Chapter 1: Crossing
Cadoc and his men make the perilous crossing home after a year of fighting in a brutal crusade.
Cadoc's Contract
A veteran returns home after a disastrous year on crusade. Weary of war and death he hopes to make amends for abandoning his kin, yet a dark secret shadows his every step.
Would you take a hundred lives to save your own?
Cadoc wanted more than the life of a simple farmer. So, when Artur, Duke of Kas Mendoc raised his banner, Cadoc answered the call, marching south to enlist in a great crusade against the Oskoi. He travels to a distant land and carves his name into the bodies of the dead.
Yet Cadoc has a secret, a contract made with the gods to give him the strength he needs to survive this bloody war. One hundred souls – a debt of blood to a hungry god. But disaster strikes, and Cadoc flees for his life. Can he face the men he left behind and account for those he killed? Has he paid his debt, or was his soul part of the price?
Cadoc's Contract is the prelude to The Lords of Skeinhold, a dark and sensual fantasy series set in a vibrant world. The story is set six years before The Weaver's Boy.
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Chapter 2: Lair
Cadoc's remembers his ill-fated bargain with the bwgal.
Chapter 3: Tally
Cadoc buries the dead, and remembers those he killed.
Chapter 4: Skelgard
With their journey almost at an end, Cadoc hire out as caravan guards with the help of a mysterious Venyk priest.
Chapter 5: Caravan
While meandering along the Prince's Highway, Cadoc comes to the aid of a high-born Venyk woman bound for Kas Mendoc.
Chapter 6: Kas Mendoc
Cadoc and his men find a moment's respite in the keep of Kas Mendoc.
Chapter 7: Reckoning
Home in Skeinhold at last, Cadoc faces the ultimate reckoning for a bargain paid in the blood of the fallen.
Chapter 8: Ashes
A funeral, and another bargain.
Chapter 9: Beginnings
As Cadoc accepts the mantel of Lord of Skeinhold, fate intervenes once again.