It was the Master, called Malacai, who collected the gifted children.
He purchased them in the plain light of day, else stole them from their beds in the dead of night. He took them to the Blackstone, and there taught them the art of murder. He schooled them in the precepts of power and honed their physical gifts so they would thrive as his assassins—his little daggers.
But now the Master is gone, and the children in the Blackstone remain. The guards are becoming nervous. As well they should; the children have grown, in power and in all other ways. And they learned their lessons all too well.
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NINE DAGGERS is a dark fantasy saga of the price of redemption. It tells a tale of just retribution and savage revenge; of friendships won true, and of bitter envy, too; it sings of love and of loss. It takes place in the Otherrealm—that shadowed, secret place just beyond the edge of your mirror—and spans a period of fifteen years.
Come join me, and we will walk this oft cruel, crooked path together.
– The Author
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