:Not every problem can be solved. Or needs to be.: Out loud he said, “There'll be Bards visiting this summer.”
“How do you know?”
“I'm a Herald.” He grinned. “I know things. And, in a couple of years, I'll see you in Haven.”
:You hate staying in Haven.:
:I didn't say I was going to stay. I just said I'd see her there.:
:And then tragically abandon her?:
:Stop it.:
“You don't look so sad when you talk to him in your head.” She planted her feet and struck a dramatic pose. “This is as far as I'm allowed to go. Can I hug you? I'm clean.”
“You could hug me if you were dirty,” he told her.
She shook her head, one plait falling loose. “That would be so tragically wrong.”
Hugging Annamarin had nothing to do with being seven or ten or fourteen. When hugged her, as her cousin and a Herald, he hugged the future, not the past.
:You didn't tell your grandmother she shouldn't write to the Dean,: Gervis pointed out when Jors was in the saddle and there was nothing but open road before them.
:I know. I was afraid it would only encourage her.:
Gervis snorted.:You were afraid.:
:That too. But the last thing I need is Gran and the dean starting up a correspondence.: Jors twisted and looked back toward the settlement. Annamarin must have reached the end of the track because he could just hear the geese protesting her return. This is what made me. He settled back in the saddle. This is what I am.
Birth family. Found family.
:Pick up the pace, Heartbrother, let's go home.:
ALSO BY TANYA HUFF
THE BLOOD BOOKS
Blood Price
Blood Trail
Blood Pact
Blood Debt
THE SMOKE BOOKS
Smoke and Shadows
Smoke and Mirrors
Smoke and Ashes
THE QUARTERS NOVELS
Sing the Four Quarters*
Fifth Quarter*
No Quarter*
The Quartered Sea*
THE KEEPER CHRONICLES
Summon the Keeper
The Second Summoning
Long Hot Summoning
TORIN KERR NOVELS
Valor Novels
Valor's Choice^
The Better Part of Valor^
Heart of Valor
The Truth of Valor
Peacekeeper Novels
An Ancient Peace
A Peace Divided
The Privilege of Peace
THE ENCHANTMENT EMPORIUM
The Enchantment Emporium
The Wild Ways
The Future Falls
STANDALONES
The Fire's Stone*
Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light*
Wizard of the Grove
The Silvered
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
What Ho, Magic!
Stealing Magic
Relative Magic
Finding Magic
Nights of the Round Table*
Swan's Braid, and other tales of Terizan*
He Said, Sidhe Said*
Third Time Lucky*
Three Quarters*
The Demon's Den and Other Tales of Valdemar*
*available as a Jabberwocky ebook
^also available in the omnibus A Confederation of Valor
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Although she left Nova Scotia at three, and has lived most of her life since in Ontario, Tanya Huff still considers herself a Maritimer. On the way to the idyllic rural existence she shares with her partner Fiona Patton, six cats, and a Chihuahua, she acquired a degree in Radio and Television Arts from Ryerson Polytechnic—an education she was happy to finally use when writing her SMOKE novels. Of her previous twenty-three books, the five BLOOD novels featuring Henry Fitzroy, a bastard son of Henry VIII, romance writer, and vampire, are among the most popular.
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