Fifteen orphaned children, Tevron and his wife Mariette, and two wolfdogs shared the large wooden building he"d bought from the landowner after the Troll Wars were settled. As king"s advisor, he lived in the midst of the lush grasslands near Many Waters and the Agave Sea, in the area named Peace River. Though he ought to be content, the ambitious prince felt a charmed life had been snatched from him by his younger brother, Stannock, who was now King. Stannock also possessed the lovely Almere, and Tevron had the maid Mariette, chunky and crude, wedded to him because of a charm she had misused in pursuit of the dark prince. Life was easy in the outback. It wasn"t that. Tevron was the son of a king, though not the reigning king, and his inheritance had been snatched away from him by Stannock"
