Shadows Return: The Nightrunner Series, Book 4

Lynn Flewelling

Jun 2008 · Nightrunner Book 4 · Sold by Spectra

About this ebook

With their most treacherous mission yet behind them, heroes Seregil and Alec resume their double life as dissolute nobles and master spies. But in a world of rivals and charmers, fate has a different plan.…

After their victory in Aurënen, Alec and Seregil have returned home to Rhíminee. But with most of their allies dead or exiled, it is difficult for them to settle in. Hoping for diversion, they accept an assignment that will take them back to Seregil’s homeland. En route, however, they are ambushed and separated, and both are sold into slavery. Clinging to life, Seregil is sustained only by the hope that Alec is alive.

But it is not Alec’s life his strange master wants—it is his blood. For his unique lineage is capable of producing a rare treasure, but only through a harrowing process that will test him body and soul and unwittingly entangle him and Seregil in the realm of alchemists and madmen—and an enigmatic creature that may hold their very destiny in its inhuman hands…. But will it prove to be savior or monster?

Ratings and reviews

This is third installment in a wonderful fantasy series. It's hard to find great works of literature featuring gay protagonists (I'm glad I found this series!) A wonderful thing about this series, though, is the fact that everyone, including straight people, will enjoy reading it. Give it a shot. If you wish to read them in order, the first installment is Luck in the Shadows. I highly recommend this series!

Such an engaging and inclusive world. Lynn is the only author I make sure to check and see if anything new is out so I can get it as soon as possible. Great that it's out on google now! Luck in the shadows...

This book is my favorite of the series so far. The storytelling, the characters, their love, their suffering it all combines to a beautiful fantasy epic and i can't wait to see what's next!

About the author

Lynn Fleweling was born in Presque Isle, Maine, which—contrary to common assumption—is not an island. She received her undergraduate from the University of Maine at Presque Isle, where she majored in English, minored in History, and received a teaching certificate she had no intention of ever using. Since then, she has studied literature, veterinary medicine, ancient Greek among other things, and worked as a necropsy technician, a house painter, an office worker, a freelance editor, a freelance journalist (www.sff.net/people/Lynn.Flewelling/OtherWritings.html), and yes, even as a teacher now and then, an instructor of workshops—on creativity and fiction writing.