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    The Eternal Warrior
    The Eternal Warrior
    The Eternal Warrior
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    The Eternal Warrior

    By Jenna Maclaine

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    In the dawn of a new millennium, the goddess Morrigan must forge a new race of warriors to protect both Faerie and the human world from an unimaginable evil. Her hopes rest on the young soldier she has chosen to beget her line of vampires... until love and betrayal threaten to destroy her plans and doom both worlds.

    This short story is a prequel to the Cin Craven series, first published in The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJenna Maclaine
    Release dateJul 15, 2011
    ISBN9781465702425
    The Eternal Warrior
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    Jenna Maclaine

    Jenna Maclaine has a BA in history from North Georgia College & State University. When she isn't writing she spends her time caring for the 80+ animals that share her family farm in the beautiful foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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      Book preview

      The Eternal Warrior - Jenna Maclaine

      THE ETERNAL WARRIOR

      a short story from the Cin Craven series

      featured in the Mammoth Book of Irish Romance

      by

      Jenna Maclaine

      SMASHWORDS EDITION 2011

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      PUBLISHED BY:

      Jenna Maclaine on Smashwords

      The Righteous

      Copyright © 2009 Jenna Maclaine

      ISBN 978-1-4657-0242-5

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author's work.

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      Chapter One

      Castle Tara

      Connemara, Ireland

      1260

      They had come to kill him. At his invitation they had come, hundreds of them, across seas and continents, until they filled the courtyard of his great castle. They had come to vanquish the arrogant bastard who dared to claim sovereignty over the vampire nation. His summons had appealed to their pride, their vanity, their curiosity: an open challenge that whoever could defeat him in single combat would unite the world’s vampires under the authority of one High King.

      The warrior braced his hands on the cold gray stone of the parapet wall and listened with satisfaction to the murmuring voices below. When they had embarked on this journey they had been certain that the challenger would be easily dispatched, but now that confidence was beginning to waver, for Castle Tara was unlike anything they had seen before. It was a palace straight out of Faerie, built for beauty and not defense. There was nothing like it this side of the Veil. Indeed, the whole structure often slipped in and out of Faerie in order to keep itself hidden from human eyes.

      The vampires below truly had no understanding of what they were walking into. One complained bitterly of the cramped quarters that surely awaited them, for no castle could comfortably house this many people. The warrior smiled. Even now the stewards were showing his guests to their chambers and he had no doubt that they would all find their quarters more than satisfactory. The castle was almost a

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