Kelwyn Grayson is just one more faceless runaway on the streets of Tower City. Among elves, gnolls, and dragons, one winged boy fades into the background of life in the Eternal Kingdom.  But when he cuts the purse of the handsome were-lion Harun Rashid, he finds himself dragged out of the crowd.<br><br>Rather than a cell, however, Harun offers a helping hand to set Kelwyn on the road to a respectable, peaceful life ... if he could just bring himself to stop flirting shamelessly with Harun, keep his sticky fingers to himself, and avoid bringing the wrath of a powerful, mad vampire down on his head.<br><br>But even faced with Kelwyn's death -- or undeath -- Harun will not give up on him, and Kelwyn will not give up on finding his way to sharing that peaceful life with Harun.  Two men, love, and magic are bound and determined to find their way to their shared dream of a future -- and family.

Blood and Fire

They had a long way to go to get to the badlands yet. This was their second day of travel, and it would take almost a week. They had passed through the fields and farmland around the Tower yesterday, and the forest that lay south of that. Now they were winding their way amid a region of rocky hills that would eventually let out into more farmland, in a warmer, drier valley to the south, which grew a large portion of the kingdom’s crops. Beyond that the land dried out further, turning to a barren desert of rock and scrub, which stretched for hundreds and hundreds of miles, with the vast, fertile river valleys of Brisal on the other side.


Chapter 57