Guardians of the Keep: Book Two of the Bridge of D'Arnath (79 page)
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Authors: Carol Berg
Tags: #Fiction, #Fantasy, #Epic, #General
Bareil went to summon Jayereth’s husband. The Preceptor Gar’Dena, a giant of a man resplendent in
green silk and a ruby-studded belt, brusquely dispatched the other Preceptors to the duties I had
detailed. When Gar’Dena and I were left alone, he looked down at Jayereth. “Has there been any
disruption in the Circle? Any sign from Marcus or the others? This event leaves me wary of all our
enterprises.”
I shook my head. “No ill word from the Circle.” As far as we knew the Lords had not yet noticed our
most powerful sorcerers taking up positions on the boundaries of the Vales, ready to form an expanding
ring of impenetrable enchantment around the healthy lands of my adopted world. “As of yesterday,
Ce’Aret had almost two hundred in place. And we’ve had no news of our agents in Zhev’Na, but, of
course, we’ve no way to know if they’ve been taken. Maybe that’s what this is—the notice of their
failure.”
We both knew it wasn’t so. The elimination of Jayereth and her work was no blind strike of
retaliation, but clearly aimed. Someone knew what she had discovered and knew that she’d not yet
passed on all of her knowledge. Only six people in the universe knew the secret—and to every one of
them I would entrust my life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Though Carol Berg calls Colorado her home, her roots are in Texas in a family of teachers, musicians,
and railroad men. She has a degree in mathematics from Rice University and one in computer science
from the University of Colorado, but managed to squeeze in minors in English and art history along the
way. She has combined a career as a software engineer with her writing, while also raising three sons.
She lives with her husband at the foot of the Colorado mountains.
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