

The spring… Chapter Thirteen THE ROYAL ENGINEER WATCHED THE water pouring through the sluice… Chapter Fourteen IN EPHRATA, ATTOLIA SAT RELAXED on the large chair on… Chapter Fifteen ATTOLIA TURNED TO LOOK AT him, where he kneeled watching… Chapter Sixteen THE STEPS LEADING UP FROM the beach were cut into… Chapter Seventeen EUGENIDES DIDN’T NOTICE WHO HELPED him up. When he woke, his… Chapter Eight SPRING CAME EARLIER ON THE coast than it did in… Chapter Nine THE HUNTING RETREAT WAS A summer home for the rulers… Chapter Ten THE MORNING AFTER HE AND the queen returned from their… Chapter Eleven THE COUNTRY OF EDDIS PRAYED, and as if in answer,… Chapter Twelve IT TOOK TIME TO PREPARE for Eugenides’s plan.


Contents Chapter One HE WAS ASLEEP, BUT WOKE at the sound of the… Chapter Two DAYS PASSED BEFORE NEWS OF the arrest reached the valleys… Chapter Three EUGENIDES STOOD IN HIS CELL with his shoulders against the… Chapter Four THE QUEEN OF EDDIS STOOD in the courtyard to meet… Chapter Five THE EARLY FALL IN THE mountains had already come when… Chapter Six AS THE WINTER PASSED, HE forced himself to get up… Chapter Seven IN THE MORNING EUGENIDES SLEPT late.
