More Side By Side Fun: UK & (New) US Covers — “Daughter Of Blood”
For this week’s fun I’ve been running The Wall Of Night series covers side by side, with an excerpt from t’books thrown in for extra fantastica — doubly so for Daughter Of Blood since today’s extract should be completely “new to you.” 🙂
The Heir of Night was up Monday and The Gathering Of The Lost featured Wednesday — but he-er-rre’s Daughter Of Blood:
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In The Ship’s Prow House
“As the door closed behind them, his captor spoke another, indecipherable word and Faro’s rigid body went limp. The man shoved him away at the same time, and he collapsed in a sprawl of arms and legs, gasping for breath. Running footsteps sounded, then came to an abrupt halt. Still sucking in breath, Faro peered up at the new arrivals: an elderly servant, and a much younger man with dark shoulder-length hair and an ascetic expression.
“This is an outrage,” the servant began, but his voice was shaking.
Don’t be a fool, old man, Faro thought. The three who had entered the house with him said nothing, but the dark-haired man sank to his knees, dragging the old man down with him.
“Prince Aranraith,” he husked, as though his mouth was as dry as Faro’s. “You honor this house.” He bowed forward until his forehead touched the floor, and after a moment’s hesitation the old man, clearly bewildered, did the same. Faro lay absolutely still, aware that this hall, too, had grown cold. He was trying to breathe shallowly, but he could see the air misting just past his lips.
All three strangers lifted back their hoods—and Faro stifled a cry, because now he could see why the tallest man’s hood had moved. He closed his eyes, hoping that he had fallen asleep in the temple porch and when he looked again the nightmare would be gone. But the stranger was still there, a powerfully built man in gold-washed black mail, with long coils of hair falling down his back. Except that the coils were not hair at all, but a sinuous twist of blue-black snakes, their forked tongues a perpetual flicker about the stranger’s head and shoulders.
Nauseated, Faro screwed his eyelids shut again, but his heart still hammered painfully and he had to fight to control his trembling. Outside, the rain began to drum.”
~ from © Daughter Of Blood, The Wall of Night Book Three
Ace! Love the ‘Daughter…’ cover 🙂 (both of them, but the AU/NZ one best)
Hey, glad you like Ashley. 🙂