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Dusk Peterson
Books in Order: 102 titles
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Empty Dagger Hand: Novel and Side Stories
Dolan is a quiet young man who spends his days working as a scribe. So why does he carry a hidden dagger?When Dolan's hidden life turns to disaster, he must make his way through a warring world of many enemies and few allies. Figuring out which men a...
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Law Links: Novel and Side Stories
Few events are more thrilling in a young man's life than a blood feud between two villages. Or so Adrian thought.Torn between affection toward his traditional-minded father and worship of his peace-loving, heretical priest, Adrian finds himself caugh...
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Season of Dangerous Peace
In a week's time, in every village and town in Koretia – even in the great capital city where the King's palace stood – Koretians would gather together to celebrate the New Year. There would be festive foods and drinks and the tossing of ...
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The Final Balance
'You asked whether you could do anything for me; now comes the moment when I must take up your offer.'Even the gods cannot foresee all consequences of a kept promise.When Adrian must decide whether to keep a promise, he knows that he might be tricked...
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God of Judgment
'I am taking a great risk in sending you there, but I think the information you are likely to obtain will be worth the risk. This means, though, that you will need to be doubly on your guard against capture, and you will need to be prepared for the c...
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God of Mercy
His sword went flying, nearly decapitating a bottom-ranked soldier who was leaning forward to watch better. The soldiers had been chatting lightly with one another throughout the fight; now silence fell like a corpse upon the crowd.Soldiers have rule...
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God of Vengeance
'But the gods ordained the blood feuds,' I said in confusion, pausing from my work, blade in hand. 'And the priests are the ones who bless the hunters.'He has pledged himself to the god of death. He doesn't realize what that means.As Adrian delves in...
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Famine or Feast
Have you ever heard of a place where the custom is for friends not to touch each other?He knows that friendship is a fundamental custom of all mankind. Or so he thinks, until his closest friend discovers a mysterious journal.This short story of frien...
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The Awakening
Barrett Boyd has awakened from death to a new and baffling life. He knows that he is a guard in the queendom's royal prison, the Eternal Dungeon. But why do the prisoners matters so much to him? Who are these other guards who appear to have claims ov...
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Liegeman's Service
On the other side of the postcard was a message from his liegeman: 'My research goes well here, sir. If I may be of further service, please let me know.' Nothing more. Nothing about him missing Pembroke. Nothing about him wishing Pembroke was there.&...
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Duties of a Second-Ranked Master
Trafford came first. Trafford was always going to come first, Davenham quickly gathered when he announced his intention to take a liegeman.Studying at boarding school is hard enough. Balancing the needs of your liege-master and liegeman is impossible...
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Hidden Blade
If I wasn't careful, I'd end up like them.His father is a dull farmer. His mother is a dull farmer's wife. He seems destined for a similarly dull life.But then a stranger appears in their village, and suddenly the talk is of soldiers and spies and se...
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Death Mask
For eighteen years, he has survived in an army unit where few soldiers live more than two or three years. Now he finds himself in circumstances where his life is a living hell. Will the soldier who defied death find that life is too great a challenge...
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Breached Boundaries
'I am placed under the care of the Unknowable God; I obey his commands, wherever they take me. But you may have need of the amulet to protect you against the Prince.'The boundaries of rank declare that Serva can be a princess or she can be a slave. B...
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Hell's Messenger
'Death did not hold the name then that he holds now.'In Mip's most notorious life prison, Death appears in a strange disguise.It had seemed for a while that the plan would work: a bold conspiracy by a group of idealistic prisoners and sympathetic gua...
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The Balance
'The Eternal Dungeon is my home now,' the High Seeker said. But as he spoke, he lifted his face and looked at the Vovimian carving, as a man might look at a beloved he must leave forever."The Seekers (torturers) in the Eternal Dungeon have always exp...
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Far Enough Away
He came down the mountain one early summer afternoon, toward the end of what had not yet been dubbed the Hydrogen War. He was just in time to catch the climax of the war."He knew he wasn't normal. Now he must save others who have been left behind. Fo...
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In Hot Water
He was the flame, and his love-mate was the kindling. To say they were mismatched was an understatement. He knew that it was only a matter of time before their relationship was tested. . Layle had simply not expected the test to be a pile of dirty di...
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The Eternal Dungeon
"All she needed to gather were the ingredients for the meal. This she tried to explain on one summer morning, standing by the outer dungeon's exit while confronting two guards who had their daggers pointed at her."Voluntarily incarcerated in a prison...
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Prison Food and Fondness
"All she needed to gather were the ingredients for the meal. This she tried to explain on one summer morning, standing by the outer dungeon's exit while confronting two guards who had their daggers pointed at her."Voluntarily incarcerated in a prison...
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Survival School
This is the right place for you, boy. They'll school you here to be a right-standing man, one who can keep control over his actions, like any good man should. You just got to keep yourself open to learn and to grow."How far can trust grow, when you'r...
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Commoners' Festival
The Eternal Dungeon is celebrating the Commoners' Festival, and all the elite are feasting. Including a man who is secretly a commoner.This short story of love and sacrifice can be read on its own or as a side story in The Eternal Dungeon, a speculat...
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The Shining Ones
He was skilled by now at making innocuous remarks in the presence of the Shining Ones. Nobody had even guessed that he knew what they were." The Eternal Dungeon is filled with prisoners who shine like the sun. No one knows this except Barrett Boyd, a...
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Sweet Blood
""Oh, Mercy and Hell. He would gladly allow himself to be flayed for eternity if he could thereby escape the responsibility of disciplining his love-mate for any future violations of the Code."The Eternal Dungeon has been split by"...
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The Abolitionist
The servants were scared stiff of him, and the masters were clearly uncertain what to say to a man who came from such an eccentric House. Nothing was different, nothing had changed. And yet everything had changed since Carr met a young foreigner who ...
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The True Master
Ledwin growled, 'I trust the slave is dead. The last thing our landstead needs are perverts wandering about causing trouble.'"In a society where the rank of master or slave defines every aspect of a person's being, what do you do when you're a master...
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Lord and Servant
For goodness' sake, what was Starke to do with a servant like this? Criminal background, no service training during his apprentice years, idling his time among tramps on the railroads. Starke suppressed a sigh."When you're a long way from home, you f...
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Mercy's Prisoner
'You have committed a vile and savage act, one that any other nation would punish with death. Our punishment, on the other hand, will only be to give you what you want. You have sought to live in a world without boundaries of civilization, and such a...
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Law of Vengeance
"For many years, I have wished to make a memoir of my life to pass on to future generations of Emorians who desire to learn what it means to have complete dedication to the Chara and his law. This is not to be the memoir I intended, but I find the ti...
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Night Shadow
That will be your death.A prince who could see beyond his borders but not see the people around him. . . . An enemy who would take any measure to get what he wanted. . . . And now a stranger has brought news to the prince of an approaching danger.You...
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Re-creation: gift for a slave
""He could not leave this room without his father's permission. And he could not imagine going to his father and saying, 'Please let me go gather moss so that my slave can have a proper New Year for once.'"What can you give a slav"...
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Right or Right
""He looked at Linnet, smiling as sweetly as though she had offered to buy the man's shop. 'Tell me,' said the shopkeeper, 'what caused you to leave your barony?'"Linnet is trouble. Everyone agrees about that. Driven from her nati"...
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In the Silence
""Images came, like flickers of a candle: Dark stones. Dark metal. Faint fire. A spoon in his hand, as someone urged him to eat. A stinking pit that he knew he was duty-bound to fill. A loom nearby that he vaguely remembered he had once known how to ...
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Fan Fiction Fan
A decade before e-books and self-publishing shook up the publishing industry, an author faced a dilemma: When you've written stories in a genre that is rarely published, what do you do? At the beginning of 2002, Dusk Peterson (a journalist, history w...
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Master and Servant
""Carr turned his head toward the water in time to see an Oyster Navy schooner dash round Bentley Point, hot in pursuit of the skipjacks. The cannon on the schooner's bow boomed."Born into a society with a strictly ranked system of masters and servan...
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Servant or Slave
Is service a privilege or a chain?Two young men face this question. Both live in the Dozen Landsteads, where life centers on the nation's Bay. One young man lives at the beginning of the twentieth century, the other in the sixteenth century. Both you...
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Coded Messages
""Sweet blood, Tom, sometimes I wonder at your innocence. Why do you think that your prisoners were sent to prison? It wasn't for lacing daisy chains."One of them rapes prisoners. The other wants to help prisoners. So why are they talking to each oth...
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The Consultation
'I can see why this place would suit you. Your conscience need no longer bother you.'"He has come from the Eternal Dungeon to offer his services to another prison's head torturer. The only trouble is that the head torturer likes him too much. Separat...
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A Prisoner Has Need
A mysterious prisoner. A chance to begin again. Reeling from a personal tragedy, Weldon Chapman is assigned what appears to be a clear-cut case of extracting a confession from a young man who has committed murder in front of dozens of witnesses. But ...
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Transformation
Every psychologist of our day knows the origin of transformation therapy, though many prefer not to speak of it. It is considered embarrassing to be forced to admit that your primary tool for curing patients was developed by a group of torturers."The...
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The Unanswered Question
He was weaponless. Or rather, not quite weaponless, for he knew what he was capable of doing with his body, but he bore no blade, nor any whip, nor any lead pipe with which to his with which to strangle the victim. The number of potential weapons he ...
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Bard of Pain
"The beginning of the end for him (or so it seemed at the time) came in the moment that he stepped into the shadow of Capital Mountain and was assaulted by a stranger." In the battle-weary lands of the Great Peninsula, only one fate is worse than bei...
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Debt Price
""He kept his gaze cast below the belt. In the chill cell, sweat was beginning to form now on his neck, running down his back and between his bound wrists. 'Lord,' he said softly, 'I would be glad to pay to you my debt in any way I can.'"No one would...
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Tops and Sops
Tops are worse, there's no doubt of that. While the sops are singing on about joy and love, the top is screaming in your ear that you'd better move your bloody bum faster or he'll smash your face in."The torturer was young, inexperienced, and lacking...
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Twists and Turns
'Sweet blood, no,' he whispered. 'Not now. Please, any time but now.'"Only the loyal presence of one man has kept him alive. Now that man's loyalty is about to be tested. In the queendom's royal prison, a young torturer is forced to choose between hi...
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The Three Lands: an omnibus of fantasy novels set in the Great Peninsula
Koretia, Emor, and Daxis were all founded on the same day, but as the centuries have passed, the Three Lands of the Great Peninsula have become increasingly divided by religion, government, and culture. Koretians worship many gods, Daxions worship...
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The Eternal Dungeon: a Turn-of-the-Century Toughs omnibus of historical fantasy novels
In the Queendom of Yclau lies an underground royal prison that embraces the worst of the past and the best of the future. The Eternal Dungeon is old-fashioned in its equipment and ahead of its time in its treatment of prisoners, seeking to put their ...
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Waterman: a Turn-of-the-Century Toughs omnibus of historical fantasy and retrofuture science fiction
Meredith is from the Eastern Shore of the Bay. Carr is from the Western Shore. .In an alternate universe where the New World was settled by the Old World in ancient times, by the twentieth century the Chesapeake Bay region has become a battleground f...
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Blood on the Blade
Sometimes I feel that Fenton is as mysterious as the gods, and that he is hiding something of vital importance from me. Something that would transform my life."He has pledged himself to the god of death. He doesn't realize what that means. As Adrian ...
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Journey to Manhood
Perhaps, when they spoke next, the other young man could tell Simmons of any masters here who were in need of an apprentice who was perilously close to the age of journeymanship." Simmons has been waiting all his life for the day when he would come o...
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Men and Lads
He twisted his head around to give a despairing look at the brakeman. Beyond him, the open boxcar door revealed that the train was presently making its way along a trestle over a steep ravine. If he jumped now, he would certainly end up dead at the b...
