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    Door in the Wind
    Door in the Wind
    Door in the Wind
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    Door in the Wind

    By Meyari McFarland

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    Wind whipped around them, icy one second and then dry as a desert the next. Akuchi stood firm against it.

    The door in the wind blasted them, carrying threat from another world. Or perhaps that threat had already come through with the creeping unnatural moss coating the glade around them.

    Whatever the threat, Akuchi hoped that he could deal with it. Otherwise, his soulbond Prince Cyrille was doomed.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMDR Publishing
    Release dateApr 21, 2017
    ISBN9781370140640
    Door in the Wind
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    Meyari McFarland

    Meyari McFarland has been telling stories since she was a small child. Her stories range from SF and Fantasy adventures to Romances but they always feature strong characters who do what they think is right no matter what gets in their way. Her series range from Space Opera Romance in the Drath series to Epic Fantasy in the Mages of Tindiere world. Other series include Matriarchies of Muirin, the Clockwork Rift Steampunk mysteries, and the Tales of Unification urban fantasy stories, plus many more. You can find all of her work on MDR Publishing's website at www.MDR-Publishing.com.

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      Door in the Wind - Meyari McFarland

      Door in the Wind

      By Meyari McFarland

      Other Mages of Tindiere Stories:

      In Reading Order:

      Transplant of War

      Transplanted Destiny

      Inina's Blessings of Joy

      Threads of Hope

      Threads of Hate

      Threads of Birthing

      Blue Red Green

      Boiling the Ocean Away

      Tiny Gifts of Peace

      A Lone Red Tree

      Running From The Immortals

      Hearts of Magic

      Triumph of the Artificer Mages

      Artifacts of Awareness

      Tending the Temple

      City of the Dead

      You can find these and many other books at www.MDR_Publishing.com.

      Copyright ©2017 by Mary Raichle

      Cover image

      © Orson | Dreamstime.com - Tear Paper - Abstract Back Photo

      © breakermaximus | Dreamstime.com - Knight Photo

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be emailed to publisher@mdr-publishing.com.

      This book is also available in TPB format from all major retailers.

      Dedication:

      This story is dedicated to my father for feeding my love of fantasy and great stories. So much of this is directly related to the things he gave me to read all those years ago.

      Table of Contents

      Door in the Wind

      Excerpt: City of the Dead

      Afterword

      Door in the Wind

      Wind whipped around them, icy one second and then dry as a desert the next. Akuchi stood firm against it. As firm as he could. Gust buffeted him, trying to shove him away from the path that led to the Door in the Wind. The mossy stones under his feet did not help. Blackened slime coated them where sickly green moss did not. It made for most uncertain footing.

      He wouldn't have expected a Door like this in a forest. Well, a glade, actually. The grass further away was perfectly healthy, green and bright and lovely. It was only as one approached the Door in the Wind that the blight became obvious. Akuchi traced the lines of the sickly green moss as it slowly expanded outwards and frowned. Perhaps it wasn't as healthy a glade as it seemed.

      There were pockets of moss all the way out to the birch and spruce that surrounded the glade. Some of the birch had moss and slime creeping up their trunks. Those trees had few leaves. They were dying, life sucked out of them by the Door in the Wind.

      Not that that seemed to bother Xun Rosario, Slayer of Gods.

      She stood, her scarf pulled up to cover the pale gold of her mouth and chin. Above the scarf, her skin was the color of coagulating blood, a reddish-brown that looked distinctly like she'd been splashed with blood and allowed it to dry on her. Which she had. Godly blood, thus the stains. Hair that had once been black as night whipped in the wind like strands of fire adhered to her head. That at least was a bright red instead of the browner red of her skin.

      Not sure what I expected, Xun called over

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