Darkest Autumn · Ambria
Heroes are supposed to be brave, aren't they?
Stories for the long way home.
Vetch is sixteen, a squire of Ambria, and he has a secret: he is afraid of battle. He would rather brush down his horse, Blue, and fill a basket with blackberries than draw a sword, and he has never told his two best friends how badly his hands shake before a fight.
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Darkest Autumn
Vetch is sixteen, a squire of Ambria, and he has a secret: he is afraid of battle. He would rather brush down his horse, Blue, and fill a basket with blackberries than draw a sword, and he has never told his two best friends how badly his hands shake before a fight.
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Brightest Winter
Vetch should be dead. The Dark Lord threw him off the wall above the Ambria River, and the river carried him to the land of the dead, where the line of souls shuffles toward judgment.
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Coldest Spring
Vetch is sixteen, a charity squire with no title and no sword of his own. He is also the only person in Ambria asking whether the Dark Lord has been telling the truth.
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Deadliest Summer
Vetch comes home an outlaw. The Lower Valley belongs to the Dark Lord, the survivors have gone to ground in the Wildernesse, and Ambria's mages have named Vetch and his friends traitors.
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- Book 1. Darkest Autumn Vetch is sixteen, a squire of Ambria, and he has a secret: he is afraid of battle. He would rather brush down his horse, Blue, and fill a basket with blackberries than draw a sword, and he has never told his two best friends how badly his hands shake before a fight.
- Book 2. Brightest Winter Vetch should be dead. The Dark Lord threw him off the wall above the Ambria River, and the river carried him to the land of the dead, where the line of souls shuffles toward judgment.
- Book 3. Coldest Spring Vetch is sixteen, a charity squire with no title and no sword of his own. He is also the only person in Ambria asking whether the Dark Lord has been telling the truth.
- Book 4. Deadliest Summer Vetch comes home an outlaw. The Lower Valley belongs to the Dark Lord, the survivors have gone to ground in the Wildernesse, and Ambria's mages have named Vetch and his friends traitors.
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