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Once a month, we are spotlighting a Tor book that will soon become available in paperback. Today, we’re featuring opens in a new windowHeritage of Cyador by L.E. Modesitt, Jr., publishing November 3rd.
Scarcely a year after the events of opens in a new windowCyador’s Heirs, Lerial uses his mastery of competing natural forces to shape his world — and utterly destroy an Afritan military force — in opens in a new windowHeritage of Cyador by New York Times bestselling author L.E. Modesitt. Five years later, Lerial is now an overcaptain and field commander of Cigoerne’s Mirror Lancers, and must lead a delicate mission into Afrit, reopening wounds that never truly healed.
Chapter One
Lerial looks up from the half-written report before him, thinking, Saltaryn, if you only knew how all your efforts to improve my writing with precise statements are being corroded by the requirements of being post captain. Then he concentrates on the words he has just written.
… the Afritan Guard continues to patrol the top of the ridge one kay north of Ensenla. They occasionally stray across the marked boundary. They do not stay on the south side of the boundary for long, and they refrain from crossing when a Mirror Lancer force larger or roughly equivalent to the Afritan force is present …