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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the authorТs imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright й 2002 by Holly Lisle
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Vincalis the Agitator
Holly Lisle
Vincalis the Agitator is set one thousand years before the events in the novels of The Secret Texts series. Vincalis the Agitator is the story of a young man, Vincalis УWraithФ Padeuay, from the wrong side of the tracks, who befriends Solander Artis and Amaran Dolassa, children of the city's ruling wizards, the Dragons. When Wraith and his friends learn of how the Dragons maintain their magic and city by enslaving, brainwashing, and taxing the souls of the people, they organize public nonviolent protests. The Dragons immediately have Wraith and his friends arrested and imprisoned, and several of the prisoners are executed. When Wraith finally makes his escape, he finds that his one true love, Amaran, has pledged to marry another. Feeling lost and furious, having suffered poverty, deprivation, humiliation, and imprisonment, Wraith recognizes within himself a compassion for humanity and a passion for justice. He creates his alter ego, Vincalis the Agitator, who writes subversive materials and helps found the rival wizard group, the Falcons. In the end, Vincalis and his Falcons must defend humanity against the Dragons and the dangers that accompany a war of wizards.
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Holly Lisle has lived in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Alaska, and several other states in the U.S. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked for ten years as an emergency and intensive care nurse. She has also been a commercial artist, guitar teacher, and restaurant singer, among other things. She is the author or coauthor of sixteen previous novels.

The Realm of Pain
The Hars Ticlarim was an empire built on the suffering of others. Its builders wanted it that way. They didnТt want to take responsibility for their own spells; they didnТt want to limit what they could do merely to defense. More magic use meant that they could expand the empire, or keep in line the parts of it already acquired. But what wizard would use magic if he had to take the cost of the spell from his own flesh and blood and bones and life? Why would he do that, when he could channel both the power to fuel his spell and the rebound from it into caged creatures that he had convinced himself were not truly human? Who was going to overturn three thousand years of Уthis is the way we do thingsФ?
Praise for Holly LisleТs The Secret Texts
УA grand adventure.Ф
ЧLocus
УTension-filledа.а.а. a worthy successor to the works of Tolkien.а.а.а. The pacing is fast, the dialogue believable. The writing is poetic and lyrical, celebrating all the joys of living.Ф
ЧVOYA
УRousing.Ф
ЧScience Fiction Chronicle
УCarefully crafted and well thought outа.а.а. wonderful.Ф
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BOOKS BY HOLLY LISLE
The Secret Texts Trilogy
Diplomacy of Wolves
Vengeance of Dragons
Courage of Falcons
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For Matthew
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And to
Betsy Mitchell
with thanks
Book One



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