Michelle West - Sun Sword 01 - The Broken Crown

The Finest in
Fantasy by Michelle West

The
Sacred Hunt

HUNTER'S OATH

HUNTER'S DEATH

The
Sun Sword

THE BROKEN CROWN
THE UNCROWNED KING
THE SHINING COURT
SEA OF SORROWS
THE RIVEN SHIELD
THE SUN SWORD

The
Broken Crown

(The Sun
Sword: Book One)

Michelle West

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Copyright © 1997 by
Michelle Sagara.
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Cover art by Jody Lee.

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For Thomas, Because
Kiriel was always for you.

Acknowledgments
Dramatis Personae
Prologue:

CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE.
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
CHAPTER THIRTY
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

Ken
and Tami Sagara made the writing of this book possible,
period. If I start to list everything they do, I'll feel like I'm
a
child, not
their
child, although I admit the
distinction in their minds has probably blurred more than it should
have by now.

Thomas made the writing possible, because he offers me both
encouragement and advice without being either cloying or hurtful—and
for this book, I needed a lot of both. And everything else that gets
taken for granted when I'm in the middle of obsessive writerly vision.

Kelly Sagara read the page proofs when I was too sick to do
so—which takes a special fortitude all its own—and because of her help,
I didn't miss what otherwise would have been an impossible deadline.

And Sheila Gilbert made the writing of this book as difficult
as possible—because when she's right, she doesn't give up; she cares
about the
book
. Which, in my humble opinion, is
exactly what an editor should do. I hope I lived up to the challenges
she set.

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Annagarian
Ranks

Dramatis
Personae

ESSALIEYAN

The Royals

The Non-Royals

The Hostages

Ser Fillipo par
di'Callesta (Averda)
:
brother to the Tyr'agnate of Averda
Serra Tara di'Callesta
:
his Serra
Michaele di'Callesta
: oldest son
Frederick
di'Callesta
: youngest son
Andrea en'Callesta
:
his concubine