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    Glamour of the God-Touched: Saga of the God-Touched Mage, #1
    Glamour of the God-Touched: Saga of the God-Touched Mage, #1
    Glamour of the God-Touched: Saga of the God-Touched Mage, #1
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    Glamour of the God-Touched: Saga of the God-Touched Mage, #1

    By Ron Collins

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    A mage's apprentice.

    Sorcerers on the hunt.

    Unnatural magic of devastating power.

    Garrick is a mage’s apprentice, soon to be a full-fledged sorcerer. The course of his life is clear—he will be an apprentice, a mage, and then a superior. But a tragic accident finds him wielding a god-like power over life and death, and as rumors of mage war grow stronger around him, he learns his future is not fated to be as simple as he dreamed. Glamour of the God-Touched follows Garrick as he discovers the forces behind his new magic. The lessons he learns and how he deals with them will threaten the very nature of who he is.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyfox Publishing
    Release dateOct 25, 2016
    ISBN9781540115126
    Glamour of the God-Touched: Saga of the God-Touched Mage, #1
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    Ron Collins

    Ron Collins's work has appeared in Asimov's, Analog, Nature, and several other magazines and anthologies. His writing has received a Writers of the Future prize and a CompuServe HOMer Award. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and has worked developing avionics systems, electronics, and information technology.

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      Glamour of the God-Touched - Ron Collins

      Glamour of the God-Touched

      A riveting tale of magic and death, of destiny and the power inherent in the choices we make, Glamour of the God-Touched is as thought-provoking as it is gripping. Ron Collins is a wonderful writer and a spellbinding storyteller.

      David B. Coe/D.B. Jackson, author of the Thieftaker Chronicles

      Glamour of the God-Touched

      The Saga of the God-Touched Mage includes:

      Glamour of the God-Touched

      Trail of the Torean

      Target of the Orders

      Gathering of the God-Touched

      Pawn of the Planewalker

      Changing of the Guard

      Lord of the Freeborn

      Lords of Existence

      Other Work by Ron Collins:

      Five Magics

      Picasso’s Cat and Other Stories

      See the PEBA on $25 a Day

      Chasing the Setting Sun

      Four Days in May

      Links to these and more of Ron's work

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      Copyright Information

      Glamour of the God-Touched

      Saga of the God-Touched Mage, Volume 1

      copyright 2014 Ron Collins

      All rights reserved.

      Cover Design by Rachel J. Carpenter

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      copyright 2014 Ron Collins

      All rights reserved.

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      copyright Artranq | Dreamstime.com - Guy In A Black Robe Photo

      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All incidents, dialog, and characters are products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

      Skyfox Publishing

      http://www.skyfoxpublishing.com

      For Tim, Mike, Jackie, and Ken. And of course, for Lisa.

      Table of Contents

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      Prologue

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Epilogue

      Appendix

      Acknowledgements

      About Ron Collins

      How You Can Help

      Prologue

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      There was so much Garrick did not know about himself.

      He didn’t know where he was born. He didn’t know everywhere he had lived—though his earliest memories included a long journey in a rickety wagon. Garrick couldn’t remember if his mother had always been angry, or if she had just been worn down by the never ending stream of burdens put upon her by those she worked so hard to serve.

      He remembered sleeping in dirty alleys and drinking milk cut by rain water. He remembered a blur of boarding houses, shopkeepers, and manors.

      He knew that, when he was perhaps six years old, his mother had finally given up and sold him to Baron Alzo Fahid, a jeweler in Dorfort. Fahid was a loud man with a wicked reliance on drink. He beat Garrick whenever his business lost money, he beat Garrick whenever his mistresses complained about the grime of their work spaces, he beat Garrick—it seemed—whenever the wind shifted to the north. But Fahid was also a gambler and, as gamblers will do, he eventually came to owe a Torean mage named Alistair compensation. In the time it took the men to nod their heads, Garrick was consigned to the mage's manor.

      At first Alistair’s home had seemed a dark and evil place.

      And Garrick found that Alistair’s forms of discipline—being made of arduous tasks such as scrubbing the floors or cleaning Alistair’s beakers and flasks to make them ready for tomorrow’s castings—were longer, harder, and arguably far more painful than the baron’s simple beatings.

      The mage superior proved a patient master, though, and Garrick grew to appreciate both the solitude and the structure of a Torean mage’s life. A wizard was intruded upon only when a client needed to boost harvest, mend an unmendable, or scry whatever was needed to be known about a lover, an enemy, or even the occasional ally.

      As he grew older, Garrick saw how Alistair maintained an air of mystery about himself that was thick enough to ensure the rest of Adruin would leave him alone. Garrick liked that. He enjoyed that Alistair created anxiety in his clientele—the idea that he could master something so difficult for others to comprehend that they would steer clear of him just to avoid dealing with it. It made him feel unique. It made him feel like he understood things

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