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Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
Mercedes Lackey & Ellen Guon

Summoned to Tourney
Mercedes Lackey & Ellen Guon

Bedlam Boyz
Ellen Guon

ALSO BY MERCEDES LACKEY
FROM BAEN BOOKS
Bardic Voices: The Lark & the Wren
Bardic Voices: The Robin & the Kestrel

Bardic Choices: A Cast of Corbies
(with Josepha Sherman)

Fortress of Frost & Fire: A Bard's Tale Novel
(with Ru Emerson)

Prison of Souls: A Bard's Tale Novel
(with Mark Shepherd)

The Ship Who Searched
(with Anne McCaffrey)

Wing Commander: Freedom Flight
(with Ellen Guon)

If I Pay Thee Not in Gold
(with Piers Anthony)

CHAPTER ONE
A dark red Mustang perched beside the ribbon of highway, alone but for the
young man resting against its door. It was an unusual sight for such a place,
here where the shallow water of the wetlands reflected moonlight, and endless
silvered marsh grasses whispered in the breeze. The cicadas didn't care if the
man was there, nor did the night-birds, nor the foxes and raccoons-they were
used to the comings-and-goings of men in their loud machines, and would avoid
him. There would seem to be no reason for him to be stopped here-no smoke or
steam poured from beneath the nostrilled hood, no line of shredded rubber
marked a newly departed tire. A highway patrol officer would have been very
interested-if there had been one anywhere within twenty miles. And that, too,
was unusual; this close to Savannah, there should be police cruising this
stretch of road.
"One of these nights," griped Tannim to no one in particular, "I'll have a
normal drive, with nothing chasing me, pestering me, shooting at me . . . no
breakdowns, no detours, no country-western music, no problems. Peace, quiet,
and the road. No place to go, no one to save, no butts to cover except my