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  Yolric: Teacher of Esrahaddon

  Zephyr, Brother: Monk at rebuild Winds Abbey, illustrator

  Zulron: Deformed oberdaza of Oudorro

  Contents

  FRONT COVER IMAGE

  WELCOME

  DEDICATION

  EPIGRAPH

  KNOWN REGIONS OF THE WORLD OF ELAN

  MAP

  CHAPTER 1: THE CHILD

  CHAPTER 2: NIGHTMARES

  CHAPTER 3: PRISONS

  CHAPTER 4: FALL THE WALL

  CHAPTER 5: THE MARQUIS OF GLOUSTON

  CHAPTER 6: VOLUNTEERS

  CHAPTER 7: THE LAUGHING GNOME

  CHAPTER 8: AMBERTON LEE

  CHAPTER 9: WAR NEWS

  CHAPTER 10: BENEATH THE LEE

  CHAPTER 11: THE PATRIARCH

  CHAPTER 12: THIEVES END

  CHAPTER 13: THE VOYAGE OF THE HARBINGER

  CHAPTER 14: THE COLD

  CHAPTER 15: PERCEPLIQUIS

  CHAPTER 16: THE WHITE RIVER

  CHAPTER 17: THE GRAND MAR

  CHAPTER 18: DUST AND STONE

  CHAPTER 19: SEALING OF THE GATE

  CHAPTER 20: THE VAULT OF DAYS

  CHAPTER 21: THE SACRIFICE

  CHAPTER 22: NOVRON THE GREAT

  CHAPTER 23: THE SKY SWIRLS

  CHAPTER 24: THE GIFT

  CHAPTER 25: THE ARRIVAL

  CHAPTER 26: THE RETURN

  CHAPTER 27: THE CHALLENGE

  CHAPTER 28: FULL CIRCLE

  CHAPTER 29: FROM OUT OF A CLEAR BLUE SKY

  EXTRAS

  MEET THE AUTHOR

  A PREVIEW OF SEVEN PRINCES

  BOOKS BY MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN

  GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND NAMES

  COPYRIGHT

  Copyright

  The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

  Teaser from Seven Princes by John R. Fultz to be published Jan 2012.

  Copyright © 2012 by Michael Sullivan

  Excerpt from Seven Princes copyright © 2012 by John R. Fultz

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  First e-book edition: January 2012

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  ISBN 978-0-316-20340-1