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    Prince of Dread: Vampire Origins #4
    Prince of Dread: Vampire Origins #4
    Prince of Dread: Vampire Origins #4
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    Prince of Dread: Vampire Origins #4

    By AJ Cooper

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    From the ashes of civil war, the vampire nation emerges stronger than ever. Homar son of Homar, whom history will know as the PRINCE OF DREAD, musters his troops to avenge a nearly forgotten wrong.

    Caught in the wake of the vampire king’s ambition is Malirias, an escaped slave who would rather die than lose his false freedom. But the vampire nation does not forgive, and in the end he may perish in the tumult threatening to remake the world.

    A novella.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRealms of Varda
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
    ISBN9781311097996
    Prince of Dread: Vampire Origins #4
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    AJ Cooper

    Cursed at birth with a wild imagination, AJ Cooper spent his youth dreaming of worlds more exciting than Earth. He is a native Midwesterner and loves writing fantasy, especially epic fantasy set in his own created worlds.He is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop and the author of numerous fantasy novels and novellas. His short stories have appeared in Morpheus Tales, Fear and Trembling, Residential Aliens and Mindflights, among others.

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      Prince of Dread - AJ Cooper

      Prince of Dread

      Copyright © 2013 Andrew James Cooper

      Published by Realms of Varda at Smashwords

      www.vardabooks.com

      All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any print or electronic form without permission.

      All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

      PRINCE OF DREAD

      VAMPIRE ORIGINS #4

      AJ Cooper

      Less than a decade after Elras took the throne, his own body gave out, falling victim to years and years of Andomasi crab roasts, crisp honeywine, and venison dumplings. One night in midsummer, while reclining with his wife Samné, his heart was seized by a virulent tremor, and within minutes he had fallen dead. In the wake of his passing came Homar son of Homar, Lord of Agnon, of the House of Allenon, and his reign began with his mother’s death. Her meal was not poisoned; let the suspicious be ashamed, for no man of Homar’s mettle would so dishonor his family.

      —from the writings of Samon Druthas, Grand Historian

      CHAPTER ONE:

      Slave Catchers

      Malirias had no name or family to speak of, no holdings or land to call his own, no home, no wife, no children… nothing, really, except his freedom and his weapons—the only two things he needed.

      I call no man master, he thought as he stared from his high perch onto the whitecaps. But nonetheless he drew near his destination, the port where he’d disembark—mercenary that he was—to invade the city of Dundari under the pay of King Homar, all to make amends for some long-forgotten transgression, which only the historians of the druen race remembered. It was a useless expense of the nation’s resources—to level a town that bore no threat nor real enmity except in the forgotten past, all to sate the erudite King Homar’s history-fueled anger—but Malirias did not care one way or the other. Only one thing that mattered in life: gold, for with gold you can buy everything—women, wine, all the sensual cravings of the palate—and whoever said gold cannot buy friends lied. When Malirias had money, everyone wanted to be his friend.

      He wielded his weapons—a sword and longknife—with such legendary grace and finesse that every mercenary company wanted him. But he made sure that his employer, his leader, treated him as equal, for he had taken great precautions to remove himself the life of slavery. He had changed his name to Malirias, left his mother and father and siblings—all slaves—and became a wholly new person. Now he was no longer Dralynthi the peasant

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