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Hunting Party
by Elizabeth Moon

Copyright 1993

Familias Regnant Books by Elizabeth Moon

1. Hunting Party
2. Sporting Chance
3. Winning Colors
4. Once a Hero
5. Rules of Engagement
6. Change of Command
7. Against the Odds

[Blurb]

PARTY FAVORS

They were somewhere inside, dry and safe. He imagined nooks and crannies cushioned with
colorful pillows and rugs, rock-walled chambers where naked nymphs bathed in clear subterranean
pools or streams.... He crept through the darkness, smugly certain of what he would find. The light
strengthened; he felt his way around a corner of the rock, and saw them at last.

His first thought was disappointment; the dark-haired girl had her arm around the lucky first-
comer. The Prince wondered why he'd preferred her to the more curvaceous blonde. His second
thought stumbled over the first in a wave of righteous rage. Ronnie!

"You unspeakable cad!" he said. "What are you..."

His voice trailed away as he noticed that the two black circles facing him were the bores of hunting
rifles like his own. Each girl, blonde and dark, held hers steadily. "You're hunters, too?" he asked,
with a half-nervous laugh.

Ronnie's head came around, and he saw the dark stain of a black eye and bruised face. "My sainted
aunt," Ronnie said, in a voice that didn't sound much like his own. "It's the Prince."

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Chapter One