The Turncoat Prince

Title and front matter

THE TURNCOAT PRINCE

ANAMAT IV

Amelia Smith

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Copyright © 2016 Amelia Smith

All rights reserved.

ISBN-13: 978-1-941334-17-1 (ebook)

Published by Split Rock Books

Cover art: The Hunters in the Snow 1565. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, by Pieter Bruegel (I). This work is in the public domain, found via Wikimedia Commons.

Cover and book design by the author

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, events, and locations are fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons or events, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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The Turncoat Prince

Darna is just a guildswoman, or so she’d like to think, but her alleged father was the prince of a backwater province. Her uncle assassinated him to claim the throne, and now he's coming after her.

With assassins on her heels, Darna takes on a job in the remote province of Slaradun. The prince is irate to find that this limping woman has replaced the able-bodied man he hired, but according to the contract, he’s stuck with her for the season. Darna finds the prince arrogant and high-handed, but he’s also intelligent and well-read. As winter closes in on Slaradun keep, late night conversations turn from sea walls to more intimate territory, and the province’s lost dragon reappears.

This book is the fourth in the Anamat series. If you want to read Darna’s story from the beginning, start with Scrapplings, in which she first sets out for the city of Anamat, leaving the dragon-blind provinces behind.