unwilling to abandon the land of their birth. But after two centuries of harsh Valdani rule, many Silerians were eager to murder any Valdan who didn't leave the newly-freed nation which Josarian the Firebringer had died to liberate from the heavy yoke of Valdani rule.