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The Prophecy of the Yubriy Tree (The Song of the Burning Heart, #1)
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The Deer King (The Deer King, #1)
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2018
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Many Savage Moons
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The Brick Mason's Sons
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2015
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Temperance Unraveling
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2011
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The Sundering (The Deer King, #2)
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2019
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Last of the Baronites (The Deer King, #3)
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2019
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Last Performance at the Three Dragons Inn
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“Usually, she existed for him as a celestial body hanging from the heavens, bright but stationary, too distant to truly be known. But all at once she was burning across the frame. He watched her approach with a reverent awe. Her hair, still cosmic black, looked like a waterfall poured from the night sky.”
― Many Savage Moons
― Many Savage Moons
“Death was desperately wanting to say good-bye, only to find the god damning you to die disobliging. Death was the hot bite of cold steel. Death was the distance from the moon to the earth. Death was the waiting. The wondering.
Life was waking in your own bed.”
― Many Savage Moons
Life was waking in your own bed.”
― Many Savage Moons
“He thought that she looked like Winter; meaning both the girl he had once known and the season. He had always believed that winter's beauty deepened further into the season, when the memory of fall and the promise of spring were stripped away and there was nothing to do but accept the day-in, day-out reality of what winter entailed. This was what he thought when he looked at her: that the embattled woman before him was a wonder to behold, and, as much as he wished he might have spared her the pain of the last eleven years, it contributed to her spellbinding presence.”
― Many Savage Moons
― Many Savage Moons

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