Lady of Shadow

By S. M. Carrière

A nobleman's daughter becomes a slave in a strange land. Earning the title of 'lioness' she must learn to be strong in order to gain her freedom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: S. M. Carrière
• Release date: Jan 23, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301409303

S. M. Carrière

Born in 1983 in Quito, Ecuador, S.M. Carrière has lived in five countries around the world including Ecuador, Gabon and The Philippines. The family moved to Australia from The Philippines shortly after the commencement of hostilities there in 1989.After graduating High School, S.M. Carrière worked full time as an Office Junior at a law firm in Brisbane, Queensland before moving to Canada in 2001. In 2002 she began her academic career beginning in Criminology, but switching to Directed Interdisciplinary Studies (focusing on Perhistoric Anthropology and Archaeology) after her first year. She graduated with a B.A. Hon from Carleton University in 2007 with honours.It wasn't until well after graduation that writing found her. She hasn't looked back since.S.M. Carrière now resides in Canada with her two cats and a growing collection of books.

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Lady of Shadow

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S.M Carrière

First published 2010 by S.M. Carrière in The Dying God & Other Stories.

Smashwords edition published 2013.

Short stories Copyright © 2010 by S.M. Carrière.

All rights reserved. Published in Canada by S.M. Carrière and distributed by Smashwords.com.

This is a work of collected fiction. Places, characters, names and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons either living or dead, events or locations are entirely coincidental.

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Lady of Shadow

Scatha remembered when the Crimson Guard had come. There had been warnings from family across the channel that the crazed leader of the Guard had his eye on the sacred isle.

He had tried once before, but the island had ideas of her own, and his boats were shattered against her cliffs in a violent storm. There is only so much an island can do, however. The second attempt saw the Guard get through with only one third of their ships smashed.

The Crimson Guard marched through the island, burning the villages of the chieftains that refused to capitulate, raping the women, and slaying all the men and children. They said they were cleansing the island of the impure savages.

It was not the islanders who plundered