Sartor (42 page)

As soon as she could, she would show Tsauderei the letter
and discuss a strategy. She knew what he’d say—more important, she
knew what to do. She would regard Detlev’s threat as a warning.

Imagining Tsauderei’s smile and his slow clap of
approval, she laughed and slid the note into one of the pockets of the gown she’d
sewn when she was a dreaming princess sitting in the Delfina cottage and
wondering what her future would bring.

This was her life, and it was just beginning.

Sartor

Sherwood Smith

Book View Café Edition August 14, 2012
ISBN: 978-1-61138-192-4
Copyright © 2012 Sherwood Smith

Cover design and finished art: Dave Smeds
From source art by Maryna Halton and Julia Petrova, Dreamstime.com

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Sherwood Smith was a teacher for twenty years, working with children from second grade to high school, teaching history, literature, drama, and dance.

She writes science fiction and fantasy for adults and young readers.

Her most popular book,
Crown Duel,
is currently in its 16th printing. The ebook edition available at Book View Café contains extra material not available in the print edition.

Her full bibliography (including awards and books in print) is at
http://www.sherwoodsmith.net/Biblio/Biblio.html

Though she is known primarily as a fantasy writer, Sherwood and fellow BVC member Dave Trowbridge have collaborated on
Exordium
, a five-volume space opera.

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Fleeing Peace
Remalna’s Children
A Posse of Princesses
CJ’s Notebooks
Over the Sea
Mearsies Heili Bounces Back
Poor World
Hunt across Worlds
The Wren Series
Wren to the Rescue
Wren’s Quest
Wren’s War
Wren Journeymage
Exordium
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The Phoenix in Flight
Ruler of Naught
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Being Real
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Beyond Grimm
Brewing Fine Fiction
Ways to Trash Your Writing Career
Dragon Lords and Warrior Women

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