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    The Bronze Knight
    The Bronze Knight
    The Bronze Knight
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    The Bronze Knight

    By Jonathan Moeller

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    Once banished by his father, Mazael Cravenlock is now a knight in service of Malden, Lord of Knightcastle...and Malden's wizard advisor, the cold and calculating Trocend.

    When Trocend sends Mazael to investigate rumors of dark magic, Mazael finds more than just rumors.

    Dark magic stirs in Knightcastle, and Mazael might be its first victim...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJonathan Moeller
    Release dateMar 6, 2016
    ISBN9781311470461
    The Bronze Knight
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    Jonathan Moeller

    Standing over six feet tall, Jonathan Moeller has the piercing blue eyes of a Conan of Cimmeria, the bronze-colored hair of a Visigothic warrior-king, and the stern visage of a captain of men, none of which are useful in his career as a computer repairman, alas.He has written the "Demonsouled" trilogy of sword-and-sorcery novels, and continues to write the "Ghosts" sequence about assassin and spy Caina Amalas, the "$0.99 Beginner's Guide" series of computer books, and numerous other works.Visit his website at:http://www.jonathanmoeller.comVisit his technology blog at:http://www.jonathanmoeller.com/screed

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      Book preview

      The Bronze Knight - Jonathan Moeller

      THE BRONZE KNIGHT

      Jonathan Moeller

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      Description

      Once banished by his father, Mazael Cravenlock is now a knight in service of Malden, Lord of Knightcastle...and Malden's wizard advisor, the cold and calculating Trocend.

      When Trocend sends Mazael to investigate rumors of dark magic, Mazael finds more than just rumors.

      Dark magic stirs in Knightcastle, and Mazael might be its first victim...

      ***

      The Serpent Knight

      Copyright 2016 by Jonathan Moeller.

      Smashwords Edition.

      Cover images copyright Katalikns | Dreamstime.com & Carlos Caetano | Dreamstime.com & Daniil Peshkov | Dreamstime.com & © Prometeus | Dreamstime.com - Strong Man Photo.

      Ebook edition published March 2016.

      All Rights Reserved.

      This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination, or, if real, used fictitiously. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written permission of the author or publisher, except where permitted by law.

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      Chapter 1: Bad Match

      Mazael got drunk.

      It was nothing something he did every night. As a household knight of Lord Malden Roland of Knightcastle, Mazael Cravenlock found himself involved in fights ranging from brawls to battles on a regular basis, and he needed to keep his wits sharp and his arms strong. Lord Malden had many enemies, and he needed knights and armsmen to fight them.

      Yet not all of Mazael’s duties to Lord Malden involved battle.

      Chief among Lord Malden’s foes was the Dominiar Order, the order of knights that ruled the land of Mastaria to the south, and the Order’s Grand Master Malleus had long been a foe of Lord Malden. The Dominiars and the House of Roland had skirmished several times, and everyone knew that sooner or later the Dominiar Order and Lord Malden would go to war.

      So, of course, Lord Malden invited Grand Master Malleus to a feast.

      The Dominiars sent an escort of knights and armsmen to protect their Grand Master, and Malden feasted them in the Court of Challengers in the second tier of Knightcastle’s three concentric curtain walls. Lord Malden expected his household knights to attend the feast, and so Mazael attended, sitting with the other unmarried knights in the edges of the Court.

      He might have been sitting at the edges, but that did not mean he escaped attention. Several Dominiar Knights visited him, inquiring politely whether or not Mazael’s older brother Mitor might be interested in an alliance against Lord Malden. After all, Mazael’s father Adalon Cravenlock had once been the liege lord of the Grim Marches, and with the help of the Order, Mitor Cravenlock could be the liege lord again. Lord Mitor need only aid the Dominiars against Lord Malden, and the Dominiar Order always remembered its friends.

      Mazael told them, much less politely, to go to hell.

      He was not about to betray Lord Malden. For that matter, he had despised his father and he hated his brother Mitor, and he certainly would not betray Lord Malden on behalf of a spineless worm like Mitor. He told the Dominiars that, at length.

      And maybe louder than was polite in the court of Knightcastle.

      Thinking about his family always put Mazael in a foul mood, and he wound up drinking quite a bit more than he intended, and then even more. Lord Malden’s seneschals had brought out the good wine in honor of their guests, and Mazael liked good wine.

      After the feast, Mazael staggered back to his rooms in the curtain wall of Knightcastle’s outer courtyard, his squire Gerald keeping a cautious eye on him. Gerald Roland was Lord Malden’s youngest son, a sober, dutiful boy of thirteen. Gerald did not approve of drunkenness, brawling, quarreling, whoring, and other forms of immoral behavior.

      Which meant he didn’t approve of a lot of what Mazael did, come to think of it.

      But the boy had good instincts, and had the potential to become an excellent knight.

      You don’t need to follow me, said Mazael, walking across

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