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In the King's Service

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2003
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Deryni (Fictitious characters) - Fiction
Fantasy fiction
Gwynedd (Imaginary place) - Fiction
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Prologue - Set not thy heart upon goods unjustly gotten; for they shall not profit thee in the day of calamity.  -Ecclesiasticus 5:8
1 - Is it not a grief unto death, when a companion and friend is turned to a enemy?  -Eccesiasticus 37:2
2 - Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy faters have set.  -Proverbs 22:28
3 - Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.  -Job 21:32
4 - If children live honestly, and have wherewithal, they shall cover the baseness of their parents.  -Eccesiasticus 22:9
5 - Without councel purposes are disappointed; but in the multitude of counselors they are established.  -Proverbs 15:22
6 - Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.  -Eccesiasticus 7:24
7 - Hast thou saughters?  Have a care of their body, and show not thyself cheerful toward them.  -Eccesiasticus 7:24
8 - The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.  -I Timothy 5:2
9 - Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.  -Jeremiah 6:16
10 - Hear councel, and receive instruction.  -Proverbs 19:20
11 - Though shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.  -Isaiah 62:3
12 - Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.  -Isaiah 3:25
13 - Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.  -James 4:9
14 - Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father.  -Genesis 50:5
15 - And ye shall read this book which we have sent unto you.  -Baruch 1:14
16 - Then shall the lame man leap as an hart...  -Isaiah 35:6
17 - So they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.  -Micah 2:2
18 - Hast thou children?  Instruct them, and bow down their neck from their youth.  -Eccesiasticus 7:23
19 - Wrath is cruel, and and is outrageous, but who is able to stand before envy?  -Proverbs 27:4
20 - May choirs of angels receive thee...  -Introit for the Funeral Liturgy
21 - Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.  -Proverbs 26:26
22 - The Lord hath set at naught all my mighty men in the midst of me.  -Lamentations 1:15
23 - And he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fahters.  -II Chronicles 35:24
24 - He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.  -Job 20:24
25 - A wise man shall promote himself to honor with his words, and he that hath understanding will please great men.  -Eccesiasticus 20:27
26 - For I was my fahter's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.  -Proverbs 4:3
27 - Blame not before thou hast examined the truth; understand first, and then rebuke.  -Eccesiasticus 11:7
28 - He shall direct his counsel and knowledge, and in his secrets shall he meditate.  -Eccesiasticus 39:7
29 - Marry thy daughter, and so shall thou have performed a weighty matter, but give her to a man of understanding.  -Eccesiasticus 7:25
Epilogue - Before I formed them in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I santified thee.... -Jeremiah 1:5
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 Deryni*
#14 of 16

 Childe Morgan
#1 of 3
Childe Morgan     See series as if on a bookshelf
A series within the Deryni world.

1) In the King's Service
2) Childe Morgan
3) The King's Deryni
Copyright © 2003 by Katherine Kurtz
With Love and Thanks to
Andre Norton,
Great Lady of Many Wondrous Tales
"I hear that you have a son at last," Dominy de Laney said to Sir Sief MacAthan, as she settled beside him at the heavy, eight-sided table in the Camberian Council's secret meeting chamber.
May contain spoilers
What he might become, only time would tell.
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Added: 06-Aug-2019
Last Updated: 11-Dec-2023

Publications

 28-Dec-2004
Ace
Mass Market Paperback
In my libraryOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
28-Dec-2004
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$7.99
Pages*:
355
Internal ID:
33342
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-441-01209-4
ISBN-13:
978-0-441-01209-1
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Daniel M Davis - Graphic Design
Kristin Del Rosario - Interior Text Design
Ann Dupuis - Graphic Design
James A Fox-Davis - Graphic Design
Martine Lynch - Graphic Design
Pyrographx - Cover Design
Matt Stawicki  - Cover Artist
"At her best Kurtz's love of history lets her do things with her characters and their world that no nonhistorian could hope to do." - CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

This is a tale of an earlier time in the kingdom of Gwynedd, a time before the magical Deryni were persecuted as evil beings, before they were hounded nearly out of existence, before those of Deryni blood feared to let it be known.

"Exquisitely detailed." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

In those days, the Deryni Council took a hand in the affairs of state, albeit secretly.  There were Deryni at court and some of the lords of the land claimed Deryni heritage.

"A vital continuation to the saga." -BOOKLIST

But the king, Donal Haldane, ruled over all with a casual ruthlessness.  He expected much of himself, as a ruler, as a warrior, and as the father of future kings.  And he expected the same of those in his service - human and Deryni alike - in spite of the web of royal intrigue that threatened to ensnare them all...

"[A] great Deryni tale." -THE BEST REVIEWS
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Notes and Comments:
Ace hardcover edition / November 2003
Ace mass market edition / January 2005
First printing based on the number line
Canada: $10.99

Includes:
Appendix I: Index of Characters
Appendix II: Index of Places

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Author(s)

 Katherine Kurtz
Birth: 18 Oct 1944 Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Notes:
From About the Author in Bishop's Heir:

Katherine Kurtz was awarded a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Miami and attended medical school for a year before deciding she would rather write about medicine than practice it.  She earned an M.A. in medieval English history from UCLA while writing her first two novels, and worked as an instructional designer for the Los Angeles Police Academy for the next ten years.  She is also a professionally trained hypnotist, an avid horsewoman, and an avowed cat person.  She has a husband who wears kilts, a ten-year-old son named Cameron, a vintage Bentley motorcar once owned by HRH the Duke of Kent, and hopes soon to live in a castle in Ireland.  Besides the Deryni Trilogy, the Camber Trilogy, and several short stories set in the Deryni universe, she has recently published a World War II thriller, Lammas Night, dealing with magic worked to keep Hitler from invading England in the summer of 1940.  She is currently at work on the second and third books of the Histories of King Kelson, with at least two more trilogies planned.

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