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    Blood of a Sultan: The Divided Sultanate, #0
    Blood of a Sultan: The Divided Sultanate, #0
    Blood of a Sultan: The Divided Sultanate, #0
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    Blood of a Sultan: The Divided Sultanate, #0

    By Fuad Baloch

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    A bumbling city guard. A ghastly murder. Terror in the Sultan's Realm.     

    A grisly crime and a grieving widow plunge Shoki, a lowly city guard—who never wanted the job (thanks mother and father) and is described by his superiors, in their kinder moments, as blundering—into an investigation that involves no less than one who claimed himself a Sultan of the Realm.

    Shoki is sure he's got it right. He knows who the killer is.

    But does he have the courage to defy his commanders, buck a system that hasn't the least leeway for independent initiative, and bring a killer to justice? 

    If you like exotic settings and well-rounded characters in your epic fantasy, then you'll love "Blood of a Sultan". Grab this exciting short story now!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFuad Baloch
    Release dateNov 20, 2018
    ISBN9781386057918
    Blood of a Sultan: The Divided Sultanate, #0
    Author

    Fuad Baloch

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      Blood of a Sultan - Fuad Baloch

      Blood of a Sultan

      Blood of a Sultan

      A Short Story set in the Divided Sultanate series

      Fuad Baloch

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      Blood of a Sultan

      "A nd that’s how the blood of the old Sultan died, whimpered the old, dignified woman, rocking sideways as she knelt on the dusty floor. Ah, the world’s poorer without him!"

      Shoki shook his head. As tragic as the murder was, it wouldn’t do to get facts mixed up—whoever the dead man was, he most definitely wasn’t part of the royal family.

      The Sultan’s family member is brutally murdered, said the woman, whose name Shoki had jotted down and promptly forgotten. And the city guards managed to send… only you two?

      Shoki licked his lips. Well, we’re p-pretty good at what we do.

      Did you say something? asked the woman, leaning forward as if his words had failed to rise over the din of traders crying outside the dingy, dusty cottage in the middle of the mercantile district.

      Sahiba Razia, boomed Salar Ihagra, Shoki’s commander, his white mustache quivering, seemingly unperturbed by the courage that

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