The Red Wyvern: Book One of the Dragon Mage

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Authors: Katharine Kerr

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DEADLY ATTACK

Silver horns were blaring; captains and lords were yelling at the tops of their lungs. The last of the regent’s men mobbed around the gates in Dun Deverry’s wall, yelling and screaming as they tried to push through to safety.

“Speed, men!” the prince cried out. “If we rush them, we can take those gates!”

The prince turned his horse so hard that his guards rode right past him. Swearing, they swung out in an arc to turn and ride back. The dust of the retreat hung like smoke, but Branoic could see the prince charging straight for the gates.

“My liege!” Branoic screamed. “Wait! Stop!”

But the prince rode on, unmindful that he was alone.…

B
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K
ATHARINE
K
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Her novels of Deverry and the Westlands

THE BRISTLING WOOD
THE DRAGON REVENANT
A TIME OF EXILE
A TIME OF OMENS
DAGGERSPELL
DAYS OF BLOOD AND FIRE
DARKSPELL
DAYS OF AIR AND DARKNESS
THE RED WYVERN
THE BLACK RAVEN
THE FIRE DRAGON

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PUBLISHING HISTORY
Bantam trade edition published December 1997
Bantam paperback edition / September 1998

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Copyright © 1997 by Katharine Kerr.
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For Jo Clayton

AUTHOR’S NOTE

I must apologize to the faithful readers of this ongoing project who have had to wait so long for the volume now in hand. I have been much distracted of late by legal matters, in particular the suits and countersuits concerning a certain Elvish scholar of Elvish and his libellous attacks upon me. When Gwerbret Aberwyn ruled in our favor in malover, my publishers and I hoped that the matter had ended at last, but alas, our opponent saw fit to appeal to the High King himself. After an enervating journey by coach and barge on the part of myself and a representative of my publisher, we settled into a suite at a public guesthouse in Dun Deverry and filed our countersuit. While we waited for our proceedings to be summoned, I once again applied myself to the craft for which I am better suited than legal wrangling, that of writing novels.

Some months later, we are still waiting. Let us hope that the High King’s courts take up and dispose of this matter soon.

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