Jason Shannon

The Hounds of Harujin Jason Shannon

Adelaide lies in ruin. Desolate, abandoned, razed - Irbis has seen, for the first time, the awful truth. Yet even the mountain of bones is not the full story. It was not pirates that slew Belgutei's wife and child, but Tamerlan, acting on a crazed prophecy, foretold by the Red Raven. Irbis, having survived bandits, is now stuck, alone, in the black hole that was once the second city of the Ulus.... Her sister, meanwhile, has also escaped bandits. Fleeing worms and rapers in the desert, Courtenay has made it back to civilization - the small roadhouse town of Border Village. Now she heads west, not north, towards the nearest Concubinage office - but she's not out of the woods yet... And, as the khanate's newest Council member slowly makes her way across the continent, Case has special designs on her.... Episode 6 of 8.