another MASK OF SWORD excerpt

Mazael Cravenlock and Adalar Greatheart have both previously been POV characters in the DEMONSOULED series. Sigaldra of the Jutai is a new character, so let’s have a short snippet from her POV:

“He is not going to marry my sister,” spat Sigaldra. “He wanted to kill us all in the middle lands. He will marry Liane over my dead body.”

“I suspect,” said Talchar, “that he would prefer it that way.”

“Why I can’t I simply marry you?” said Sigaldra.

Liane made a choking noise, her eyes widening.

“Well, you are young and pretty and thirty years younger than I am,” said Talchar, “so I can’t say I would object. My wife might, though, and she would express that displeasure by feeding us both to her dogs.” Sigaldra could believe it. Talchar’s wife Kuldura had survived the Malrags and the exodus and the runedead, all while raising eight sons, and Sigaldra had once seen the woman beat a Malrag to death with a cast-iron pan.

-JM