《The Gates of Winter (The Last Rune, Book 5)》作者： - Mark Anthony 【EPUB】

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ALSO BY MARK ANTHONY Beyond the Pale The Keep of Fire The Dark Remains Blood of Mystery ABOUT THE AUTHOR MARKANTHONYlearned to love both books and mountains during childhood summers spent in a Colorado ghost town. Later he was trained as a paleoanthropologist but along the way grew interested in a different sort of human evolution—the symbolic progress reflected in myth and the literature of the fantastic. He undertook this project to explore the idea that reason and wonder need not exist in conflict. Mark Anthony lives and writes in Colorado, where he is currently at work on the next book of The Last Rune . Fans of The Last Rune can visit the website athttp://www.thelastrune.com . 1. It was the dead of winter when he reached Ar-tolor. Dusk was falling, and gold lights shone from the windows of the castle on the hill above, beckoning with the promise of crackling fires and steaming cups of wine. He could not remember the last time he had been warm—truly warm—and these last few leagues had been the coldest yet. His feet might as well have been lumps of stone, and despite the rags he had wrapped around them, his fingers were raw and bleeding. All he craved was to ride up to the gates and beg hospitality. Instead, he turned