Jason Shannon

The Hounds of Harujin Jason Shannon

When Kellan last saw Laura Cobie, she was a gangly, blue-haired teenager, a rebel without a cause, with a fresh smattering of pimples. Now, she's heir to an elite council of assassins. That is, if she can be found, and if she hasn't by now signed her name, and isn't warming a barbarian's bed.... The second ever female has been nominated to the Council, the elite group of advisers governing this quarter of the world - only she's a seventeen-year-old girl, sister to a beggar with a reputation for mistreating his concubines. Kaidu has set out for her - it's no longer a simple world of conquest of war, but one of political maneuvering, backstabbing, and closed-door deals. And now he's caught up in it, twisting continental politics, and prying a young woman away from her unstable mother.... And through the desert a young assassin inductee rides.... Episode 3 of 8.