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    Journey To Chaos
    Journey To Chaos
    Journey To Chaos
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    Journey To Chaos

    By Eve Hathaway

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    From the Publisher that brought you popular Young Adults short story series Children of Time, Children of Two Futures, The Magaram Legends, Chains of Darkness, and Song of Teeth.

    And now, Splicers Series...

    IS THERE REALLY A DIFFERENCE TO THE PARAGON AND THE PARIAH?
    JOURNEY TO CHAOS

    “She was about to loose a criminal at their threshold, and if untying the bandit in their midst wasn’t enough to get her caught, showing her struggle surely would.”
    Years of failure have finally culminated in a bitter success as Madrigale Audler has spliced energy with another person for the first time, allowing her to generate an emerald aura around her body that she can burst to make a concussive explosion all around her.

    The problem, however, is that the person she was able to bond with in order to generate this energy is a member of the most cutthroat group of bandits the splicers have ever encountered.

    Now with this thief as her hostage, she must harbor him as a secret fugitive so he can’t leave her custody until he has answered the questions that plague her. How could an outsider learn the arcane secrets of splicing auras? Are there other renegade splicers in the wilderness? And, most importantly, why does her aura show that she connects more easily with vicious criminals than with her own partner accompanying her on this mission?

    As she and her partner, Logan, approach the village where they were sent to spread the word and influence of splicers, she must find a way to make the bandit appear like a harmless visitor while also protecting an entire population from his murderous potential.

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    “Fair enough!” Toole said. “Then you can’t lose. Am I right?” He had yet to stop grinning. “In fact, there’s Rule Three for ya. I hadn’t invented that part yet, so thanks.”

    Palloroak’s eyes narrowed like the blunt edge of a blade vanishing against a grindstone. “Why would you need to invent rules? I thought you said the people from your homeland play this game.”

    “The people from my homeland,” Toole said, “are also filthy liars.”

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSandra Ross
    Release dateSep 22, 2013
    ISBN9781301011636
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      Journey To Chaos - Eve Hathaway

      Journey To Chaos

      By Eve Hathaway

      Published by Publications Circulations LLC.

      SmashWords Edition

      All contents copyright (C) 2013 by Publications Circulations LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this document or the related files may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, by any means (electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, companies and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

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      Chapter One

      MADRIGALE FOLLOWED BEHIND the horse-drawn cart that her group had looted from the bandits' camp and eyed the bindings around her hostage's wrists. Toole twiddled his fingers about playfully as if he knew she were watching and was trying to make her paranoid that this performance was all some sleight-of-hand trick to escape. His occasional smirk bobbed up and down with the uneven road to Dioled-a village that was surely nothing more than the nearest prison to this thief.

      Her partner, Logan, staggered back from his position beside the cart and nudged her. His tattered clothes and the dirt caked in his skin reminded her of how they all must have looked, shambling along that road like plague-bearers in pilgrimage. He licked his dry lips to whisper, a scab glinting with a more vivid red where the bandits had split them open. He's not a threat anymore, you know.

      Madrigale shook her head. Then why are you afraid he'll hear you talking about him?

      Logan shifted his jaw in consideration and then shrugged off her question. His hand griped the hilt of the dagger he had stolen from Baerik Silvertongue, the bandit leader they had left in a cage back at their woodland hideout.

      From the way he toyed with it, Madrigale knew he was concerned mostly with the enemies they didn't have in custody, not Toole; but if Toole were to escape, Logan clearly didn't want to be the first target on the man's list.

      Deadliness isn't something you can just tie up, he finally said.

      Madrigale studied the nimble fingers still dancing below the wrist-restraints.

      They approached a hill, and Caleb fell into step with Madrigale. She expected the Dioledian to thank them yet again for rescuing their group, but instead he only arched his hand like the crest of an arrow, cutting forward over the scenery and saying, Dioled is only a short distance from the top there. Not much farther until we're all in our own beds.

      He cleared his throat. Thanks to you two, of course. I'm sorry you're still so far from home.

      Home.

      Madrigale had to stifle her urge to laugh at that word with a cough. She was more excited to see Dioled than to ever return to the Ether Edifice and the other splicers who rejected her or wrote her off as just a failure. She cast a short glance at Logan, wondering if he still thought about her as some useless excuse for a partner in this recruiting mission.

      Toole caught her looking, his head twisted to the side, eyes tracing the gap between the two splicers that had captured him. That smirk

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