February 2nd, 2011

This is a first for me. I’ve resisted until now, but feel it is the right time to add them. Now that they’re done, I think they add an awful lot to the book.

PROLOGUE

PART I: GUILE’S DUST

1. AN ERRAND GONE ASTRAY
2. BORROWED PROMISES
3. A SECRET PATH
4. THE TRIAL
5. THE JUDGMENT
6. HUNTED
7. TRAVELERS
8. FEVERED VISIONS
9. THE STONE
10. DARKNESS OF HANTERNOS
11. NOTHING TO HOLD ONTO
12. THE NIGHT OF DECISIONS

PART II: SHACKLE’S POWER

13. THE STRANGERS
14. A GIFT AND A PROPHECY
15. TOUCHING FIRE
16. STANDING STRONG
17. A CHANGE OF PLANS
18. THE GALOW GOLM
19. THINGS FORGOTTEN
20. PHANTOMS REMEMBERED
21. WHISPERED SECRETS
22. HIDDEN PLANS
23. REVELATIONS OF THE HEART
24. THE ARCH DRUID

PART III: BLADE’S EDGE

25. THE HIGH KING
26. THE MOST CHERISHED GIFT
27. THE BLADE STRIKES
28. OATHS UNTAKEN
29. MYSTERIES UNBIDDEN
30. ADVICE UNHEEDED
31. THE WORDS OF THE STONE
32. THE SECRETS OF THE TOWER
33. THE PLOTS OF MEN
34. BELTAYNE
35. A DANGER UNFORESEEN
36. AN END UNIMAGINED
37. A LAMENT UNSPOKEN
38. HAMMER AND STONE
39. THE FORGE OF SUFFERING
40. THE SURRENDERED LIFE

EPILOGUE

One interesting detail is that chapter 38 contains the original name for MERLIN’S BLADE … yes that’s right, the book was going to be called HAMMER & STONE. I like the new title better, but it was fun to bring the old one back as a chapter title!