Contents

One: The Golden Ax

Two: Death to the Emperor!

Three: Skirmishing

Four: Casting the Net

Six: The Water Palace

Seven: The Yellow Silk Cord

Nine: Shadows in the Palace

Ten: Change in the Time of Dews

Twelve: Games of Empire

Thirteen: The Feast of Corn

Fourteen: To Speak for the Emperor

Fifteen: The Smuggler’s Track

Sixteen: The Negaret

Seventeen: Alegria

Eighteen: King Bairan

Nineteen: The Second Betrayal

Twenty: The Azaz’s Curse

Twenty-One: The Healing Fire

Twenty-Two: The Breakout

Twenty-Three: Bloody Roads South

Twenty-Four: The Empty City

Twenty-Five: The Doom that Came to Jarrah

Twenty-Six: The Bridges at Sidor

Twenty-Seven: Death on the Suebi

Twenty-Eight: Betrayal and Flight

Twenty-Nine: Cambiaso

Thirty-One: The Message